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THE
LETTERS AND JOURNALS
OF
ROBERT BAILLIE, A.M.
PEINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.
M.DC.XXXVIL— MDC.LXII.
IN THREE VOLUMES.
VOLUME THIRD.
EDINBURGH: M.DCCC.XLIL
EDINBURGH: ALEX. LAURIE fc CO. PRINTERS TO HER MAJESTY.
THE LIBRARY
UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
LETTERS AND JOURNALS OF MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.
1647. Page
Letter to Mr. William Spang, 26th January, . . . 1
to the fame, (Poftfcript), 2d June, . . ''. . 5
to Sir Archibald Johnftone of Wariflon, 2d June, . k 6
from Theodore Haak, Efq. (without date,) * ', (, " . 7
to Mr. William Spang, 13th July, . . ' .'" 9
His Speech in the Generall Aflembly, Edinburgh, 6th Auguft, . 10
Letter to a Friend in Kilwinning, 20th Auguft, . . . 14
to Mr. William Spang, 1ft September, . . .16
to his Noble and good Friend Poloni Alman, (the Earl of
Lauderdaill), 13th October, . . f/ero . 22
to Mr. William Spang, 13th October, '. * .v -,V •< 23
1648.
Letter to a Worftiipfull Knight [Sir Daniel Carmichael,] 8th March, 24
to Mr. William Spang, 2?th March, . . rfz < 31
to Mr. Zachary Boyd, (without date,) . . < J 42
to Mr. Matthew Brifbane, (without date,) . /)$ .< 43
to Mr. William Spang, 26th June, . . . <; 43
to the fame, 23d Auguft, . . .50
i? TABLE OF CONTENTS.
1649.
Letter to Mr. William Spang, 7th February,
from the fame, 7th March, 67
from the fame, 9-19th March, 71
from the fame, 19th March,
Baillie's Speech to King Charles the Second, at the Hague, 27th March, 84
The Commiffioners Letter to the Commiffion of the Aflembly, 3d April, 86
Letter to Mr. Robert Douglas, 3d April,
to the fame, 17th April, . 89
to Mr. William Spang, 14th September, 90
to Captain Titus, 7th September, . 102
to George Wynrame, Lord Libberton, 7th September, 102
to Gisbertus Voetius, Idibus Septembris, 103
1650.
Letter from Mr. Robert Blair, 29th July, . 105
to [Mr. Chriftopher Love ?] 20th December, . ^. 105
to Mr. David Dickfon, 18th November, . . / . 108
to Mr. Robert Douglas, 18th November, V" ./' 109
to Scoutmaifler Buchan, (without date,) . . . 110
1651.
Letter to Mr. David Dickfon and Mr. William Spang, 2d January, 110
The Commiflion's confolatory Letter to Edinburgh, 7th January, 130
Letter to Mr. David Dickfon, 8th March, ?.-.. . .131
- to Mr. Robert Douglas, 10th March, . . 134
- to the King and the Eftates of Parliament, 10th March, . 135
- to the Earl of Balcarras, (without date), . . 136
- to Mr. John Smith, &c. 21ft March, ;<' , * . 137
-to the Earl of Lauderdaill, llth March, v. . 138
- to Mr. James Blair, llth March, . > „ .., 149
- to Mr. Robert Douglas, (without date,) „. 141
to the fame, 4th April, ,Vu« >,.. ••-. 142
to Mr. Andrew Ker, 4th April, . . •?-.. 145
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Letter to John Reid (the Earl of Lauderdaill), 4th April,
from Mr. James Durhame to George Lockhart, Rector of the
Univerfity of Glafgow, 31ft March, . . 148
to Mr. James Durhame, (without date,) . 149
to Mr. Andrew Ker, (without date,) . . . 153
to the Earl of Balcarras, (without date,) . . . 154
to Mr. Robert Douglas, (without date,) . . 155
His Supplication to George Lockhart, Rector of the Univerfity, 156
His Proteftation againft Mr. James Durhame's intrufion, 7th April, 158
Letter to the Earl of Balcarras, l?th April, . 160
Information of the Caufes of the Tumult at Glafgow, &c. 30th April, 161
Information to Mr. George Young, (in May,) 163
Letter to Mr. Robert Douglas, 22d April, . . 165
to John or William Reid, (the Earls of Lauderdaill and Bal
carras,) 3d May, ... 166
to Mr. Andrew Ker, 2d May, . . :/, .; . 167
to Mr. Robert Douglas, 6th May, . . r. 169
to the Earl of Lauderdaill, 6th May, . ... . 170
to the fame, 12th May, . . ;, . . 172
1652.
Letter to Mr. David Dickfon, 24th February, . 173
from Mr. Robert Blair, 23d March, . - , .;, . 174
to the fame, 1ft April, . . 175
to Mr. James Wood, 1ft April, 176
to the fame, 1ft April, . 177
to Mr. Robert Douglas and Mr. John Smith, 8th April, . 179
to Mr. James Wood, 8th April, . 181
to Mr. Robert Ker, 8th April, . 182
— to the fame, 25th April, . . . . .182
Mr. James Durhame's Overtures for Union, (without date,) 185
Letter to Mr. James Wood, 4th June, 186
to Mr. Robert Ker, 4th June, . .188
to Mr. David Dickfon, 4th June, . . . 189
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Page
Letter to Mr. Robert Ker, 7th June, 189
to Mr. James Durhame, 8th July, 190
to Mr. David Dickfon, 8th July, . 193
Keafons of Proteft at the Prefbytery of Glafgow, 7th July, 194
Letter to Mr. James Durhame, llth July, 195
from Baillie, Young, and Blair, to the fame, llth July, 195
to Mr. Rous, 20th Auguft, . . 197
to Mr. James Wood, 10th December, . . .199
1653.
Letter to Correfpondents with the Preibytery of Glafgow, 3d January, 202
1 to Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, January, ... 203
to Mr. James Durhame, (without date,) . . 203
- to Mr. Calamy and others at London, 21ft January, . 204
- from the Preibytery of Glafgow to the Englifh Commiflioners for
Vifiting the Univerfities, 8th February, . . 205
- from the EngliOi Commiflioners, 1ft February, . . 206
to the fame, 10th February, .... 207
- to the Ian H-, 10th February; .... 208
- from the fame, 10th February, . . . 209
- to Mr. David Dickfon, 10th February, . . . 209
- to Mr. Robert Ker, 10th February, . . 211
- to Mr. James Wood, 10th February, . . . . 212
- to the fame, 14th February, ... 212
Inftruclions to Mr. George Young, 8th April, . . 214
Letter to Mr. Robert Douglas, 8th April, . . 218
- to Mr. David Dickfon, 28th April, . . 219
- to Mr. Mungo Law, (without date,) . 220
- to Mr. Rodgers's Mother-in-law, 2d May, . '' . 221
- to Mr. David Dickfon, 21ft May, . . 222
- to Mr. Richard Robertfon, 26th July, . . 223
from the fame, (without date,) , . 223
- to Mr. Edmund Calamy, 27th July, . 224
to Mr. Samuel Clarke, 27th July, . . 226
TABLE OF CONTENTS. vii
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Letter to Dr. Lazarus Seaman, 8th October, . . 227
from Mr. John Vauch, llth November, . . 228
from the Earl of Lauderdaill, 17th December, . 230
Letter to Mr. William Taylor, 19th December, . . i 231
The Materials for a Prefbyteriall Warning, . 232
1654.
Letter to the Earl of Lauderdaill, 10th February, . . 234
to Mr. Jeremiah Whittaker, 10th February, . . 235
to Mr. James Ferguffon, 8th March, . . 236
to Mr. William Spang, 19th July, . . . 237
to the fame, (Poftfcript), 21ft July, . . .253
to Mr. John Young, (without date,) . . . 259
from the Earl of Lauderdaill, 14th March, . . 265
to Mr. Thomas Fuller, 22d Auguft, . . .265
to Gifbertus Voetius, Idibus Septembris, . . . 267
1655.
Letter from Gifbertus Voetius, Eid. Aprilis, . . • 270
to Mr. James Hamilton, 8th October, . . . . 275
to Mr. William Spang, (without date), '* . . 277
to the fame, (Poftfcript), lft-31ft December, . . 294
to Mr. Simeon Alhe, 31ft December, . ... . 302
1656.
Letter from Mr. Simeon Alhe, (without date), . . . 306
from Mr. Edmund Calamy, (without date,) . . 307
to Mr. James Hamilton, 21ft January, .... 308
to Mr. James Cranford, 27th Auguft, . . . 309
to Mr. William Spang, 1ft September, . . . 311
to Mr. Francis Rous, 6th September, . . . 325
to Mr. James Wood, 8th December, . . . 326
vlii TABLE OF CONTENTS.
1657.
Letter to Mr. Aflie or Mr. Calamy, 12th January,
to Mr. Francis Rous, 16th January,
to Mr. Robert Douglas, 18th January,
to Mr. James Sharp, 18th January,
from Mr. Patrick Colvill, 5th March, 335
to Mr. James Sharp, 9th March,
from the fame, 21ft March,
to Mr. James Hamilton, 30th March, 340
from Mr. James Sharp, 28th July, 341
to the fame, (without date),
to Mr. Francis Rous, 23d September, 344
from the fame, 10th October, 345
from Mr. James Sharp, 13th Oclober, 346
from the fame, 21ft November, 349
1658.
Letter from Mr. James Sharp, 25th February, 349
to the fame, 3d May, . . . 350
to Sir George Maxwell, 3d May, . 351
to Mr. John Young, 3d May, . . . 351
to Mr. William Spang, (without date), . . . . 352
-to Mr. Robert Douglas, 31ft July, . . ".'" . . 375
- to Mr. William Spang, llth November, . . ". 382
- to Mr. Simeon AQie, 29th November, . . '. 391
1659.
Letter to Sir James Dundas, llth April, . . ''."'. . f 391
- to Mr. Robert Douglas, llth April, . . ' ; . 392
- to the fame, 18th May, . . . 395
- to Mr. James Sharp, 18th May, . . 396
1660.
Letter to Mr. James Sharp, 10th March, . . . . 398
- to the fame, 16th April, . . 490
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Letter to Mr. William Douglas, 23d May, . . 402
to Mr. David Dickfon, 27th May, . . 404
to the Earl of Lauderdaill, 16th June, . . 405
to the fame, 2d July, . . . 40*7
to Mr. George Hutchefon, 13th Auguft, . . 408
from Mr. James Sharp, 5th September, . 409
from the Earl of Lauderdaill, 22d Auguft, . .411
to the fame, 12th October, . . 412
to Mr. George Hutchefon, 5th November, ^ . , 414
to Mr. David Dickfon, 3d December, . . 415
from Mr. James Sharp, 13th December, . 415
to the fame, 17th December, . . 417
1661.
Letter to Mr. James Sharp, 1ft January, . . 418
from the fame, (without date,) . . . 420
from the Earl of Lauderdaill, 24th January, *." 421
Warrant of the King's Prefentation to Mr. Robert Baillie, 'as Principal
of the Univerfity of Glafgow, 23d January, . 422
Letter to Mr. William Spang, 31ft January, . ' . . 423
to Gifbertus Voetius, 1ft February, . '*'! . 451
to the Earl of Glencairn, 4th February, . . 452
to Mr. James Sharp, February, .... 453
Supplication of the Univerfity of Glafgow to the Eftates of Parliament, 454
Addrefs by Principal Baillie to the Lord High Commiffioner, . 455
Letter to Mr. James Robertfon of Bedlay, March, . . 455
to the Earl of Lauderdaill, 10th April, . . . . 457
to Mr. James Sharp, 13th April, . . . 458
to the Earl of Lauderdaill, 18th April, . . . 458
from Mr. James Sharp, end of April, . . . 460
to Mr. George Hutchefon, 24th June, . . . 461
to the Prefbytery of Kirkcudbright, 15th July, . . 462
to Mr. William Spang, (without date), . . . 462
to Mr. James Sharp, 29th Auguft, . . . 473
VOL. in. b
x TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Page
Letter to the Earl of Glencairn, Lord Chancellor, (without date),
to the Earl of Lauderdaill, (without date),
to the fame, 9th September,
to the fame, 1ft October, 4?9
to Mr. James Sharp, 1ft O&ober, 481
to the Duchefs of Hamilton, 1ft October, 482
1662.
Letter to Mr. William Spang, 12th May, . . • 483
APPENDIX.
«
No. I — LIST OP PAPERS INSERTED IN VOLUME THIRD OF THE MANUSCRIPT
COLLECTION OF BAILLIE'S LETTERS AND JOURNALS, 1648 TO
1661. . . . . . (485) 441
No. II. — ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS, CHIEFLY RELATING TO ECCLESI
ASTICAL AFFAIRS IN SCOTLAND, 164? TO 1662.
(Continued from Vol. II. page 516.)
1647.
72. Mr. George Gillefpie's Speech in the General Aflembly, (489) 449
1648.
73. Atteftation in favour of Lieutenant- General Baillie, (495) 455
1649.
74. Letter from the Commiffioners of the General Aflembly to King
Charles the Second, 7th February, . . (498) 458
75. Inftru&ions for the CommuTioners of the Church fent to the
King's Majeftie, in March, . (500) 46o
TABLE OF CONTENTS. xi
Page
76. Letter from the Commiffion of the General Afiembly to Dr.
Frederick Spanheim, 27th February, . (501) 461
77- Letter from the fame, to Dr. Andrew Rivet, fame date, (502) 462
78. Dr. A. Rivet's Letter to Baillie, 26th May, . . (503) 463
79- Memorandum from a Friend to reprefent to the Queen, (504) 464
80. A Note intended for Myn Here Willems, . . . 507
81. The Commiffion from the Eflates of Parliament, . . 507
82. Inftructions for the Commiffioners of Parliament fent to the King
at the Hague, ...... 508
83. The Report of the Commiffioners of the Church, of their pro
ceedings with his Majefty at the Hague, made in the
General Aflembly, 10th July, . . . 510
84. Letters from George Wynrame of Libberton,
1. To Mr. Robert Douglas, 31ft October 1649, . 522
2. To the fame, 18th November, . .. . 522
3. To the fame, 30th April 1650, . . . 523
1650.
85. Letter from King Charles the Second to Mr. Robert Douglas,
15th February 1649-[50.] . 524
86. Notices regarding the Metrical Verfions of the Pfalms received
by the Church of Scotland, .... 525
1651.
87. Letters from Mr. Robert Blair, Minifter of St. Andrews,
1. To Mr. Robert Douglas, . . . .556
2. To the fame, 16th March, ... 557
3. To the fame, 27th April, .... 558
4. To the fame, end of July, . . . 558
5. To Mr. David Dickfon, 20th Oftober, . . 559
88. Letter from Mr. James Durham to Mr. Robert Douglas, 14th July, 560
1652.
89. Proteftation againft the Provincial Synod at Glafgow, 8th
Odober, . 561
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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<JO. Advices and Anfwers, from Douglas and others in the Tower
of London, to Baillie's Queftions, 29th June, 563
1654.
91. Letter from Sir Archibald Johnftone of Warrifton to Mr. James
Guthrie, 29th March, , . 566
1656.
92. Inftruc~lions from the Refolutioners, to Mr. James Sharp, for
London, 23d Auguft, . . 568
93. Propofals by the Protefters, to be fought from the Lord Protector, 573
94. Letter from Lord Broghill to Mr. Robert Douglas, 10th Auguft, 573
95. Articles exhibited againft Mr. Patrick Gillefpie wherefore he
ought not to be Principall of the Colledge of Glafgow, . 573
1657.
96. Letter from Mr. Patrick Gillefpie to Mr. David Dickson, 2d July, 578
1658.
97. Letter from Mr. James Sharp to Mr. Robert Baillie, and Baillie's
Anfwer, in Auguft, . . . . ' . 573
98. Baillie's Commendatory Letter prefixed to Durham's Commen
tary on the Book of the Revelation, . . 533
1660.
99. letter from General Monck to Mr. Robert Dowglas, 14th March, 585
1661.
100. Letter from the Earl of Middleton to the Lord Clerk Regifter,
27th March, . . 58g
A GLOSSARY OF OBSOLETE WORDS, . . 537
INDEX OF THE NAMES OF PERSONS MENTIONED IN BAILLIE'S
LETTERS AND JOURNALS, . . . 593
LETTERS AND JOURNALS
OF
MR. EGBERT BAILLIE.
To MR. WILLIAM SPANG. JANUARY 26-rH 1647.
DEAR COUSIGNE,
I WROTE to yow at length before I came from London ; I have had a long
and tedious, but, thanks to God, profperous journey. I am now here weell.
I have made my report in the Commiffion of the Church to all their con
tentment ; our errand in England being brought near a happie period, fo farr
as concerned us the Commiffioners of the Church ; for, by God's blefling,
the four points of Uniformitie, which wes all our Church gave us in com-
miffion to agent in the Affemblie at Weftminfter, were alfe good as obtained.
The Dire6lorie I brought down before. The modell of Government we
have gotten it through the AfTemblie according to our mind : it yet flicks
in the hands of the Houfes. They have pafl four ordinances at lead about
it, all prettie right, fo farr as concerns the conftitution and erection of Gene-
rail Affemblies, Provinciall Synods, Prefbyteries, and Seffions, and the power
of ordination. In the province of London and Lancafhyre the bodies are
fett up. That the like diligence is not ufed long agoe in all other places,
it's the fottifh negligence of the miniflers and gentrie in the fhyres more than
the Parliament. That the power of jurisdiction in all things we require, ex
cepting appealls from the Generall Affemblie to the Parliament, is not put in
ordinances long agoe, it's by the [cunning] of the Independents and Eraftians
in the Houfe of Commons ; which obftacle we truft will now be removed by
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2 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1647.
the zeale of the city of London ; fo much the more, as [from] our nation are
+pt-> away, fooner and more eafily than any did expect, all grounds of jealoufie
of our joyning with the King, the greateft prop of the Sectaries power in
the Houfe. However, in the Jus Divinum of Prefbytery,1 printed by the
miniflerie of London, yow may fee that burthen taken off our fhoulders ; the
body of the minifterie of England, not the AflTemblie and Londoners only,
being fully leavened with our fenfe in all the point of government, and be
come willing, and able abundantly, to manage that caufe, without us, againfl
all oppofites.
The third point [of Uniformity], the Confeflion of Faith, I brought it with
me, now in print, as it wes offered to the Houfes by the Aflemblie, without
confiderable diflent of any. It's much cryed up by all, even many of our
greateft oppofites, as the bed Confeflion yet extant ; it's expected the Houfes
ihall pafs it, as they did the Direclorie, without much debate. Howbeit
the retarding partie hes put the Aflemblie to add Scriptures to it, which they
omitted only to efchew the offence of the Houfe, whofe practife hitherto
bet been, to enact nothing of religion on divine right or fcripturall grounds,
but upon their owne authoritie alone. This innovation of our oppofites may
weell coft the Aflemblie fome time, who cannot doe the mod eafie things
with any expedition ; but it will be for the advantage and ftrength of the
work. The fourth part of our defyred and covenanted Uniformitie is the
Catechifme. A committee hes drawne and reported the whole : the Af-
femblie ere I came away had voted more than the halfe; a fhort tiriie
will end the reft; for they ftudie brevitie, and have voted to have no
other head of divinitie into it than is fett doune in the Confeflion. This
ended, we have no more adoe in the Aflemblie, neither know we any more
work the Aflemblie hes in hand, but ane anfwer to the nine Queries of the
Houfe of Commons about the jus divinum of diverfe parts of the government.
The Minillers of London's fate Jut Divinum of Prefbytery does this abundant
ly ; alfo a committee of the Aflemblie hes a full anfwer to all thefe Queries
ready. The authors repents much of that motion: their aime wes, to
liave confounded and divided the Aflemblie by then- infnaring queftions;
' Jtu Divimum Re»imi*u Ecdctuultd : or, The Divine Right of Church-Government,
MMrted and evidenced by the Holy Scriptures, &c. : By sundry Ministers within the City of
London." Lond. 1646, 4to.
1647. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 3
but finding the Aflemblie's unanimitie in them, the Independents principles
forceing them to joyne with the reft, in aflerting the divine right of thefe
points of government whereupon the Parliament does mod fticke, the
movers of thefe queftions wifhes they had been filent. There is no more
work before the Aflemblie. The tranflation of the Pfalms is paft long agoe
in the Aflemblie ; yet it ftickes in the Houfes. The Commons paft their
order long agoe ; but the Lords joyned not, being folicited by divers of the
Aflemblie, and of the minifters of London, who loves better the more poetical
paraphrafe of their colleague Mr. Barton.2 The too great accuracie of fome
in the Aflemblie, flicking too hard to the originall text, made the laft edition
more concife and obfcure than the former. With this the Commiflion of
our Church wes not fo weell pleafed ; but we have gotten all thefe ob-
fcurities helped ; fo I think it fhall pafs. Our good friend Mr. Zacharie
Boyd hes putt himfelf to a great deale of paines and charges to make a
Pfalter, but I ever warned him his hopes were groundlefs to get it receaved
in our Churches ; yet the flatteries of his unadvyfed neighbours makes him
infift in his fruitlefs defigne.
When I took my leave of the Aflemblie I fpoke a little to them. The
Proloquitor, in the name of the Aflemblie, gave me ane honourable tefti-
monie,3 and many thanks for my labours. I had been ever filent in all their
debates ; and however this filence fometimes weighted my mind, yet I found
it the beft and wifeft courfe. No man there is defyred to fpeake: four
parts of five does not fpeak at all ; and among thefe are many moil able
men, and known by their wrytes and fermons to be much abler than fundrie
of the fpeakers ; and of thefe few that ufe to fpeak, fundry are fo tedious, and
thrufts themfelves in with fuch mifregard of others, that it were better for them
to be filent. Alfo there are fome eight or nyne fo able, and ready at all
times, that hardly a man can fay any thing, but what others, without his la
bour, are fure to fay alfe weell or better. Finding, therefore, that filence wes
a matter of no reproache, and of great eafe, and brought no hurt to the
work, I wes content to ufe it, as Mr. Henderfon alfo did for the farr mod
2 In the MS. " Burton." The version alluded to is that by " William Barton, Master of
Arts," which was printed in the year 1644, and passed through several editions.
3 Probably the Silver Cup presented to Baillie about this time, which remained in his family
till a recent period, if it be not still preserved by one of his descendents, who resides abroad.
4 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1647.
part of the laft two years. My wrytes did conciliate to me credjte enough,
and my fenfe of inabilitie to debate with the bed, made me content to ab-
ftain ; whereof I did never as yet repent.
We flayed eight or nine dayes at Newcaftle. The King took very weell
with me. I might have had occafion to have faid to him what I pleafed ;
but knowing his fixed refolutions, I would not meddle at all neither to
preach nor pray before him. His unhappie wilfulnefs does ftill continue ;
and to this day he getts fome mifchievous inftruments to feed his mad-
nels. Sundrie made us believe the Queen was content he mould do any
thing, finding her difappointment in France from all hands. There wes fome
whifpering of the fec~laries plotting with him ; but this I fcarce believe ; for
each of them does reallie labour the others overthrow ; the French Am-
baflador, for all his fair proteftations, hes been no good inftrument. But that
which hes undone him, hes been his hopes for Scotland, to gett them, by one
means or other, to efpoufe his quarrell : much dealings, fome think, hes
been* both with the Army and Parliament for that end. It's very like, if
he had done any dutie, though he had never taken the Covenant, but per
mitted it to be put in ane Act of Parliament in both Kingdomes, and given
fo fatifia&orie ane anfwer to the reft of the Propofitions, as eafily he might,
and fometimes I know he was willing, certainly Scotland had been for him
as one man ; and the bodie of England, upon many grounds, wes upon a
difpofition to have fo cordiallie embraced him, that no man, for his life, durlt
have muttered againfl his prefent reftitution. But remaining what he wes
in all his maxims, a full Canterburian, both in matters of religion and flate,
he Hill inclined to a new warre ; and for that end refolved to goe to Scot
land. Some great men there prefled the equitie of Scotland's protecting
of him on any tearmes. This untymous excefs of friendmip hes ruined that
unhappie Prince ; for the better partie, finding the conclufion of the King's
comeing to Scotland, and thereby their own prefent ruin, and ruin of the
whole caufe, the makeing the Malignants mafters of Church and State, the
drawing the whole force of England upon Scotland for their perjurious viola
tion of their Covenant, they refolved by all means to crofle that defigne.
So when others propoied to the Parliament the afliftance of the King to
recover his government hi England, notwithftanding of any anfwer he might
give to the Propofitions, the better fort, before they mould give anfwer to fo
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high a queftion, defired a publick fall in the Parliament, and the advyce alfo
of the Commiffion of the Church. Both with fome difficultie were obtained.
But after that fall, and the diflincl; anfwer of the Church, that it wes unlaw-
full for Scotland to affift the King for his recoverie of the Government in
England if he approved not the Covenant, the Parliament wes peremptor
to refufe the King free accefle to Scotland, unlefs he fatiffied the propofitions.
This much they fignified to him by their commiffioners, which we mett at
Newcaflle. It wes eafy to be grieved, and to find what to reprehend in
this refolution ; for indeed it wes cloathed with many dangers and grievances ;
hot to fall at that nicke of time, on any conclufion, free of more dangers and
grievances, feemed impoffible. Notwithstanding of the great foumes of money,
yet the difbanding of our armie in peace will be a great taike : to fett on foot
fix thoufand foot and twelve hundred horfe, to the contentment of all, will
be hard ; and the intertaining of them will be harder. What the King or
his Englifti parliament will do next, there is no certaintie.
The pefl increafes in Glafgow : my heart pities that much mifguided place ;
all that may, are fled out of it. The Lord be with yow. Forraigne intelli
gence to me muft now be the larger ; for all here lives in great ignorance,
and neglect of things abroad. So I reft,
Your Coufigne,
Edinburgh, January 26th 1647. R- BAYLIE.
A POSTSCRIPT TO MR. SPANG. JUNE 2o 1647.
WHAT Dr. Strang writes to yow in the inclofed,4 1 pray yow fatiffie him
therein with all diligence. I do not like his withdrawing from the Divine
Decree the a6l and entitle of any finne, much lefle of free and indifferent
a<ftions : In this I think he fways too much to the one hand. But I fear
thofe he refutes fhall be found in alfe dangerous errors. He indeed handles
thefe Queftions in fuch a way that I doe pryze the man's ingyne and learn-
1 A paper by Dr. John Strang, Principal of the College of Glasgow, on the Divine Decrees
and God's permission of the existence of Sin, is included in Baillie's MS. It is entitled " Dr.
Strang's Stateing his Owne Question, 1647;" but « such subtile questions," as Baillie calls
them in this Postscript, are not suited for publication in the present work.
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ing much more than before, and thinks him now among the beft fchollars
of the Reformed Church. It will be my endeavour that our Aflemblie
medle not with fuch fubtile queftions, but leave them to the fchools.
Alwayes how fome men may labour to carie it I cannot fay.
After this letter lay a while befide me, I adde now, blefled be God, good
newes. David Lefley and Argyle raife from Dumblaine, the 17th of May,
with a very fmall and ill-provided army. He made very long marches over
the mountains, in ftormy weather, without houfes or tents. Againft the 23d
he come to Kintyre upon the enemie, fought and diflipate them, took in
all Kintyre ; hes fent a partie after Allafter, who, with a few, is fled to the
Ifles. This quick and happie expedition, by God's mercy, may be to us of
great advantage. If the Prince and Montrofe mould come over to raife new
broiles amongfl us, as fome furmifes they intend, or if the King fhould put
himfelfe in the head of the Sectarian army, which is not yet difbanded nor
quiet, David Lefley being free of the Highlanders, by God's help, will keep
Scotland quiet for this fummer with the little army he hes on foot. The
peft foes diflipate the Colledges of St. Andrews, and kills many in the north.
We had not fo ftormie a May thefe many years. Let me hear of your re
ceipt of this letter. My fervice to your wife. I remaine
Your Coufine,
R. BAYLIE.
FOR [SiR ARCHIBALD JOHNSTONE OF] WARISTON.
MY LORD,
THESE are to congratulate your health, which I hope is now firm and
good. I hear Dr. Bruce, Principall of Leonard's Colledge of St. Andrews,
is dead of the peft ; if it be fo, I wifh yow to confider if it were not good
to endeavour a call for Mr. Morus of Geneva to that place. I know it wes
expected he would have been weell content to have accepted a call to the
French Church at London : the man would be an ornament and good inftru-
ment in our land. If yow approve the motion, yow would fee who prefents,
whether the Colledge itfelfe, or the Univerfity, or the King, or Southelk, or
the Generall Aflemblie. It were good ye fpoke with Mr. Robert Dowglafs
about this purpofe : no others comes in my mind meet for that place ex-
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cept Dr. Stewart of Leyden. Be doeing good while yow have time : when
yow are more ftates-man than before, be no lefs than yow wont God's-man.
No man I know hes all they have fo evidently from God as yow : learn witt
from your predeceflbr.5 I hear he pretended to confcience and walking with
God, when the moft judicious did behold him in a corrupt way ; that fuch
a delufion fhould befall yow, what would be my forrow ! Beware of Tra-
quaire : let not the defire of riches break in upon yow : leave not Church
affaires ; the Church wes the beginning and ground of all your advance
ment : fet on foot again the commiffion for the Church : divifion of great
parodies, and fetleing of ftipends wes a good worke, which will fall if yow
mind it not in earned. As yow love the Chancelour's credite and refpect
in the countrie, keep him from medling more with the Annuitie ; and make
him fhort in his difcourfe at meetings ; but I almoft forgett myfelfe. Farewell.
Your Mr. and Servant,
R. BAYLIE.
Kilwinning, June 2d 1647.
My fervice to your Ladie.
MR. HAAK'S LETTER TO ME : [IN 1647 ?]
THE bufinefs of the Dutch Bible Notes ftands thus. T. H.6 haveing
received in May lad the two hundred pounds (which indeed came very fea-
fonablie to fatiffie his creditors,) being it wes the firfl and all the reall en
couragement he had iince the work wes firfl recommended unto him (in
Auguft 1644) ; to improve the fame to the reall profecution and perfecting of
that work, he addreft himfelfe again to the friends and favourers there
of here, and by name to Mr. [Corbet ?] ; who took the opportunitie foon after
to make a motion in the Houfe that fomething might be done for his further
encouragement and fupport ; which it feems wes very weell relifhed, and
5 Shortly before this, Johnstone had been appointed Lord Advocate.
6 " Theodore Haak, Esq." a native of the Palatinate, and one of the earliest members of
the Royal Society, London, was the Translator of " The Dutch Annotations upon the whole
Bible." This work, owing to want of encouragement, was not completed till the year 1657,
in 2 vols. folio, when it was dedicated to his Highness the Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
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fomething ordered likewife ; but through the multiplicitie of affaires, and the
faid gentleman's frequent abfence for his health's fake, there is nothing yet
effected, though I am dill put in hopes I lhall not be neglected. In the mean
tyme, I find myfelfe inthralled in very great ftraites. I [lod] a world of
time, and many excellent opportunities, both here and abroad, to live com-
fortablie by honed imployment, ftanding engaged for this, and finding of fmall
encouragement here to fecond yeares [yours?], whereby I might be enabled
to goe through with what J begane. Befides, I find whatever the ground
may be, our minifters feem not to care to have the work advanced, and from
the bookfellers I can promife myfelfe nothing at all. Moreover, fome defire-
ing to have only the bare Notes without the text, others the Notes and text
together, feeing they comment upon their own reading, and the fame much
differing from the Englifh, and much quotted throughout the Notes, and
much clearing both text and notes ; and I know not which fort I fhould moft
labour to fatiffic, the former being loath there fhould be a new Englifli text
publifhed: — And Mr. Blair indeed advyfed me to publifh the Pfalmes by them-
felves for ane effay ; and 1 have made them ready, the whole reading and text
together interwoven. But there is ane great fcruple (though I might find
one to undertake the printing) why that alfo is deferred, namely, that a great
number of notes throughout the Pfalmes relate to other parts and notes,
without which the reader mud needs remaine unfatiffied : — And the mifery is,
there is none here with whom I might confult about thefe matters ; and thefe
[who,] one would think, fhould mind and further it mod, remove it furthed
from them : that, indeed, what to doe or refolve I know not, haveing adven
tured further in readinefs to ferve the publick in this kind than I am able
to bear. Neverthelefs, if that I fhall be any wayes enabled to goe through
with the worke, I hope I fhall give tedimony that my defires and endea
vours are dill the fame, and not to give it over, if, and alfe long as I can
maintain it, without apparent hazard of my undoeing. I have enough to
fhew that I meant fincerelie, and endeavoured reall performance. Had I
mett more readie help the bufmefs had been accomplifhed by this time ;
now both it and myfelfe are out behind-hand, nothing troubling me more
than that thereby fo many expectations are frudrated, or at lead fo long
delayed. Alfe foon as any better hopes appears I fhall not faill to give
further account.
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To MR. WILLIAM SPANG. EDINBURGH, JULY ISxn 164Y.
DEAR COUSINE,
I RECEAVED yours, the 6th of July, this day, and another of yours, Aprile
9th, within thefe two or three weeks, together with your Honorius Reggius,7
for which we are all much obliedged to your great paines in. That bufinefs
which yow fo earnefllie recommended to Mr. David Dickfone and me, was
not fealible, had we ufed all poflible diligence ; but the truth is, although I
believe ye know my willingnefs to doe to my power in things that concerns
yow, lefs than you wrote that matter did, yet it fell fo out, that I could ufe
little diligence to fpeak of ; for your letter about that purpofe came not to
my hand till near three moneths after it was written ; and when it came, our
whole towne of Kilwinning were keeped up upon fome fufpition of the plague ;
fo L could have no effedtuall communication, neither by word nor wryte,
with any ; and therefore I came to Edinburgh. That matter was fettled on
Mr. Arnott, who had diverfe of the chiefe Lords of the Seffion to folift for
him. For the great ficknefs of your good honeft wife I am forrie ; but glad
for her grace and patience.
Thefe matters of England are fo extremely defperate, that now twyfe they
have made me lick : except God arife, all is gone there. The imprudence
and cowardice of the better part of the City and Parliament, which was triple
or fextuple the greater, has permitted a company of filly rafcalles, which
calls themfelves yet no more than fourteen thoufand, horfe and foot, to
make themfelves matters of the King, and Parliament, and City, and by
them of all England ; fo that now that difgraced Parliament is but a com
mittee to a& all at their pleafure, and the City is ready to fright the Par
liament, at every firft or fecond boaft from the army. No humane hope
remaines but in the King's unparalleled willfulnefs, and the armie's un-
meafurable pride. As yet they are not agreed, and fome writes they are
not like to agree : for in our particular I expe6t certainly they will agree
' « Commentarius de Statu Ecclesia; Britannicse hodierno/' a tract published at Dantzick,
1647, under the name of < Honorius Reggius,' the anagram of < Georgius Hornius/ a learned
writer who was a Professor successively at Harderwyk and Leyden.
VOL. III.
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weel enough, at what diftance foever their affections and principles ftand.
Allwayes if the finger of God in their fpirits ftiould fo fair dement them as
to difagree, I would think there were yet fome life in the play ; for I know
the body of England are overwearie long agoe of the Parliament, and ever
hated the fectaries, but much more now for this their unexpected treacherie
and oppreffion. On the other part, the King is much pitied and defyred ;
fo if they give him not contentment, he will overthrow them. If he and
they agree, our hands are bound : we will be able, in our prefent pofture and
humour of our highly diftra&ed people, to doe nothing ; and whom (hall we
goe to help, when none calls but the King ? Parliament and City, as their
malt ITS command, are ready to declare againft us if we Ihould offer to arme :
But if the King would call, I doubt not of rifeing of the bed armie ever we
had, for the cruftiing of thefe ferpents, enemies to God and man. David
Lefley has gotten all Ida, and old Collkitto, without quarters : He is now
over to Mull, and purpofes within a fortnight to returne, having no more to
doe in thefe bounds. That things goe weell abroad, it is comfort to us.
That Leopold layes a little the French pride ; that all the Dutch Princes,
even Bavier, and the Ecclefiaftick Eleclour, have left the Emperor, I am glad ;
but counts it a ftrange prank of ingratitude in Bavier, and of unkyndnefs in
the Swedes toward the poor Palatine, at whofe charge moft that neutralise,
I fear, be concluded. I think your States wife in taking peace with Spaine.
MY SPEECH IN THE GENERALL ASSEMBLY [AT EDINBURGH,]
GIVING ACCOUNT OF OUR LABOURS AT LONDON. AUGUST 6xn 1647.
IT is one of the Lord's promifes to us, that they who fow in teares (hall
reap in joy ; that they who goe out weeping and carry precious feed, (hall re
turne with rejoyceing and bring their (heaves. It was the Generall Aflem-
blie's pleafure fome four yeares agoe, to fend fome of us, their weak brethren
and fervants, to that very venerable and worthie Synod at Weftminfter, to
fow in that famous place fome of the precious feed, not of our Church, as
enemies do (lander, but of God, the Father of all Light and Truth. Our
poor labours in that fervice were fo blefled by the good hand of our God,
that although the fowing of the feed was often accompanied with much folici-
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tude and perplexitie of mind, yea fometimes with great griefe of heart, and
tears in a good meafure, yet the vifible appearance of a fair harveft, did bring
a fenfible joy not only to ourfelves, but to many thoufands more on both fide
the feas. The laft Aflemblie wherein my prefent Colleague and I did .appear in
this place, we brought with us a bundle of fo goodlie Iheaves, as did revive
the hearts of many in that very fad time. This day the Lord has fent us
againe to the fame place, leadened with more of thefe precious fruites, which
we trull mall help to refrelhe all honefl fpirits, though otherwife exceedinglie
fadded with the late unhappie and much unexpected occurrences.
Right Honourable and Reverend, yow remember, that all your ecclefiaftick
defyres from your brethren of England, that all the commiffions and inftruc-
tions laid upon us your fervants, were only for the obtaining of Uniformitie in
four particulars, — in the Worfhip of God, in the Government of the Church,
in a Confeflion of Faith, and Catechifme. For the firft, the Direclorie we
prefented-in the forenamed Aflemblie gave good and ample fatiffaclion. It
was then your pleafure to caufe both of us returne, for the afliflance of our
other colleagues, in prefling your three remanent defyres. As for the Go
vernment of the Church, the goodnefs of our God gave us to obtaine, not
only thefe initiall Propofitions, whereof at our laft appearance we gave ane ac
count to the good likeing of all then prefent, but alfo a full and perfecl modell
of Difcipline, which, by the blefling of God, may make in a fhort time the
Churches in the three Kingdomes, in all confiderable parts of government,
not only uniforme, but weell near one ; as yow may fee, when you mall think
it convenient to take that modell of Difcipline into confideration.
In your third defyre, the Lord made our fuccefle no lefs profperous ; a large
Confeflion of Faith is per fy ted with farr greater unanimitie than any living
could have hoped for, among fo many learned divines, in fo diftempered a
place and diftraeted a feafon. I am confident, if the judgment of many
my wifer do not deceave, this piece of work is fo fine and excellent, that when
ever yow mail be pleafed to look upon it, the fight of it mail draw from the
moft cenforious eye, a good acceptation.
For your fourth and laft defyre, the Catechifme, my Reverend Colleague,
I know, is inftrufted to give fatiffaftion therein. I flayed till fome good
progrefle was made into it ; but long three years and fundry odd moneths
peregrination from my countrie, and abfence from my particular charge,
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wakened, I confefs, in me, a great langour to returne ; yea, all of us fell very
defireous to be at home, and joyntly did prefle the Commiffion of the Kirk
for a libertie. At lad, it wes their favour to permitt to ourfelves the permif-
lion of fome one : by the providence of God, and equitie of the brethren
there, the lott fell upon me. I was glad to be a carrier of a Confeflion of
Faith ; alfo of a Pfalter, which to my knowledge had cod the Aflembly fome
confiderable paines, and is like to be one neceflar part of the three Kingdoms
uniformitie. I brought likewife a good aflurance of a perfect Catechifme to
follow with all convenient diligence. This meflage made me, in January lad,
to obtain from the Commiflion of the Kirk that welcome which is my earned
defire may in due time be ratified and approven by this Venerable Aflembly ;
for after the approbation of God and tedimony of confcience, their allowance
of my meane endeavours is that which I wifti ; not as a reward for fome
labours and dangers I know I have undergone in your fervice, but as ane
encouragement to returne with cheerfullnefs to my private charge, after fo
long a diverfion. This is all I defyre for myfelfe, which, if I may obtaine,
I lhafl be defyreous to be thankfull to God and your reverences.
For my Colleagues, may I make bold, with permiflion, to offer fome few of
my thoughts. That glorious Soule of blefled memory,8 who now is crowned
with the reward of all his labours for God and for us, I wilh his remem
brance may be fragrant among us, fo long as free and pure Afiemblies re-
maine in this land, which we hope mall be to the coming of our Lord. Yow
know he fpent his drength, and wore out his dayes ; he breathed out his life
in the fervice of God, and of this Church : This binds it on our back, as we
would not prove ungrate, to pay him his due. If the thoughts of others be
conforme to my inmod fence, in duety and reafon he ought to be accounted
by us, and the poderitie, the faired ornament, after John Knox of incompare-
able memory, that ever the Church of Scotland did enjoy.
For my other Colleague,9 who yet remains in the place of our long toyle,
my defire is that this Reverend meeting may not forgett him, but, accord
ing to his very great worth and defervings, may take him to their wife con-
iideration.
For my prefent mod dear Brother,1 all I now intreat is, that he may find
1 Mr. Alexander Henderson. 9 Mr. Samuel Rutherford.
1 Mr. George Gillespie. His speech to the Assembly at this time, will be given in the Appendix.
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in this place fuch an open eare and ready attention as ordinarly, I know, he
had in the Englifh Affembly, where, indeed, no man was wont to find a
greater attention and audience.
I hope the Lord fhall enable him to give yow fo clear an account of the
true eftate of affaires, whereof, lince my departure, he hath been an eye and
ear witnefs, as (hall make it vifible and palpable to all, that we have no reafon
to repent of any of the labors of our love towards our neighbour Church and
Kingdome ; that the great work we doe intend there is fo well grounded, and
fo farr advanced among them, that the ports of hell, and the greatefl power
of man, (hall never be able to overturne it ; yea, that the prefent florme, how
terrible foever, which the prime inftruments of Satan, this day on earth, and
our greatefl adverfaries, the Sectaries, have raifed, mail, by the goodnefs,
wifdome, and power of God, be turned over as the unreafonable rage and follie
of the Prelates lately wes, to be a happy mean of haflening the accompliih-
ment of all our defires. I am very hopefull that the prefent earthquake,
though it make the foundation; and threaten the fwallowing up of both Church
and State, yet it fhall prove ane near antecedent to the fettling of all the
three Kingdomes, and the Churches in them, in that peace and happinels
which fome cannot believe till they fee and feell it.
It is my heart's wifh, with which now I clofe, that the hands of our
Church and State, which God hath made very inflrumentall in the laying the
ground, and helping up every part of the wall of this exceeding great and
glorious work, may not now be deficient in the end, when the top-flone alone
is to be laid : and deficient we mufl needs be if ever we open a doore to the
devill, of divifion to enter in, efpeciallie among us of the miniflrie. This evill
is fo great and deflru&ive, that the fears of it in zealous brethren, though
never fo caufelefs, are very pardonable. It has often been my great comfort
fince my returne, that, when I have fearched fo farr as my mean knowledge
can reach, I could find no reall ground at all for divifion in our Church as
yet. It ought to be all our prayers that long it may fo continue, for the old
ierpent is lying at all our doors ; but the man with whom he fhall firfl pre-
vaill to make himfelf a ringleader, upon whatfoever caufe, to divide and
trouble the Kirk of Scotland, let me fpeak prophecie unto him : Were he
this day of never fo high a price, and great fragrancie among us, yet he fhall
become a curfed foule, and his memory fhall flinck to all generations. But
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trufling that our God will avert this, and all other mifchieves from us, I
give place to that large and comfortable accompt which we expect from my
Reverend Brother. FINIS.
I did not truely intend to give offence to any, and leaft of all to one whom
I purpofe, while I live, as hitherto himfelfe knows I have done, to reverence
as a Father* of high worth and deferving. I have caufed write out the
notes I fcribled that morning and the night before, that he may confider at
leafure if any thing I faid was juftly offenfive. For the two paflages I heard
was excepted againft, I make this Apologie : —
For the firft, I conceave it is the priviledge of every member of the Afiem-
blie to fpeak out, upon a fair occaiion, that which he is perfuaded to be a
feafonable and ufefull truth : this truely wes my cafe in that particular : If
I be deceaved, ignorance and charitie, not prefumption, are ingredients in my
fault. For the fecond paflage, I intended, in truth, to give a caveat, not to our
Father, but to thefe only with whom he ufes to be offended : however, the
thing* is a truth undenyable, which Scripture, and all reafon, will make good,
and which, I am perfuaded, no member of the Affemblie will deny.
If any other paffage of my Speech wes excepted againft, I doe not know.
To A FRIEND IN KILWINNING.
LONDON and the affaires of England lye fore on the breaft of many honeft
men ; yet the profperitie of our own affaires here, both of Church and State,
gives us fome relief. Mr. Cheiflie fent us word that he wes detained at
Newcaftle ; which did much perplex us ; for our State meeting did depend
upon his meffage. It pleafed God to make his detainers let him goe before
the meffenger of our State come to demand him. When he came, he gave
us a full information how all affaires in England flood. The inclofed papers
will (hew the incredible change that a few dayes wrought. The City's de
claration and diurnal declares in what a brave pofture both the City and
Parliament once wes in : the other papers mew how foon all wes overturned.
* Baillie here alludes to David Calderwood, who had taken some exceptions at the conclu-
tion of his speech : Vide infra, page 20.
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The armie marched through the whole city by way of triumph ; but flayed
not in it, did no violence to any ; only three or four regiments keeps the
forts about Weftminfter, and guards the Parliament ftill. For all that, the
Houfe of Commons votes fundrie things contrare to the mind of the armie :
how long that courage will remaine I cannot fay. It's thought that people,
when it hes felt a little the burthen of the armie, will break that yoke by one
mean or other. The armie' s mind, much of it, may be feen in their propo-
litions, a paper which I purpofed to fend, but now it's fallen by : By it they
are cleare enough for a full libertie of confcience, a deftroying of our Cove
nant, a fetting up of Bifhops, of inthralling the King fo far, as in my judge
ment, he and they will not agree, albeit many thinks they are agreed all-
ready. If this were, our cafe were very hard. Never more appearance of
a great difcord, both in our Church and State fome few dayes agoe ; but, bleff-
ed be God, the appearances are now much changed. Never Affemblie more
harmonious than this yet hes been. Our declaration to England, a very
good piece, is pad without a contrare voice. An a6l againfl vagers from
their own miniflers, and a large direction for private worfhip, drawn by Mr.
Robert Blair, for the correcting of all the faults in worlhip, which offended
many here, is paft the Committee without a contrare voice; and, I think,
fhall paffe the Affemblie alfo, no lefs unanimoufly ; which demonftrates the
trueth of what I faid in my Affemblie-fpeech, That for all the noife fome
made, yet truly there wes no divifion as yet in our Church. Yefterday, and
this night, our State, after much irreconcileable difference, as appeared, are at
laft unanimouflie agreed to fend the Chancellor and Lanerick to the King and
Parliament of England, to comfort and encourage both to keep our Cove
nant, and not to agree to the propofitions of the army. No appearance, as
yet, of any flurreing in hafte in this Kingdome.
I think our Affemblie may fitt all the next week. Mr. James Fergufhill
may thank God, and his friends here, that he wes not fent to winter in
Ireland, in the Derrie. My fervice to all my friends. I am fure the pray
ers of pious people, for the Affemblie, are anfuered ; which mould encourage
them to continue to poure out their hearts unto God, in fo fad a time, for
the Church and State, and men imployed therein. The Lord, we hope, will
aryfe and blow away the prefent mid.
Edinburgh, Auguft 20th. Friday at night.
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[To MR. WILLIAM SPANG.] SEPTEMBER IST 1647.
COUSINE,
YOUR fad letters of your dear Wyfe's death, I receaved. I pray God com
fort yow. Public!; forrow does not permitt us to be fo affected with any pri
vate grief, either of our owne or friends, as otherwife we would. London
hes lyen like a mylneflone on my bread now of a long time. The firft week
we came to this towne, my heart wes a little relieved. I thought the Lord
had anfwered our prayers much fooner than I expected, and had put Lon
don in fo good a pofture for averting all our feares as I could have wifhed ;
but that joy laded not full eight dayes. Stapleton and Hollis, and fome others
of the eleven members, had been the maine perfuaders of us to remove out of
England, and leave the King to them, upon afiiirance, which wes mod lyke-
lie, that this wes the only means to gett that evill army did)anded, the King
and peace fettled according to our minds ; but their bent execution of this
reall intention hes undone them, and all, till God provyde a remeed. We
were glad when Lifle wes recalled from his Lieutenantrie of Ireland, a crea
ture of Cromwell's, who gott that great trud for no vertue at all but his fer-
viceablenefs to that faction. This wes the firft fenfible grievance to that
army. The fecond was the employing of Skippon and Maffie, in the Irifh
command, and giving to Fairfaxe fuch a command in England as made him
not very formideable. But when the third ftroke came, of diflbanding the
mod of the fectaries, and cafhiering of their officers, this put them on that
high and bold defigne, which as yet they follow, as, I think, not fo much on
great preconception, as drawne on by the courfe of affaires, and light heads
of their leaders. Vaine and Cromwell as I take it, are of nimble hot fancies
for to put all in confufion, but not of any deep reach. St. John and Pier-
point are more dayed, but not great heads ; Say and his fon, not [James ?], al
beit wifer, yet of fo dull, and foure, and fearfull a temperament, that no great
achievement, in reafon, could be expected from them. The red, either in
the armie or Parliament, of their partie, are not on their myderies, and of no
great parts either for counfell or action, fo farr as I could ever obferve. The
follie of our friends wes apparent, when at the armie's firft back-march, and
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refufall to difband, they recalled their declaration againfl their mutinous
petitions. Eafily might all their defignes have been cruftied at that nick of
tyme, with one flout look more ; but it was a dementation to fitt ftill amazed
at the taking of the King, the accufation of the eleven members, the armie's
approaching to the city. Here, had the City agreed, and our friends in Par
liament fhewed any refolution, their oppofites councell might even then have
been eafily overturned ; for all this while, the armie wes not much above ten
thoufand ill-armed fojors. But the irrecoverable lofs of all, wes the ill ma-
nageing of the City's brave engagement. Had they then made fafl the chief
of the Sectarian partie in both Houfes, and flopped their flight to the armie ;
had Maffie and Waller, with any kind of mafculous activity, made ufe of
that new trufl committed to them ; Mr. Marfhall, and his feventeen fervants of
the Synod, for all Fowke's and Gibbs's fubornation, mould never have been
bold to offer that deflructive petition to the Houfes and Common Counfell,
which, without any capitulation, put prefently in the armie's power, both Par
liament, City, and all England, without the leafl contradiction: ane ex
ample rarely paralelled, if not of treachery, yet at leafl of childifh improvi
dence and bafe cowardice. Since that time they have been abfolute maflers
of all. Which way they will ufe this unexpected foveraignitie, it will quickly
appear. As yet they are fetling themfelves in their new fadle. Before they
got up, they gave the King and his partie fair words ; but now, when all is
their owne, they may put him in a harder condition than yet he has tafted of.
Their propofalls, a part of their mind, gives to the King much of his defyre
in bringing back Bifhops and Books, in putting down our Covenant and
Prefbytery, in giving eafe to Malignants and Papifls ; but fpoills him of his
temporall power fo much, as many thinks, he will never acquiefce to ; albeit
it's fpoken loud, that he and they alreadie are fully agreed.
Our State here, after long expectation to have heard fomething of the
King's own mind and defyres, as yet have heard nothing from him to count of.
Although he fhould employ their help againfl his oppreffors, yet he being flill
altogether unwilling to give us any fatiffaction in the matter of our Covenant,
we are uncertain what courfe to take ; only we doe refent to our Commif-
fioners to oppofe the propofalls, and to require a fafe-conduct to the Chan-
cellour and Lanerick to come up to the King and Parliament. It cofl many
debates before it came to this conclufion. Our great men are not like to
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pack up their differences. The Duke and his friends would have been
thought men compofed of peace in any tearmes, and to have caft on others
defignes of imbroiling Scotland in a new warre. But when all were weary of
jangling debates, the conclufion whereto the Committee wes brought, wes fo
fair to efpoufe the King's quarrell in anie tearmes, that Argyle and Warrif-
tone behooved to proteft againft our engadgement in fuch tearmes. To
avoid invidious proteftations, both parties agreed to paffe ane act of not in-
gadgement. The proceedings of fome are not only double and triple, but fo
manifold, that as no other, fo, in my mind, themfelves know not what they
finally intend. They who made themfelves gracious and ftrong, by making
the world believe that it was their oppofites who had brought the country hi
all the former trouble, and would yet againe bring it into a new dangerous
warre, when it came to the poynt, were found to precipitate us into dangers,
and that in fuch tearmes as few with comfort could have undertaken. We
have it from diverfe good hands at London, that fome here keep correfpon-
dence with Sir Thomas Fairfaxe, which to me is an intollerable abhomination.
The prefent fenfe of many is this : If the King and the armie agree, we
mud be quiet and look to God : if they agree not, and the King be willing
to ratifie our Covenant, we are all as one man to reftore him to all his rights,
or die by the way : if he continue refolute to reject our Covenant, and only
to give us fome parts of the matter of it, many here will be for him, even in
thefe tearmes, but diverfe of the beft and wifeft are irrefolute, and waits till
God give more light.
However, David Lefley, with a great deale of fidelitie, activitie, and fuc-
cefle, hes quieted all our Highlands and Ifles, and brought back our lit
tle armie ; which, we think, (hall be quartered here and there, without
diibanding, till we fee more of the Englifh affaires. The peft for the time,
vexes us. In great mercie Edinburgh and Leith, and all about, which
lately were afflicted with more of this evill than ever wes heard of in Scot
land, are free : fome few infections now and then, but they fpread not.
Aberdeen, Brechin, and other parts of the north, are miferablie wafted. St.
Andrews and Glafgow, without great mortalitie, are fo threatened, that the
fchooles and colledges now in all Scotland, hot Edinburgh, are fcattered. By
this means my ftudies and domeftick affaires are clean difordered, and like fo
to be dill, if the Lord be not mercifull.
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While I had written this fair, by the packett this day from London I learn
that the armie daily goes higher and higher, which to me is a hopefull pre-
fage of their quicker ruine. The chief fix of the eleven members, were
coming to you: Stapleton, after3 Hollis the fecond gentleman for all gal-
lantrie in England, died at Calice. I think it will be hard to the Parlia
ment and City to bear thefe men long ; and I hope, if all men were dead,
God will arife againft them. Munfler is not like to be a fchoole to them
long. Cromwell and Vaine are like to run on to the end of Becold and
Knipperdolling's race. Northumberland hes feafted the King at Sion-houfe ;
hence he went to Hampton-court. They fpeak of his coming to Whitehall.
If he agree no better with the Sectaries than yet he does, that journey may
prove fatall. He is not likely to come out of London willingly ; and if the
army Ihould draw him, that violence may waken fleeping hounds. If they
let him come to London, without affureance of his accord with them*, they
are more bold and ventorious than wife ; and if the King agree to their ftate-
defignes, I think he is not fo confonant to all his former principles and prac-
tifes as I took him.
I know you expect fome account of our Affemblie. Take it, if yow
have patience to read what I have fcribled in hade, on a very ill meet of
paper. I have no leafure to double ; for our Commiffioners enters every
day at feven, and we are about public bufinefs dayly till late at night. At
our firft meeting, there wes clear appearance of formed parties for divi-
fion ; but God hes turned it fo about, that never Affemblie wes more har
monious and peaceable to the very end. The laft year, a minifter in the
Merfe, one Mr. James Simpfone, whofe grandfire wes, as I take it, ane uncle
or brother to famous Mr. Patrick of Stirling, a forward, pious, young man,
being in fuite of a religious damfell, filler to Mr. James Guthrie's wife, had
keept with Mr. James Guthrie, and others, fome private meetings and ex-
ercifes, which gave great offence to many. When they came before the laft
Generall Affemblie and Commiffion of the Kirk, Mr. David Calderwood and
fundrie other very honeft men, oppofite to Malignants, were much grieved,
and by that grief moved to joyne with Mr. William Colville, Mr. Andrew
" Baillie's amanuensis had mistaken this word, and makes it " Stapleton, Esler, Hollis," &c.
But the meaning is obvious, as on the 24th August 1647, Whitelocke informs us, there came
" News of the sudden death of Sir Philip Stapleton, at Calais, of the plague."
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Fairfoule, and fuch whom fome took to be more favorable to Malignants than
need were. Thir two joyned together, made a great partie, efpeciallie when
our Statefmen did make ufe of them to bear down thofe who had fwayed
our former Affemblies. The conteft wes at the choyfeing of the Moderator.
The forementioned partie were earned for Mr. William Colville/ Many
were for me ; but I wes utterly unwilling for any fuch unfitt charge, and re-
folved to abfent myfelfe from the firfl meeting, if by no other mean I could
be fhifted the leett. At laft, with very much adoe, I gott myfelf off, and Mr.
Robert Dowglafs on the leetts ; who carried it from Mr. William Colville
only by four votes. God's blefling on this man's great wifdome and modera-
tione hes carried all our affaires right to the end ; but Mr. David Calder-
wood having miffed his purpofe, hes preffed foe a new way of leetting the
moderator for time to come, that puts in the hand of bafe men to get one
whom they pleafe, to our great danger. We fpent a number of dayes on feck-
leffe particulars. Mr. Gillefpie came home at our firfl downfitting : he and
I made our report to the great fatiffaclion of all. Yow have here what I
fpoke.5 Mr. Calderwood was very offended with what I fpoke in the end ; but
my apologie in private fatiffied him.6 He, and others of his acquaintance,
came with refolution to make great dinne about privie meetings and nova
tions, being perfuaded, and willing to perfuade others, that our Church wes
allready much peftered with fchifme. My mind wes cleane contrare ; and
now, when we have tryed all to the bottome, they are found to be much more
miftaken than I ; for they have obtained, with the hearty confent of thefe men
whom they counted greateft patrons of fchifme, all the a&s they pleafed
againfl that evill, wherein the wifdome and authentic of Mr. Blair hes been
exceeding ferviceable. This yielding on our fide, to their defyres, drew from
them a quiet confent to thefe things we intended, from which at firft they
feemed much averfe. We agreed, nemine contradicente, to that declara-^
tion, which wes committed to Mr. Gillefpie and me, but wes drawne by him
alone ; alfo, after much debate in the Committee, to the Confefiion of Faith ;
and to the printing of the Dire&orie for government, for the examination of
the next Generall Affemblie ; of the Catechife alfo, when the little that re
mains (hall come downe ; likewife for printing, to that fame end, two or three
* In the MS. the name " Coline," uniformly occurs for Colvin, or Colville.
5 Vide tuprd) page 10. 6 Vide supra, page 14.
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fheet of Thefes againft Eraftianifme. committed to Mr. Gillefpie and me, bot
done by him at London, at Voetius's motion ; which we mind, when approven
here, to fend to him ; who is hopefull to get the confent of your Univerfities,
and of the Generall Affemblie of France to them, which may ferve for good
purpofe. We have put the new Pfalter alfo in a good way. In our Univerfitie
correfpondence, we have made more progrefs in good defignes than I ex
pected. With much adoe, at laft, I have gotten Doctor Strang's bufinefs to
a good and a fair end, according to his mind. In all thefe things Mr. Blair
wes my great afiiftant. If the Lord would be pleafed to give us peace, our
Generall Affemblies would be channells of great bleffings to this Me.
We have this day very happily ended our Affemblie with good concord ;
albeit Mr. David Calderwood, ferving his owne very unrulie humor, did very
much oft provoke. He hes been fo untollerable through our forbearance, that
it's like he fhall never have fo much refpect among us. His importunitie
forced us, not only to a new ridiculous way of choifeing the Moderator, but,
on a conceit he hes, that a minifter depofed mould not againe be repofed al-
moft in no cafe, he hes falhed us exceedingly about the power of the com-
miffion of the Kirk to depofe a minifter in any cafe ; yet we carried it over
him. We have obtained leave to print all our Englifh papers, Catechife,
Confeffion, Propofitions and Direc~lorie for government and ordination, our
debates for accommodation againft tolleration, our papers to the grand Com
mittee. The Propofitions for government, albeit pail both in our Affemblie
and Parliament 1643, Mr. David oppofed vehemently the printing, and his
grand followers, Mr. John Smith and Mr. William Colville with him, becaufe
they held forth a feffion of a particular congregation to have a ground in
fcripture, which he, contrare to his Altar of Dainafcus, believes to have no
divine right, but to be only a commiffion, with a delegate power from the
Prefbyterie, tollerat in our Church for a time. With great difficultie could
we gett the printing of that paper paft for his importunitie ; bot at laft we
gott all, blefled be God,
An exprefs from London this day tells us, that the armie's parliament
preffes the concurrence of our Commiffioners to fend to Hampton-court
the propofitions to the King. This feems to import the King's refufall
of the propofalls, and difagreeing yet with the army. And what they will
doe with the King, if he refuife the propofitions alfo, we know not ; only
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their laft remonftrance (hews their refolution to caft out of the Parliament
many more members, and to take the lives of fome for example. The fpirit
that leads them, and the mercy of God to that opprefled people, will not per-
mitt thefe tyrannous hypocrites to reft, till, by their own hands, they have
pulled doune their Babell. The Lord be with yow. Let me hear of the
receipt of this ; and help us with forraigne newes more liberally.
Your Coufigne,
II. BAYLIE.
Edinburgh, September 1ft 1647-
FOR HIS NOBLE AND GOOD FRIEND POLONI ALMAN,? AT DULOPOLIS
IN SLAVELAND. OCTOBER 13TH 1647.
I HOPE fome man, for all his tranfgreflions againft my fqueamiih ftomack, is
at laft weell payed, whom the old neat-driver hes lafcht foe grievouilie hi
print, with your patience may weell be called a loger, a bull, or neats-head :
heirafter yow know who hes the gift of a fair neats-tongue ; but medle
not with drivers fo long as yow are near the Thames, leaft they make yow
fwime, which my friend could never doe without bladders. Alwayes forget
not that your one verie large man is not now at your back, therefore be verie
toft. I have fent yow with this bearer, what I promifed long agoe, my little
Bible, without points, of Plantin's Antwerpen edition. I will not permitt yow
to forgett your bargane for my Chryfoftome. I truft neither God nor man
will long permitt evill men to triumphe : in this confidence I reft,
Yours, &c.
We have at this time a good and full Commifiion of the Church : we have
been unanimous in our Remonftrance ; the Committee of Estates gave us
thanks (but by the wifdome of their chieff who wes galled therewith) for
our vigilance and care. We hope at prefent to carry our poynt hot with fuch
difficultie, that now I conclude, (in which judgment I find the wifeft I fpeak
with concurr,) Scotland mail be unable for any reall fervice, without cureing of
7 This somewhat enigmatical epistle was most likely addressed to the Earl of Lauderdale :
He was then in London, and had probably been abused in some of the Diurnals.
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our divifions. We are very near to tuo or three equall parts. It's my heartie
advice to you who ftill, I hope, may be a happie inftrument as yow defire
your one man to be able to doe anie fervice at all at this time, either for God
or the poore and ftill (alas !) deluded King, or for our lamentablie perfecuted
brethren and caufe there, or for the defence of the religion, liberties, lives, of
us here againft a partie, who, I doubt not, at their firft leafure, will ftretch
out their foot on our necks. Yet once againe doe your uttermoft endea
vours to unite your three friends, who latelie have vifite yow from this. No
means here are poffible for that end : if God give not yow a mind and abilitie
to doe it, that reconciliation is defperat, and we muft give over to think of
doeing any good abroad ; and all our thoughts mall be how we may cut off
one another at home, to the loud laughter of fe&aries and malignants fair
and near. I obteft yow in name of God and the poor King, and en-
flaved England, and Scotland readie to be wracked, fetting afide all foolifh
injuries yow have gotten, either from one or other, yow will ftirre up your-
felffe to make two or three men one. If God help yow to doe this, when
I come to paint yow the third time, I mail put a ray on your brow longer
than any of Moyfes homes.
FOR MR. WILLIAM SPANG : FROM EDINBURGH,
OCTOBER 13TH 1647.
WE gave in this day to the States a remonftrance of the hazard of Religion
and Covenant, if our armie mould difband. We hope that plott, long hatch
ed, and with too great eagernefs driven on, fhall this day or to-morrow be
broken. Our dangers of farder confufion are great, if God be not mercifull.
The perfecution at London is untollerable. I am very confident that
partie, fo much oppofite to God and man, cannot long ftand. Ere long, I
may give yow, at my leafure, ane particular accompt of all our affaires.
What yow have of forraigne affaires, let me know fully and frequently.
Gett to me, by Mr. Walter Bowie, Voetius's Thefes, all collected and bound
in one. If the auftions of fchollars books there, be, as I hear, I think
yow might provide, not only yourfelffe, but your friends, with ftore of good
and cheap books. I think, fo foon as God frees us of the fear of the fword,
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and peft, yow would doe weell to make a vifite of your friends for mutual I
refreftiment. The Lord be with yow.
I fee the little Hebrew Bible, with points, is printed at Amilerdam in
Manafles Ben-Ifrael's houfe : it fells here very weell. By fome of your
acquaintance yow could perfuade him or fome other to print the Targum,
one book, with the points and the Latine verfion ; alfo the Mafora, which
Buckftorph's Bible hes on the margine, the fame way ; and fome chief parts
of the Talmud or the Rabbins wrytes, with the points and Latine expofition :
they would fell weell, and doe much good. Send me Voetius's [Voflius's ?]
Bibliothecas ; and let me hear what yow know of good Chronologers old
or late. I wifli that the Arabick Bible and other books, which are come out
in the late Paris Bible, were printed feverallie ; for who will give a thoufand
merks for a Bible of ten volumes. There is diverfe manufcripts in England
of Erpenius's Arabick Dictionary : I think Mr. Cheeflie hes one of them.
If L'Emperour will not move fome there to print ane Arabick little hand-
fome diclionary, (for who will be fafcht with thefe four volumes of that
Italian,) I wifli that of Erpenius were printed, till a better come. Our
poor printers of old, the Stephens, etc. gave many a fair volume of new
brave books, in all languages : (hall we now gett no new printed books of
any note, but from the Popifli preffes at Paris only.
MISTAKES RECTIFIED, IN A LETTER TO A WORSHIPFULL KNIGHT, S. D. C.8
FROM A MINISTER IN THE WEST. EDINBURGH, MARCH STH 1648.
RIGHT WORSHIPFULL,
FINDING your ingenuous profeffion to be fully fatiffied with what I offered,
the other night, for the clearing of the grofle miftakes which yow affured me
were fleeing abroad of many the befl men of my coate, that yow may be con
firmed in that opinion of good men, which their prefent innocence and former
great deferving doth in juftice call for, I fend yow now in wryte, with fome
8 This letter was apparently addressed by Bail lie to Sir Daniel Cannichael : He was no-
minated by Parliament to be Treasurer Depute, 10th March 1649. A copy of it, in a con
temporary hand, with some slight corrections, (but not in Baillie's own hand,) is contained in
Wodrow M8S. Folio, Vol. xxix. No. 33.
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little enlargement, the heads, which then I proponed, for taking off what vow
told me, was the too common objection of men, otherwife not of the word
affections, either towards us or the caufe.
I gave yow affureance that my Brethren of the miniftrie were fo farr from
that alleadged averfnefs from all Warre againil the Sectaries in England in
any tearms, that I knew thefe of them that were moft afperfed with that
flander, to be readie to goe alongfl with ane army, and venture their perfons
againfl that enemie, if fo be they might obtaine the queftion of the Warre
to be ftated, as, yourfelfe did acknowledge, everie pious, wife, and unbyaff-
ed .fpirit would gladly admit of as moft reafonable and neceflarie.
"We judge it indeed convenient, that minifters be verie warie of what they
fpeak of any matter of ftate, and moft of all, what encouragement they give
to the railing of a Warre ; yet everie fubjecl of a kingdome hes fo much to doe
and fuffer in his perfone, eftate, and friends, when a warre comes on, and
warre is fo great and weightie a cafe of confcience, that minifters, both as
men and according to their calling in the Church, may well be admtted to
delyver their fenfe of that which fo much concerns the confcience, both of
themfelves and every foule of their flocke.
In the prefent cafe, three things are moft confiderable. 1. A conclufion.
2. The grounds thereof. 3. The impediments that lye in the way of its prac
tice. Upon the firft two, which are the maine, I conceave no difference at all :
the debates on the third may be fo eafily accomodat, that if there mould re-
maine any fenfible difcrepance amongft us about them, that very unhappie
and moft needlefs miffortoun muft be imputed to many other things rather
than to any defigne of ours to impoffibilitat that undertaking, which we pro-
fefs ourfelves moft willing to further, with the hazard of all thefe things which
on the earth are deareft unto us.
The conclufion, that Scotland at this time hes a juft caufe of Warre againft
the Sectarian army in England, and their adherents, none of us doth queftion ;
nor do we controvert the common and obvious grounds of this conclufion,
whether yow fpeak of them in the Thefe, or of their application in the Hypo-
thefe. We grant the notorious violation of a National League in the moft fub •
ftantial parts, where there is no appearance of fatiffaction for paft breaches, or
of fecuritie for keeping in the future, except only by deluforie words, gives a juft
right and call to the injured nation of vindicating their league by the fword.
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We admit likewife the aflumption, that while the Parliament and bodie of
the Kingdome of England were upon very hopefull and promifing endeavours
to keep every part of their league with us, there is arifen a faction of fe&aries
and hereticks, now prevalent in the Army and Parliament, who openly and
obdinately doe tread under foote the whole and every part of our Covenant,
without any hope of redrefle in any peaceable way ; fo fair are they from
having it impofed upon any by a law, that no entreatie could obtaine of
them to let it (land in the propofitions to the King, where the hand of the
Parliaments of both Kingdomes had fixed it, as the maine and greatefl de
mand : their carriage towards the Covenant in words and deeds, thefe
years pad, in the fence of all, makes them mofl manifeft deilroyers of it.
This we take to be true of every part, as weell as of the whole : the firft
two articles are about religion and uniformity ; this faction reformes religion
by their advancing, to their power, and mod indudrioufly fpreading abroad,
of more errors and herefies than did ever in any one age lodge in any one
place of the world. Their uniformitie is to guard, both by law and force,
every man who pleafes, in his maintainance, and practife for church difcipline,
of that which is mod oppolite to preflbyteriall government.
For the third article, the defence of the priviledges of Parliament, and
liberties of the Kingdomes, of the King's perfon and authoritie, they have
turned their armes upon the Parliament, the City of London, and whole
Kingdome of England, who oppofed their wayes ; all thofe they keep ftill
under foote, groaning and trembling under the lhaking of their fword : con
trary to the declared will of both Kingdomes, they feafed upon the perfon of
the King, and carying him about at their pleafure, have at lad clapt him up
a clofle and perpetuall prifoner, for his denyall of fuch bills, which gave the
armie a power to be maders for ever of all the force, treafure, and lawes
of the kingdome of England ; neither have we any fecuritie but that their
way is polling to the depryving of the King's poderitie, of their birthright,
and changing the government of the State in the whole Ifle.
For the fourth article, then: punifhing of evill indruments, for hindering the
Reformation, for dividing one Kingdome from another, for making factions
among the people contrare to the League and Covenant, is no other bot the
fetting of the mod eminent of this kind in the highed places of honor, profite,
and power in the Parliament, in the armie, in the navie, in the city, in all
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the fhyres, for that very end, that thefe their inftruments may be encouraged
to goe on in fuch evill fervices to both Kingdomes, againfl their fwora
league.
For the fifth, all their keeping the two Kingdomes in union is manifeftlie to
breake and fcorne the greateft bonds of conjunction and common intereft of
thefe two realmes.
For the laft article, their protection of all who enters in the League, is
openly to banifhe, imprifon, affright, keep under, and perfecute the moft emi
nent both of the parliament, city, and Ihyres, for nothing elfe but their fincere
and cordiall endeavours to adhere to, and profecute the expreffe ends of the
Covenant.
That the Sectarian faction is notorioufly guilty of fuch atrocious breaches
of every article of the League, we doe not doubt ; nor doe we pretend to the
fmalleft hope of recovering them by words, meffages, or any peaceable means
from their paths of deftruction ; neither doe we contradict what is fpoken
of the evident and imminent hazard of Scotland to have their church and
kingdome embroyled in all the miferies of England, the religion and liberties
of both kingdomes being laid up together in the fame veiTell ; and the fpirit,
the way, the intereft, the fafetie of the faction, dryving them on to the
mattering of the utmoft corners of all the three Kingdomes ; yea, if the winds
doe favour, to farr larger defigns and higher interprifes ; for who can forget
Cromwell's threatning with his army, in the face of Parliament, the very walls
of Conftantinople.
If thus farr we be agreed, what hinders us from getting prefently up, hand
in hand, to the way ? Certainly the retardments come from ane other fide of the
Houfe than that which is called ours ; even from them who fo willfully, and, as
I am bold to terme it, imprudently, have refufed all this while to give us fatif-
faction in three things which we efteeme moft neceffare for us to have, and
eafie for others to grant, without all prejudice to any of then* avowed ends.
We defire that our Covenant, Religion, and Liberties, purchafed of old and
maintained of late at very high rates, may not by this new Warre be putt in a
condition every way as hazardous as they (land in this day, which we think
will be the cafe, if it be not provided for, after all the blood, lofies, hazards,
labours of the nixt warre, even when we have obtained our end, the totall
overthrow of the Sectarian faftion ; for then the King, though nothing
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changed in his mind, mud be fet up, and enabled with his former partie of
malignants to act more vigoroufly than ever in all the three Kingdomes. The
yoke of tyrannic in the ftate, of poperie and prelacie in the Church, is lyklie
to be put upon our neck, with alfe violent a hand as ever.
That we may be guarded againft this apparent mifchief, we require bot two
things ; and a third for fecuritie of thefe two when granted. Firft, That the
King be not entrufted with the full exercife of his Royall power, till he have
given all affurance, that is poifible for him in his prefent condition, of his own
confent and concurrence to fettle the folemne League, and Religion according
unto it, in all the three Kingdomes. We require not this as a previous condi
tion to the King's refcue, or to the putting of him in as good a condition as
he was in before the faction feafed on his perfon. We are not againft any
honor, freedome, or fafetie which the Parliaments of both Kingdomes mail
think meet to grant him for a treatie, before a full fettlement ; nor doe we
fpeake of capitulations for keeping of Monarchick government in the King's
poileritie ; only we require the forefaid condition to be previous to his Majef-
tie's.exercife of Royaltie, who hes declared his willingnefs to putt upon him-
felf a harder condition than this in hand, the renouncing of all power in the
militia, and nomination of officers of ftate in England and Ireland, with
diverfe other things of great importance dureing his whole life.
This our firft Demand is no other than that which both our Kirk and State
hes oft craved before in exprefle tearms ; and, that which fome men compted
the great rock of this demand, we are content to remove for a demonftra-
tione of our earneftnefs to comply : we are willing to change the negative
expreflions of our Kirk and State into affirmatives ; we infift only upon the
thing it felf, a real fecuritie for our Covenant and Religion. This we truft will
not be fo much (luck at by the King himfelfe, for readilie his Majeftie is not
fo much here pinched with confcience as fome talks of : We know what laws
he hes been content to pafle in Scotland for the Covenant and Prefbytery,
alfo what was promifed to Ireland for Popery, and what in England for
libertie to Seels and Errours. We are very hopefull that all we prefle for the
Covenant and Prefbytery mail be obtained, if our State can be but conftant to
crave what all reafon urges to be granted.
Our fecond Demand is, that the Malignant partie of papifts, prelates, and
others oppofite to our Covenant, may not be permitted to rife to fuch, a
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ftrength as may enable them to give us the law ; for this end we crave that
all of them who are willing to joyne in annes with us, doe joyne like wife in
the Covenant. We are perfuaded that many of them are not impeded fo
much by fcruple of confcience, as reafons of ftate and oppofition of humour
to take that oath ; and we verily hope the mod of them (if dealt with iiv
earneft) would readily joyne with us in our way for the love of our common
end, to doe right to the King, and pull down the oppreffing faction of
Sectaries. Thefe of the Malignants, who will not joyne with us, let them
fit ftill and wait on till God change their minds : In this their quietnefs we
are not to trouble them.
We trull the unanimitie of Scotland, and the concurrence of the Prefbyte-
rian partie in England, by God's blefling, will be abundantly able to doe
the fervice ; only we delire not to be impeded by the rifmg of malignants in
diftinct armies of their owne, for if armies aryfe to purfue ends contrary
to our Covenant, and deftructive to our maine defigne, though in fome
things they goe along with us, how can we take them for friends, and not
be juftly affray ed that fo foon as they find it time, they will turne as bitter
enemies to us as fometime we have felt them, lince their principles remaine
unchanged.
In the matter of thefe two Demands, all I meet with profeffe a great
deale of reafon ; if there be any fcruple in the third and laft, let us
fhortly confider : — Here we doe only require a fecuritie for keeping what
fhall be promifed in the two former ; we have been fo foully deceaved by
many men who of late did make us very folemne promifes of conftant
friendfhip, that our fcrupulofity in any new undertaking might juftly be ex-
cufed, yet all the fecurity here we crave, is but a verie fimple one as the
affaires of the world now goe. What lefs can we require of men who avow
their full refolution to performe all we crave, than their oath to be conftant :
When we have agreed on all the reft, mail we differ in this ? What is it that
flumbles in our third demand ? Is it the matter of the oath ? There (hall be
nothing here bot what themfelves doe grant, and ufe to profeffe to be reafon-
able. Is it the forme of the oath ? What needs any fcruple to fwear what they
profeffe to be juft for the matter, and themfelves firmely refolved to per
forme. If this be flood upon, will it not give us juft caufe to fear that all
which is now promifed, is bot for ane allurement once to ingadge, and then
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to difappoint us of all our expectation ? Is there not a militarie oath required
of all armies ? What prejudice were it if to the ordinary articles of the warre,
fome few more were added for our fecuritie in our two demands, at lead for
the officers and committees, with a declaration of Parliament and Generall
Aflembly, injoyning fo much.
I remitt it to your ingenuity if our fticking upon thefe fo few, fimple, moft
neceflarie Demands, deferve the feveritie of that cenfure, which the unadvifed-
nefle of fome is pleafed to put upon us ; alfo whether it be not a great te
merity in them, who rather than to give us fatiffaction, choofe to goe on with
out us to prefent action, though they know that without our afliftance, a great
part of the people will neither have heart nor hand to concurre with them.
We are extreame forry for this precipitation, and affrayed of its ifTue. Where
are either their men, money, or ammunition, requilite for fuch ane undertak
ing ? Is not the enemie ready to receave them, and wayting on upon their
firft too well known defigne ? If they fhould be repulfed at firft, would it
not extreamlie difcourage their friends in England, and hazard the ruin of all
the remainder of the King's hopes ? Were it not good to flay but a little, till
a more wife and patient dealing did unite us at home, and we had fome time
to forme and furnifhe ane armie with things neceflare, and to flrengthen our
correfpondences abroad, in England, and elfewhere. The advantages of a
little delay feem to preponder all we can expect by too fudden a motion ;
the breaking of that handfull, which for the time we can fend into England,
may make the Prefbyterian partie there to faint, and give over all acting more
for themfelves ; may draw in upon Scotland fo much of the Sectarian armie as
will overrun all our plaine countrey, and in a fhort time infect our Church
with the leaven of their doctrine, and change the government of our eflate.
When wife men will not be pleafed to goe on in a way of reafon, to avoid
apparent dangers, occafion is given to fear their defignes, and of driveing
them on for fome purpofes of their owne. Certainly the picking of quarrells
with minifters, and moveing of controverfies betwixt the Parliament and
CommiflTion of the Church, at this nick of time, to the eyes of the mofl beholders,
proceeds either from little wifdome, or lefle fincerity to promote really the in
tended defigne of reftoring the King. Shall it be thought that wife men can
intend to make warre abroad for any good purpofe, when, in the beginning of
their enterprize, they keep up and increafe old divifions, and make more new
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quarrells at home. Men of judgment ufe to be perfuaded of reall intentions,
not by great words and deep oathes, but by confonancy of actions.
It were all the pities of the world, that, when we are fo near to a full una-
nimitie for a cheerfull atchieving of fo brave an enterprize as is now in hand,
we fhould by the malignant influence of any evill counfellors, moft need
lefllie fall a-pieces, and lay, by our owne hands, in the ruins of our Church,
State, neighbours, King, and pofteritie ; the advancement of the Sectarian
army to a higher pitch of power than yet they have attained, or fcarcely dare
expect. Wayes of faction, of proud and haughty difdaine, mindfullnefs of
wrongs, refolution to have all at under who fland in the way of our overrule-
ing, are unfitt medicines for our fore-fick and dying patients, whether the
King and Roy all Family, or our brethren of England, or our own much
weakened and exceedinglie endangered Countrey. — So much of our other
day's difcourfe have I drawn up for your memorie, that ye may know how
ready I am to ferve yow upon all occafions.
Edinburgh, March 8th 1648.
FOR MR. WILLIAM SPANG. MARCH 27™ [1648.]
REVEREND AND DEAR COUSINE,
IT'S now long fince I heard from yow : in my laft by the London poft,
I defyred yow to write allwayes what of mine yow receave, that I may know
what mifcarries ; alfo to try, with all the diligence yow can, who that Jean
Dalyell, fpoufe to James Reid, can be, who gott a teftimoniall from the minif-
ters of Gorcome of the birth of her fon. I deadly fufpect me is a whore
who is retired to bear her child to fome man of quality near us : it were
good to find it out. That book you wrote of, Res Gestce Marchionis Montis
Rosini,9 let us have it. It's a mervaill to me that any there mould be
taken with De Cartes's way : Revius demonftrates him a very ignorant
atheift. I have diverfe of bis former pieces ; fend to me what he has writ-
9 The well known work by Dr. George Wishart, -afterwards Bishop of Edinburgh, contain
ing a History of the War in Scotland under the conduct of the Marquis of Montrose, which
was published in 1647, under the title of " De Rebus fyc. sub imperio illustriss. Jacobl
Montisrosarum Marchionis, fyc. prceclare gestls, Commentarius"
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ten this lad yeare ; alfo the laft decade of Strada; with the foume of all my
compt I am in your debt : though I oft offered, yet did your Mother never
call for a pennie from me. She and all friends are well. Your Nephew,
I hope, (hall prove a gelly ladd ; but how all is in Glafgow, I doe not know,
for thefe fix weeks I have been in Edinburgh. I thank God I have
gotten the differences betwixt the Principall and Mr. David, reasonable
well compofed ; this halfe year no difpleafure betwixt them.
In our great perplexities at home, it's fome comfort to us when we look
abroad, that your churches, and thefe of France and Suits [Switzerland], en-
joyes a happie quietnefs, both ecclefiafticall and civill. I am glad there is fo
little dinn of Ameraut's new queftions. Alfo we bleffe God that the Swedes
yet can keep the fields in Germanie, and that cruell perfecutor and opprefier
of Bavier is yet likely to be taken order with by the Swedes and French ; and
that the old cruelties of Spayne are now come to remembrance ; that Portu-
gall with all its appurtenances, that Catalonia and Naples doe flill preferve
themfelves : It mud be the juftice of the great revenger upon that proud and
uBJuft croune. If Modena could bring Millaine lykewife to revolt, Italy
would be quite of all forraigne yocks ; but I fear the fall of Spayne mall lay
open thefe parts of Chriilendome to the Ottoman invafion ; yet that the
Venetian alone for fo long a tyme hes been able to fuftaine the warre in
Creta, againft the whole flrength of that enemie, puts me in hope that
the danger of them is not fo great as fometimes it hes been. The fpoill of
Heffen and continuance of the Palatine's miferies, afflict us. We have no
more of thefe forraigne affaires, than what yow and the London moderate
intelligence furaifh us.
He is wyfer than a man who can informe what courfe our affaires here
will take. This is the feventh week that I have been forced to attend in
Edinburgh ; and yet we fee fmall appearance of any good conclufion ; but
as they are I make yow the accompt of them. After that the King found
himTelf difappointed of all the fair hopes made to him by Cromwell and
his partie, whether on their repentance, or their feare from Lilburne, Rainfbo-
rough, and their levelling friends, our Commiffioners made more ferious
applications, and were more acceptable than before. At the Me of Wight,
his Majeftie did live with them very lovinglie ; and upon great hopes on
all hands, Traquair, Sir John Cheefly, Callander, and all that came home
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before them, gave it out confidently, in the generall, that the King had
given to our Commiffioners full fatiffaclion. This caufed great joy, and a
readinefs in all to rife in arms quickly for his deliverance. But when I found
all bound up by oath, [not] to reveale any of the particular conceffions till the
Commiffioners returned, I feared the fatiffaction mould not be found fo fatif-
factory as wes fpoken. The too long and Uriel; fecrefie bred prejudice in the
minds of the wifeft : and when we heard the report from the Chancellour
and Lauderdale at their returne, our fufpicions were turned into griefe : for
we found the conceffions no ways fatiffa6lory, and the engagement of fome to
the King upon them fo great, as did much blemiih their reputation with many
of their moft intime friends. Our debates more than a fortnight were to
come to the bottom of thefe offers, and to find way how we might be free of
them. We were malcontent with our Commiffioners : their fcurvy ufage by
the Parliament of England, their compaffion of the King's condition, Lane-
rick's power with Lauderdale, and both their workings on the Chancellour,
made them to accept of leffe, and promife more to the King, than we would
{land to. They were content we fhould declare our unfatiffa6lion with the
King's offers as we thought fitt, both by the Church and State, on condition
we would confent to a leavie againft the faction of Sectaries. To this we
were not unwilling, provyding we might be fatiffied in the ftate of the quef-
tion, and might be affured, that the armie mould be putt in fuch hands as we
might confide in. Both thefe were promifed to us in private ; but while we
found no performance, the buffinefs is retarded to this day. Betwixt the
Chancellour, Duke, Argyle, Treafurer, Lauderdale, Lanerick, Balmerino, War-
riftone, Mr. Robert Dowglafs, Mr. George Gillefpie, Mr. David Calderwood,
Mr. Robert Blair, Mr. David Dickfone, Mr. Samuell Rutherfoord, many
meetings have been had, night and day, private and publick ; but as yet our
difcords increafe, and are ready to breake out in a fearfull rupture both of
Church and State. Our meetings were long in private for a ftate of a quef-
tion ; we required peremptorily to ftand to our former principles and Cove
nant ; " To have religion fettled firft ; and the King not reftored till he had
given fecurity, by his oath, to confent to ane Aft of Parliament for injoyn-
ing the Covenant in all his dominions, and fettling religion according to the
Covenant." We ftuck many days on that negative expreffion, " The King
not to be reftored till he had fworn -the Covenant." Thus much had both
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our Parliament and Aflemblie preffed upon him at Newcaftle ; yet at laft we
were content of affinnitive expreflions : " Religion and the Covenant to be
fettled, and thereupon the King to be reftored." The next difficultie in the
queftion was about the Malignants : we were peremptore to have none of
them in our arraie who (hould not take the Covenant, and to have all of
them declared enemies who {hould aryfe in armies by themfelves for any end
contrare to our caufe. Here we had great flrugleing : In the wryte, which
we called ane Agreement and Engagement, they the King's Offers, too great
favour, was (hewed to Malignants : we refolved to beware of them fo much
the more. The greateft flick of all was on the oath : we refolved to have
thefe things put in a formall oath, to be taken folemnlie by all the members
of Parliament and officers of our armie ; they declined ane oath by all
means. While we are like to come to no agreement about thefe things,
the pulpits found loud againft the dangers from Malignants, but more foftlie
againfl Sectaries. We prepare alfo a Declaration of dangers and duties,
wherein we exprefle to the full our difatiffaction with the King's concefiions
in' matters of religion. This gave a great offence to our Commiflioners.
We had put them to it to give us in wryte the report of what paft between
them and the King concerning religion ; for his Majeftie in his letter to us
had faid, he had offered to them what he was confident would give us fatif-
faction. While they are neceffitate to give us in wryte thefe private concef-
fions, and be content to have them, and our reafons againft them, publifhed
to the world ; they were not a little offended : but there was no remeed.
To our fence, they had paft the bounds of their dutie, though both the Com
mittee of Eftates, and Parliament itfelfe, had, in a faire generall, without ex
amination, approved all they had done. We thought it deftructive to our
caufe and Covenant, and ourfelves abfolutelie impeded from all motion for the
King till thefe grounds of motion were publicklie difcl aimed. It increafed
our offence, that fo many noblemen did vex us with debates and votes
openlie in face of the Commiflion, after we had changed, in private, for the
fatiffaction of the Chancellour and Lauderdaill, many paffages of our wryte ;
alfo that they had laboured to their power to make a partie among the minif-
ters to oppofe us, Mr. Andrew Ramfay, Mr. Andrew Fairfoule, Mr. Robert
Laurie, Mr. Andrew Affleck, and diverfe others ; but efpeciallie Mr.
William Colville, who had in private objected againft one paffage, inferring
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the neceffitie upon conference to reftore the King prefentlie to the exercife of
his full regall power in all his dominions, notwithftanding of all he had done,
without any condition, either of Covenant, Religion, or Propofitions ; that we
were oblieged to doe this duetie unto him, and never more to oppofe till we
found him abufe this power ; and then we might refifl, albeit no more but
the abufe of this power. I did think it enough in our fub-committee to
bring him to acknowledge fo fhamefull a tenet, all of us thinking he would
not have the boldnefs any more in publick to fpeak to fuch a purpofe ; yet
in the face of the Commiffion, in a very jeering infolent way, being a little
provoked by the indifcreet challenge of Mr. Rutherfoord, he did offer to
reafon for fuch a conclufion. We had not failled to have called him to ane
accompt for his malapertnefs, had not the intervention of other greater
affairs diverted us.
By this time the Parliament was fett. Never fo many noblemen prefent
in any of our Parliaments ; near fyftie Earls and Lords. Among whom
were found but eight or nyne for our way ; Argyle, Eglintone, Caflillis,
Louthian, Arbuthnot, Torphichen, Rofie, Balmerino, Cowper, Burleigh, and
fometimes the Chancellour and Balcarras. All the reft, with more than the
halfe of the barrens, and almoft the halfe of the burgeffes, efpeciallie the
greater tounes, Edinburgh, Perth, Dundee, Aberdeen, St. Andrews, Lin-
lithgow, ran in a firing after Duke Hamilton's vote. That partie, belides
the advantage of the number of two at leaft to one, had lykewife the mofl
of the ablefl fpeakers. For us none did fpeak but Argyle and Warriilon,
and fometymes Caflillis and Balmerinoch ; but they had the Duke, the Thefau-
rer, Lanerick, Lauderdale, Traquair, Glencarne, Cochrane, Lee, all able fpokes-
men ; yet the other partie had the advantage of reputation, having from
the beginning been conftant in our caufe : alfo all the afliftance the Church
could make was for them. The firfl bickering was for our Declaration :
when, contrare to their minds, we had paft it, they were earneft it might
not be publiftied ; but we had given order, as ever had been our cuftome, to
print it, even before we had communicate it to the Parliament. They had
diverfe purpofes, either by perfwafion or violence, to have keept it in ; but
we let it goe out on Monday, and ordained it to be read on Sunday there
after in all the Kirks of Edinburgh, and about. That which haflened it out
was our irritation by the Thefaurer's challenge of Argyle on the Monday
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morning; ane unhappie accident, that was ready to have kindled the fire
amongfl us all, had not the Lord prevented it. Argyle's enemies had of
a long tyme burdened him, among many (landers, with that of cowardice
and cullionrie. On the Fryday afternoon in Parliament, difcourfmg merrilie
with the Thefaurer, he faid, He heard of a meeting whereat the Theafurer
had been the other night. Speaking a little of this purpofe, he appre
hended, that the Thefaurer had faid, not only that the bed men of the
kingdome had been at that meeting, but alfo that himfelfe was a better man
than he. Upon this, Argyle goes out of the Houfe in anger, and calls for
Major Innes, who had fitten at both their feet, and heard their difcourfe, to
know if he had heard the Thefaurer fay, that himfelfe was a better man than
Argyle. Innes did not avow the words; but being fent to the Thefaurer
from Argyle, to try if he had fpoken fo, he faid, He would not make ac-
compt to Argyle what he faid ; but whatever it was, he would make it good
with his fword. Upon this, Argyle defired him to appoint tyme and place ;
and on the Sunday, a publick faft-day, the Thefaurer fent back word, after
both fermons, that on Mufleburgh Links, at feven o'clock to-morrow morn
ing, he mould meet him, and bring a nobleman for a fecond. Innes, albeit
no great friend to Argyle, not only offered himfelfe to Argyle for a fecond,
but told him he would refent it as a wrong if he were not admitted ; fo
Argyle with no flefti but Innes, the Thefaurer and Lanerick his fecond, did
meet. Incontinent all were mifled, and many rann out to all quarters to
fearch them ; and, by God's providence, before they began their pley, fome
fell on them, and made them part without a flrocke. The counfell that
night, with much adoe, gott them to a profefled coldryfe friendftiip. We
had refolved in the Commiffion of the Church, to have made both before
the congregation acknowledge their fault; fo much the more, as Sinclare
and David Lefley, Eglintone and Glencarne, fome dayes before ; and fome
dayes after, Kenmure and Cranftone, had been on the like engagements :
but other matters put that out of our heads.
The publifliing of our printed Declaration put fome of the Parliament on
many hard thoughts of us ; but the refult of all was, the calling of fix of us
to conferr with fix of their great committee upon a (late of a queftion. For
them were, Lauderdale, Lanerick, Humbie, Lee, Archibald Sidferfe, and Sir
Alexander Wedderburn, with the Chancellour ; for us, Mr. David Calder-
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wood, Mr. David Dickfone, Mr. George Gillefpie, Craighall, Libbertone, I,
with the Moderator Mr. Robert Dowglafs. They produced to us a draught
of a declaration, penned with a great deall of deliberation, by the counfell of
many, but fpecially by Lanerick's pen. They had flandered us exceedinglie,
as oppofite to all warre with the Englifh Sectaries in any termes. To clear
that miftake, I wrote, and put in diverfe hands, Lanerick's among others, the
paper which herewith I fend yow. Their draught did endeavour to give pretty
good fatiffaction to moft of our doubts ; yet, after one day's advyfement,
we found it fo unfatiffactorie, that themfelves were content we mould take it
to our confideration to be corrected as we found expedient. Mr. Gillefpie
and my Lord Warriflone had drawne ane oath of aflbciation, which pleafed
themfelves well, but their oppoiites extreamly ill, and their befl friends but fo
and fo, when beft corrected. In our draught we took fo much of their de
claration, and our friends oath of affociation, as we thought made a date of
a queftion which mould be fatiffactorie to all ; and here, to my great joy,
were we on the very nick of a cordiall agreeance : but behold ane mod un-
happie accident, which did put us to, and yet hes keeped us in, a difcord almoil
irreconcileable. There was a great defyre in the cheife that were for ane
engagment, to feafe on Berwick and Carlifle, both for the extreame great
advantage of thefe places, and alfo to beginne the warre, for the encourage-
ing of our friends abroad, and wakening our people at home. This they
counted no wrong, nor invafion of England ; their quarrell being only againft
the Sectaries and their adherents, for vindicating of our Covenant, for the
refcue of the King, and Parliament, and opprefled Covenanters. Ane in-
diction needed not againft this enemie: the tounes of England, for our
paffing and fafe retreat in the profecution of the common caufe, ought to
be patent ; yet the moft of us were averfe from this defigne, and had long
kept it off. In a few dayes we found the Parliament, two parts for one,
otherwife affected than we wiftied. So foon as it was conftitute, there was
ane inclination to make a clofe committee for the greateft affaires: fix of
every ftate were named. So long as their power was not determined, we
were not ftartled ; but fo -foone as they gott ane abfolute power to doe what
was fitting for the fafetie of the Kingdome, in relation to Berwick and Car
lifle, incontinent all was alarmed. Forty-feven of the truftieft members of
Parliament did proteft againft that vote. The proteftation was not admitted :
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you have the copy here ; but the protefters thereafter did keep themfelves
together ; and albeit the lead, yet they keeped the reputation of the bed
part of the Parliament. Privately and publickly we gave warning, that the
paffing of fuch a vote would break us irrecovereably ; but we were beleeved
too late. My Lord Callander's partie were fo furiouflie earneft to poflefTe
Berwick, and to begin action, that they threatened to defert Hamilton
and his friends if they did delay that vote any longer : fo it pafled, not-
withftanding our earneft intreatings, and our friends proteftations to the
contrare. The iflue was, we refufed to conferr any more on the Hate of ane
queftion. The protefters confirmed their union. Many of the (hires fent in
to fupplicat againft all engagement, unlefs the Kirk were fatiffied in the ftate
of a queftion. David Lefley, and Holborne, with the reft of the officers, de
clared their refolution, not to move without our fatiffaction. ..After fome
dayes conteft, we found a great change. The Chancellour, that had hitherto
been too fair for the engagers, offended with their unreafonable proceedings,
came almoft wholly off them to us his old friends and beft. The chieff of
the Duke's friends came to entreat us to accept all we could defyre, to ftate
the queftion according to our mind, to be afiured to have fuch in our armies
and committees as we lyked, to give over the furprife of Berwick, and all
acting by the clofe committee. Thefe things, by the Thefaurer and others,
were offered to us, with many faire and earneft exprefiions. As yet we are
not fatiffied by words, and fome of our leaders are likely never to be fatiffied,
and refolves to truft to nothing which their oppofits can doe or fay, fo long
as this Parliament, which they pronounce unfound, is in being. The danger
of this rigiditie is lyke to be fatall to the King, to the whole Ifle, both
Churches and States : we mourne for it to God. Though it proceed from
two or three men at moft, yet it feems remedielefs : if we be keeped from
a prefent civill warre, it's God, and not the wifdome of our moft wife and
beft men, which will fave us. I am more and more in the mind, that it
were for the good of the world, that Churchmen did meddle with Eccle-
fiaftick affaires only ; that were they never fo able otherwife, they are un-
happie ftatefmen; that as Eraftiane Caefaro-Papifme is hurtfull to the
Church, fo ane Epifcopall Papa-Caefarifme is unfortunate for the State. If
no man were wifer than I am, we mould not make fo many fcruples to fettle
the throne, and pull down the fectaries. Never more high and more dan-
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gerous queftions in Scotts hand : what the conclufion mall be, a few days
will declare.
While we are (licking in thefe labyrinths, one of our number, not of
the moft rigid, falls on the overture to propone the Commiflion of the
Generall Affemblie's defires altogether immediately to the Parliament,
wherein, if we gott fatiffaclion, we were to goe on as they defyred us, to
ftate a queftion. The motion was approved. His draught of eight articles,
after fome changes of it to the worfe, was pad, and prefented, in name of
the Commiffion of the Church, by Mr. Robert Blair, Mr. Robert Ramfay,
and I. For anfwer, the eighteen of their firft great committee, with the
addition of fix more, twenty-four in all, the prime members of Parliament,
were appointed to conferr with us on thefe our defyres. The Commiffion,
to thefe fe,ven who had mett before with the fub-Committee of Parliament
upon their Declaration, added Mr. Robert Blair and Mr. Andrew Cant.
On the Thurfday, before noon, they went through the firft five of our de-
lyres. All the flicking was on the fyfth, wherein we prefied to have the
Malignants who fhould ryfe in armes by themfelves declared enemies, as well
as Sectaries. This was contrare to the King's agreement with fome, and
their intentions, who, without the help of Malignants, made the worke im-
poffible. At laft we carried the article. In the afternoone we had almoft
differed on the lixth, the King's oath to confent to ane A61 of Parliament
for enjoyning the Solemn League before his reftitution to the exercife of the
royall power. We preffed him not to take the Covenant ; but whatever his
confcience was, we conceaved him bound to confent to the neceflare lawes
of the Kingdome. Thus his good-dame Queen Mary afTented to the Ac~ls
of Parliament for the Reformed Religion. This alfo did paffe for the fub-
ftance ; only a committee was appointed to fmooth fome expreffions about
the King's reftitution. We had no power to recede from any word, and fo
would not be at any committee for changing any exprefiion, but believed
the Commifiion of the Kirk would not flick at words, if the matter were
well fecured. On the feventh article, for manageing the war by confident
hands, there was not much debate. We could here fall on no words which
might not be granted, and yet little for our advantage ; albeit on this was the
greateft of all our difficulties. Upon the conftitution of the army depended
all our human fafety, hope, and fecuritie of whatever elfe was granted. It
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goes now fo, that no truft remaines to any words or oathes ; except there
fore force were in the hands of our friends, we refolved not to fturr ; and
yet we could not crave any fuch particulare, but had neceflitie to have it
done one way or other. Some underhand did move to have the Duke
General! . Callander and his friends were carefull to free us of this feare ;
for generally all but the Duke's owne followers doubted much the finceritie
of his intentions, either for Religion or for the King ; albeit I confeffe, when
ever I heard him or his Brother fpeake in earned, they feemed to me to give
ample fatiffaction ; but as yet they have not the fortune to be much believed
by many. Ochiltrie's bufinefs (licks ftill in the throats of fome. Upon too
great probabilitie, Callander, by his owne partie, which is great, is wifhed
Generall : but his inflexibilitie to ferve againft Montrofe, upon the fenfe of
private injuries, whereby indelible marks of difgrace were printed on the face
of Scotland, and his very ambiguous proceedings in England at Hereford and
elfewhere, make us that we dare not put our lives and religion in his hand.
David Lefley and Holborne are more beloved by us. The old Generall, for
all his innrmitie, is acceptable ; alfo Middleton, and the Generall of the artil
lery, will not be refufed. In private we were affured thefe mould be the Ge
nerall Officers ; but we will not be affured without fight, and our maine dif-
ficultie will be upon the committees to govern the State and Army in the in-
tervalls of the feilions of Parliament. If herein they permitt them whom we
count truftie, to have full power, when they can carry what they will in Par
liament, it's a great wonder ; yet if in this we gett no fatiffaclion, nothing elfe
will fatiffie : we expect little debate on the eighth article, to have ane oath
for all this ; but herein we were peremptor, and hopes to obtaine. It was
my wifh, that only the Parliament and officers of the army (hould fweare, and
that the body of the land mould be put to no more oaths ; but it feems this
aflbciation muft be no leffe fworne than our two former Covenants.
While thus farr we had proceeded on Thurfday, I thought we were as
good as agreed ; fo I refolved to go home to-morrow ; for the opening of our
provinciall Synod lay on me as the lad Moderator ; alfo a new very dangerous
infection was broken up in Glafgow, and come to my very gates. Upon
thefe reafons, after eight weeks flay, I gott leave from the Commiffion to re-
turne ; albeit very hardly, for our bufinefs wes not fully clofed, and I had
immediate accefle and truft with fundry of the moil leading men, with whom
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I was efteemed to do no evill fervice ; while others, by their way, did irritate
more : Alfo we had refolved to have reafon of Mr. William Colvill and his
followers for their great and dangerous infolency, not fo much in their open
contempt neglecting to read our Declaration, as in their fermons and private
negotiations, both with noblemen and minifters, to frame a faction for divid
ing of our Church, wherein the peremptor rigidity of fome, the too great
fimplicity of others, and the evill talents of more, gave them occafion to make
too great progrefle ; but having flayed till I declared myfelfe abundantlie
againft thefe men, and helped to bring them low, and put them in a way
either to recant or be cenfured, I came away on the Fryday morning, and to
my owne houfe at night, with one mower from Falkirk, a wearie Monfieur.
The Colledge was almoft totally diflblved for fear of the plague. My little
daty was extreamely ficke, of a fudden, fo I found great appearance of the
peft in my houfe ; yet againft the morrow, the Lord, on as great a fudden,
reftored my child to her full health. Since, we are waiting on the Lord's
pleafure, what he will doe with Glafgow, whether yet it may be fpared from
the plague, whereof I am not defperat ; and what mall be the next act of
the long tragedie among us. Much fpeech of the Prince's coming : as yet our
affaires are not in a condition to receave him as I could wi(h ; but ere long
he may be welcome. I cannot, of certaine knowledge, hear any thing of
that youth, whereby I can conjecture, on any hand, what to hope or feare.
His Mother's unkindnefs to the Queen of Boheme and her fones is vifibly
retaliate in the eyes of all Europe. My beft wifhes are for the ref-
titution of King James's family : before this, I fee no appearance of any
folid peace, either to Germany or Brittaine. This long letter mail be a
ground of a challenge, if yow wryte fo rare and fo ftiort as this while bygone.
Farewell.
Glafgow, this 28th of March 1648.
I have oft proponed to yow, which yet I repeat, that it would be a good
fervice to fchollars, and profitable for printers, if yow could, by yourfelfe
and friends there, ftur up fome of your Amfterdam and Leiden ftationers to
print by the alone, the Chaldee Bible with a Latine verfion interlinear, or
otherwife, in one or two volumes ; Buxflorph's Bible, and the new Paris one
would furnifh good helpe for the right printing ; alfo ane Arabick Bible and
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a Syriack Bible interlinear, and well printed, would not faill to fell; and
the Paris Bible, which few doe or may buy, would furnifli a good prototype.
It would likewife doe much good if young Buxftorph would print over his
Father's Mafora and Rabbin commentares, in one book, in common Hebrew
letters, with the points and Latine expofition. Give me ane account if any
thing may be gotten done of this kind.
FOE MR. Z[ACHARY] B[OYD.]
WE are to intimate that this prefent Engagement, as it is dated in the
Parliament's Declaration, is holden by the Kirk to be unlawfull upon thefe
three grounds efpecially : —
1. That the end of it is to bring the King to London with honour, free-
dome, and fafety, without fo much as craveing from him any fecurity for
Religion, though he ftill declares himfelfe as much for Epifcopacie, and averfe
from our Covenant, as ever.
2. Becaufe all the Malignants in England and Ireland are permitted to rife
in alfe many armies as they can, and we refuife to take them as before for
enemies, except they profefs to oppofe us or the Covenant ; this quicklie
makes our former enemies our maflers.
3. The manageing of this Warre is putt in the hands principallie of thefe
men, whofe bygone life and known profeffions declare they mind not reli
gion ; and they who have hitherto, in our bygone troubles, been mod emi
nent inftruments of God and the countrey, for the advancement of the
worke of religion, and the liberty of the land, are muffled by, and all
power plucked out of their hands.
Thefe and many more reafons make us, (who were moft cordiall for a
Warre, againft the Sectaries of England and their adherents, for the vindica
tion of our Covenant, for the delyverance of our opprefled brethren in
England, for the refcuing of our King from his unjuft imprisonment, and
reftoreing of him to the exercife of his royall power, upon his performance
of thefe neceflare duties which the Parliaments of both Kingdomes did re
quire from him ; and for the preservation of our Church and State from the
violence of that evill faction of fe&aries, whofe principles drive at the evert-
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ing of the foundations of all government, both of Church and State of the
whole Me : We are hindered notwithftanding,) that we cannot joyne in the
prefent Engagement, which is faid to be againfl them, fince it's evident that
the courfe now taken is either not truely againfl them, but will tend to their
eftabliftiment, as many fear, or elfe for fetting up in their place our former
enemies, for the overthrow of all we have been doing thefe eleven years. So
in our judgement, none who will feriouflie mind religion and a good con-
fcience, will joyne either in perfone, goods, or counfell, in this undertaking ;
and if by violence they be drawne to give any afiiftance, they muft be con
tent prefently to fuffer what may be put upon them, rather than to a6l any
thing that may promove that which they efteem unlawfull.
FOR MR. M[ATTHEW] B[RISBANE.]
IF the difcord goe on, it's humanlie impoffible to efchew either a grievous
perfecution, or a civill warre at home, and a totall neglect of the pretended
welfare of the King. For a remeed, I wifh the Parliament gave a good
anfwer to our fupplications, and fufpended the leavy for a fortnight, and
appointed a conference betwixt a doffan of the wifeft of both fides. I think
we muft have fatiffaction in four things, in ane explanatorie Declaration :
1. That the State will not take from the Church the antecedent judgement
in any matter of religion. 2. That before the King's full freedome, they will
crave of him fecurity for Religion. 3. That we declare, as before, againft
Malignants in armes, without If 's or And's. 4. That in the Armie and
Committees, men of conftant integritie may have much more power. Some
things of this kind, I wim were offered, and that fo foon as may be.
FOR MR. WILLIAM SPANG. JUNE 26-TH [1648.]
REVEREND AND DEAR COUSIN,
SINCE my laft, March 28th, I have heard nothing from yow, nor long be
fore. Our affaires fince have had a great progrefs, but no inch to the better;
all appearance of any poffibilitie to agree, daylie does more and more
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evanifh. A fpirit of bitternefs, jealoufie, and mutuall contempt, grows on
all hands, and the ftronger partie is begun to perfecute the weaker ; and
that evill is lyke much to increafe quicklie. The courfe of affaires may
draw both, befide any intention, to doe the worfl of that which has been
objected to either as their defigne. The fectaries and malignants may
fhortlie divide the whole Ifle, to the great danger and hurt of the King and
the honeft Prefbyterians in both kingdomes. Our florm is yet but waxing ;
we can make but fmall judgement of its end.
When I clofed my laft to yow, as then I wrote, there was fome good hope
of concord, a pretty good anfwer was expected to our eight defy res ; but
fome unhappie men made all thefe hopes to flee away. The Committee of
twenty-four framed their anfwer, and gott it paft in ane Act of Parliament,
before it came to the Commifiion of the Kirk. They to whom the confider-
ation of it was committed, looked fo narrowly into every word of it, that they
found fnares in every other line, and not one of our eight defyres fatiffied.
This much the Commiflion reprefented in a new paper, [and] added a new
defyre, to declare againft the negative voice of the King, which the Commif-
fioners papers in England had fo much prefled. This draught of Mr. Ja[mes]
G[uthrie's,] in theabfence of Mr. George G[illefpie,] was as ill taken when it
came to the Parliament as any other, and fo was as good as laid ufide, till in the
large Declaration they gave it ane anfwer. In the mean time, they putt out
the act of pofture for fetting all the Kingdome in a defence againft invafion ;
but in few dayes comes out the act of leavy, which, incontinent, allarumed all.
The firft narrative was ill taken, a danger from the Malignants that had
taken Berwick and Carlifle. The world knew there was no danger to us
from them, for they had been with us in Edinburgh, and their enterprize
upon Berwick and Carlifle was generally beleaved not to have been under
taken without fome of our privities. The act therefore, before publishing,
was helped, grounding our leavy on the danger from the army of fectaries,
which thefe furprifes would draw downe on our Borders ; and in this there
is lyke to be no falfe prophecy.
Here it was where our difference began firft to be irreconcilable. We
ftood on the managers of the warre as much as any one thing. The com
mittees of (hyres, and crowners for the pofture, were indifferent ; but when
it came to the leavy, generally all the crowners of horfe and foot were
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chofen as my Lords Hammilton and Callander lyked. Our friends here gott
very little of their will ; but the cope-done was putt upon our defpaire,
when we found Hammilton and Callander, how much contrare foever one to
another, yet at laft, after there had been much fpeech and dealing of either
to joyne with Argyle, and that, through whofe fault I know not, had mif-
caryed; at laft I fay, Hammilton and Callander did joyne too friendly to our
prejudice, and that in thefe termes, beiides other, that the Duke mould be
Generall, and the Earle his Lieutenant. Both of them to that time had been
oppofed to the employment of either ; and fo long as they had any hope of
our complyance, both profefled a great deale of willingnefs to continew the
old generall officers, without any change, and each offered to marre the em
ployment of the other ; but when they could not draw our friends to ingage
in any termes lyking them, then peremptorilie they ftrooke hands, and went
on without much more notice of us.
With threats and promifes they moved old Lefley to lay downe his place.
For a long time we had hopes the army, which wee had keeped from dif-
folving, mould have been firme to us ; but Middleton fpoiled that our hope.
All the officers had joyned in a fupplication to the Parliament backing the
defyres of the Kirk. Had this been flood to, the defignes of others had
foon been broken ; bot Middleton, who long had fhifted fubfcription, at laft
was willing to joyne, with ane addition of a fhort poftfcript of the fubfcribers
willingnefs notwithftanding to obey all the Parliament's directions. This
commentare did fo enervate the text, that our friends perfuaded the officers
to lay afide their petition, as that which was profitable for nothing, being
clearlie emafculat by the poftfcript. From that day we loft the Army.
David Lefley, by much dealling of many, was made willing to keep his place ;
yet afterward he repented, and gave it over; and fo did Holborne, and
diverfe more of the moft gallant of their officers, when they faw the Church's
advyce totally neglected.
Thefe things did grieve much the fpirits of many, and I believe few more
deeply than my owne, fo that my health by griefe for many dayes was im
paired; yet, by the importunitie of many, I was (before fully recovered)
drawn back againe to Edinburgh. Then I found that matters totally were
defperate. Lauderdaill with greif, the Thefaurer with many tears, told me,
how fore againft their heart they went the way now they were in, cafting the
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wyte on others ; who yet attired me, for their parts, that they found never
any truth in the faire general 1 offers was made them, when it came to any
particular. However, then the dyce was cad, every fide were ingaged to go
on in their own way.
The Declaration, long and well ftudied, and penned moft by Lanerick, in
very plaufible termes, was offered to us. We appointed a committee for it.
It was my advice to be fliort in obferving, and to pitch but on the maine
exceptions. On fundry we agreed, and what fome offered of their own con
cepts I gott out ; yet falling to take phyfick, I was forced to keep my chamber
ten days with a dangerous fuperpurgation. In this intervall Mr. Gillefpie,
without much contradiction, gott in[to] his reprefentation whatever either
himfelfe or Wfarriftone] or G[uthrie] had collected, which made it tediouflie
long, and in fundry things needleflie quarrelfome, and to come fo late, that
the Parliament, after ten days waiting for it, at Lauderdaill's cankered mo
tion, commanded their Declaration to goe out without any more notice of
what we had to fay againft it.
At this time a meflenger went to the Parliament of England with fyve
demands, craveing an anfwer peremptorilie in fifteen dayes. That which
they feared moft was to ingage in any treaty. This we ever preifed, but
they thought it needlefs, fince they quarrelled not with the Parliament, but
with the army and their adherents, with whom they were not oblidged to
treat, and loffe the feafon of the Englifh motions at home. The rumour of
our warre made great fturrs in many parts both of England and Ireland, and
put the Parliament to alter much of their former way, to grant London their
militia, the Tower, the guard of the Parliament as before, the freedome of
their imprifoned Aldermen, the recalling of the eleven members to their
places, the reftoreing the impeached Lords, the making Warwick Admirall of
the Navy : the Army alfo was forced to divide ; Cromwell to Wales, where
yet he (licks ; Fairfaxe to the north ; but in his march he was recalled to
fupprefle the Kentifh : The moft of the fhires were on their feet. Had not
our unhappie difcords marred our expedition ; had we with a fmall army,
with any unanimitie, but appeared on the Border in time, appearandly, with
out ftrokes, we might have gotten for the King, for our friends, for ourfelves,
what we pleafed ; but our fatall difcords were as well known at London as
at Edinburgh, fo leafure is taken by Fairfaxe to quiet Kent and Eflex, and
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by Cromwell to hold down Wales, and by others to keep in Cornewall.
Lambert in Yorkfhire had time to keep back Langdale from York and
Lancashire ; and great pains are taken to joine the Prefbyterians and the
Independents againfl all the ryfers in the Ihires, and our army, as againft
Malignants. If this conjunction goe on, both the King and our Nation is in
a hard taking.
In the mean time the Parliament and Commiffion proceed in their paper-
differences. Their Declaration and our Reprefentation are both printed.
They goe on to act, we to preach, againfl the lawfullnefs- of the Engagement
as it was flated. The randefvoufes are appointed for the mires againft the
21ft of May. Many prefbyteries, fynods, burghs, (hires, gave in fupplications
the firft of June, to delay the leavy till the Church gott fatiffaction. Our
poor towne, ftill fingular in that unhappinefs, is made the firft example of
fuffering. All of us, the towne-minifters, went up to fupplicat the Duke in
Hammilton, in the name of the Prefbyterie, to delay the lifting of our people
till our fupplications were anfwered by the Parliament. I fpoke oft, and at
length, to his Grace and Excellency, as Moderator of the Prefbyterie. We
gott courteous and civill words enough ; but deeds very bitter. Incontinent
all our magiflrates and toune-counfell, that fame night, were fummoned to
anfwer to the Parliament, for not keeping with their men the randefvous ; a
fault common to them with all their neighbour townes and (hires, yea with
the whole kingdome well near ; yet they were all caft in the tolbooth, and
kept there diverfe dayes ; and becaufe they profefled fcruple of confcience
to further the leavy, they were all deprived of their places, and a commiffion
fent to the old counfell that before was removed, to elect new magiftrates ;
who made leffe fcruple, than I wi(h, to (itt downe and name Colline
Campbell Provoft, John Anderfone, James Tran, William Neilfon, Baillies ;
and thefe, for a counfell, took the old cafheered men with a very little
change : fo great greefe is amongft the new faction in our toune, and too
great contentment in the old, to fee themfelves reftored to their places
by the fame men and means they were cafheered, the Parliament putting
them in, and others out, only for following the advyce of their minifters
and Commiffion of the Church.
But this is not all our mifery. Before this change, fome regiments of
horfe and foot were fent to our towne, with orders to quarter on no other
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but the raagiftrates, counfell, and feffion, and their lovers. Thefe orders
were exerced with rigour: on the mod religious people of our towne,
hudge burdens did fall ; on fome ten, on fome twenty, on fome thirty fo-
joure, and more, did quarter ; who, befide their meat and drink, wine and
good cheer, and whatever they called for, did exaft cruelie their daylie pay,
and much more. In ten dayes they coft a few honeft, but mean people,
above forty thoufand pounds [Scotifh money], befides plundering of thefe
whom neceflity forced to flee from their houfes. Our lofle and danger was
not fo great by James Grahame.
No relief gott we, but by a greater mifchief. Many yeomen in Clydef-
daill, upon fear to be leavied by force, had fled from their houfes to Loudoun
hill, and their had mett in a body of fome hundred horfe and foot. Sundry
of the fojours who had left the army, joyned with them. Much fpeech be
gan of a refiftance in the Weft. Too many minifters, both eaft and weft,
were faid to be for it, if there fhould appear a lykeliehood of a party. For
myfelfe, I was cleare againft all fuch thing : I thought we had neither a juft
caufe nor a good authority for any fuch matter, and the furtheft we might
goe was no more than fuffering. While we are on thefe debates, Callander
and Middleton comes weft on the Saturday 10th of June. About a fortnight
before, Argyle had mett with Eglintoun and Caflillis at Irwin : this meeting
gave a (hew to the talke of a refiftance in the Weft ; Fyfe alfo feemed to look
that way : but it appears now well, that the named noblemen, whatever they
mett for, did conclude of no fuch thing ; for Argyle prefently went home to
Inverary, and Eglintoun declared himfelfe willing to let his men be leavied.
However, Callander made hafte to make the Weft fecure. The Clydefdaill
men came, on the Saturday, to Mauchline to communicate : that night
Callander lay at Pafley. On Monday he made a randefvous at Stewarton,
of one thoufand fix hundred good horfe, and above two thoufand foot, at
ten houres ; from thence he marched to Mauchline, fending Middleton be
fore him with three hundred horfe. The noblemen and gentlemen of the
(heriffdom of Aire had fitten late on the Saturday at a committee in Ric-
cartoun : finding that Fyfe had yielded, that Argyle was fair off and
quiet, and Callander with ane army in their bofome, they refolved to
lay afide all thoughts of refiftance, and of this advertifed the people at
Mauchline. They notwithftanding would not diffolve, but after the fermon
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in the morning of Monday, fome twelve hundred horfe and eight hundred
foot, with eight minifters, goes out to Mauchline-moore ; gentlemen or
officers very few was among them. While they are about to choyfe fome,
Middleton appears : they expected no enemy in hafte, fo they were amazed
at the fight. The minifters went to Middleton, and capitulated for the
fafety of all, except the fojours who had left their colours, whereof were
one hundred or two. This written capitulation the minifters did carry
to the people, and perfuaded to their power their difbanding. The moft of
the men of Kyle and Cunninghame were content to goe, but the fojours and
Clydefdaill men would needs fight. While they are more than an houre in
this confufed uncertainty, and fundry crying to fight, Middleton makes a few
of his horfe to charge ; but the people prefently fled. His fojours abftained
from killing, only fell a taking horfe, armes, and purfes. A troup of the people
fleeing to a bridge, and miffing the way, were forced to ftand ; they turned
on the fojours and fought very ftoutly. Here was the moft of the flaughter ;
near fourty here fell : fome fay as many of the troupers as of the people.
Middleton himfelf wes fore put to it by a fmith : he gott fome wounds ; and
confefTes, had he not ftabbed the fmith, (though not deadly,) while he was
bringing on him too great a ftroke, he had undoubtedly killed him. Many
of the people were wounded. By the time Callander and the army came
up, the people were difperfed. They fpeake as if the Clydefdaill horfe were
gone to Galloway, with a mind yet to fight ; but I believe it not. There is
indeed in our people a great animofitie put in them, both by our preaching
and difcourfe ; alfo by the extream great oppreffion of the fojours ; fo that,
it fears me, if Lambert be come to Carlifle with frefh men, and have put
Langdale into the town, as they fay, fo foon as our army fhall be intangled
with the Englifh, many of our people rife on their backs. To prevent this, they
have paft a fevere, and, as I think, ane unjuft and tyrannous Act of Parlia
ment, to put all the fubjects of the Kingdom to fubfcribe their readinefs with
life and eftate, to further the execution of the a6ls of this Parliament, mean
ing above all, the act of the leavy, which the Church hes fo much contra
dicted as unlawfull ; alfo to declare that the execution of the acts of this Par
liament, are the moft neceflare and fitted means to remeed our troubles, and
preferve religion : and tha,t all who fhall not fubfcribe this much, without de
lay, are juftly to be holden enemies to the common caufe, religion, and coun-
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trey. We think the bed part of the land will never fubfcribe this, and fo
that all of us who lhall refiife (hall be at their mercy. If I be put to this fub-
fcription, as readily I may (hortly, I think I may once more come to yow,
and that to remaine longer. A fervice to any of your regiments, or any com
pany of Englifh merchants, will be very welcome to me ; which yow will be
thinking of; for however yet they let minifters alone, and I have as much
favour as any other, yet I think our troubles may fo increafe, that I may
be glad to be out of Scotland. It feems many of our people may incline to
venture their lives, either alone or with the Englifh army, if it come near,
againft them who now are employed ; I am not for any fuch matter. For
feare of Sectaries, we have not joyned with Malignants ; if for feare of Malig-
nants, we mould joine with Sectaries, it would be to me abominable : we
who refolve neither to joine with malignants nor fectaries, may fall into great
inconvenients ; but the Lord's will be done.
Our approaching Generall Aflemblie is like to be a dangerous one. The
Moderator's tafk will be hard : I am in doubt if I (hall be at his election ;
the laft time I was neare it ; I am feared more for it now ; I incline by abfence
to efchew it. Yow have here the pofture of our affaires as now they (land :
I think they lhall be much worfe before they amend. It's fome refremment
to us to look a little abroad. If Melander's death, and the worfling of the
Bavarian army, near Augfburg, be true, I will be glad : no prince in the world
I wifli more to be humbled than that wicked fox of Bavaria. I pity the
great and unexpected miffortune of Guife in Naples. What means your
Zealanders to diflent from the peace with Spaine ? Dreame they that the
French would be a better or fo good a neighbour ? Yow never wrote to me
fo rarely as thefe twelve moneths : help this fault.
FOR MR. WILLIAM SPANG. AUGUST 23o 1648.
REVEREND AND DEAR COUSIN,
WHAT is become of yow fmce your journey to Dantzick ? I long much to
hear, defyreing earneftlie to know your fafe return, and understand how
affaires goe in thefe bounds. How things goe here fmce my lad, I give yow
this account. So foon as the motion in the Weft was cruflied, which now I
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find had proven a very high and dangerous commotion, had Callander de
layed but two or three days to fee to it, the Duke with diligence did draw
his forces together to the Border, both to eafe the poor country of their free
quarter and grievous oppreffion, as alfo to put Lambert from hazarding the
regaining of Berwick and Carlifle. The leaguer lay long about Penrith and
Appleby before the Irilh troops, and foot-regiments from the north, came to
him. At laft they became a very confiderable force ; the greateft that came
from Scotland lince the beginning of thefe troubles, though far from the
number, as I conceave, of twenty-two thoufand foot, and eight thoufand horfe,
which common report made them. Never ane army was fo great a charge to
the countrey ; the foot-fojour for leavy-money, cloathes, and armes, coding
generally one hundred pounds, the horfemen three hundred merks, and .their
free quarter, being ane unlimited plundering of many very good and pious
people. Our State hes now found, which fcarcely could have been believed,
that, contrare to the outmoft endeavours of the Church, and all their friends,
they can raife and maintain ane army, and doe what they will at home and
abroad. The wifdome of fome of us has made that practick to pafle, and
the my fiery of our weaknefs to be divulged much fooner than needed. All-
wayes what the end will be, a little time will try. They are now in Lan-
cafhire ; Lambert hes no force to look upon them ; the trained bands of
the fhyres joyne not with him. Cromwell, with the few he could bring from
Pembroke Caftle, having marched mid-way, is forced to returne to Wales,
where the Lord Biron did raife a party fo foone as he had left it. Fairfax is
yet at Colchefter. It feems the Houfes, and City, and Committee of the
fhyres, have of purpofe withdrawne affiftance, that Fairfax at Colchefter, and
Cromwell at Pembroke, mould lye till their forces might melt away, and become
contemptible. If London permitt the Prince to lye flill in the Downes, and
be mafter of their trade, it cannot but breed great alterations quickly. That
the curfed army of Sectaries fhould evanifh in fmoke, and their friends in the
Houfes, City, and Countrey, be brought to their well-deferved ruine ; that
the King and his family fhould be at laft in fome neernefs to be reftored to
their dignity and former condition, I am very glad : but my fear is great,
that his reftitution fhall come by thefe hands, and be fo ill prepared, that the
glorious reformation we have fuffered fo much for, fhall be much endangered,
and the moft that fhall be obtained be but ane Eraftian weak Prefbyterie, with
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a tolleration of Poperie and Epifcopacie at Court, and of diverfe fe<fts elfe-
where. We, who might have been the cheefe inftruments to have Hopped
this evill, are for the time fo farr at odds with our State, Army, and King,
that the defpight which I feare all three hes at us, is lyke to further much
that evill in England, and draw it ere long on Scotland alfo ; but the Lord
can eafily difappoint our fears. Our State, on pretence to attend to the
Prince, whom, by my Lord Lauderdaill, according to the agreement at the
Ifle of Wight, they are inviting hither, but really to keep downe infurrec-
tions of people in the Weft, are leavying one thoufand five hundred horfe
more. They fufpecl; deadly, that the diflenters in Parliament, with the help
of the Church, may raife the countrey, if their army were once deeply en
gaged or worfted in England. Of this I know no ground ; bot men who are
confcious of occafioning much griefe to many, falls in needleffe feare, and by
the means of preventing, draws on their defervings. Our condition for the
time is fadd : The peftilence in Glafgow, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh alfo ;
the continuance of very intemperate rain upon the comes ; the irreconcile-
acble differences of Church and State, looking towards a very great perfecu-
tion of them who have been the befl inftruments both of Church and State,
are great figns of the wrath of God ; efpecially the hearts of the body of
people being evidently hardened, and the minds lykewayes of the minifterie
diverted from prefling that humiliation and mourning, which the times call
for above all things elfe.
But leaving the State, our Generall Aflemblie fat doun on Wednefday
July 12th. On the Saturday before, I had been tormented with a paine in
my tooth, more vehemently than ever with any other paine : this put me
from preaching on Sunday, and ryding on the Monday. This farr I was
glad that I had a true excufe for my not appearing the firft day in the Af-
femblie, whence I had refolved, however, to have been abfent. Mr. Robert
Dowglafs and Mr. Robert Blair preached well at the faft. The Aflemblie
fet till near eight at night choifing their. Moderator. Every man's addition
of three to the Moderator's lift, albeit a equall and fatiffaclory way, yet it
proves very longfome. Mr. Robert Dowglafs named for his two, Mr. An
drew Cant, and Mr. George Gillefpie ; the Aflemblie added Mr. David
Dickfon, and Mr. Robert Blair, and Mr. John Smith. Many named me ;
but I was well away. Mr. Robert Blair was doubtlefs the meeteft man ;
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but becaufe lately he had moderate, he gott few votes ; Mr. Andrew Cant
gott two ; Mr. David Dickfon none : it went betwixt Mr. George Gillefpie
and Mr. Smith. Mr. George did much deprecate the burden, as he had
great reafon, both for his health's fake, and other great caufes ; yet he
did carry it.
The Seffion on Thurfday was fpent on the nomination of the Committees.
In all prior Affemblies, fome few of us mett the night before the Affemblie
in Warriftone's chamber, with Argyle, the Chancellour, and fome others of
our wifeft friends, to confider about the choifing of the moderator, commit
tees, and chiefe points of the Affemblie. This preparation was now to our
hurt neceffarily omitted : Argyle and the Chancellour were both abfent in
their owne houfes, to efchew the fubfcription of the bond of maintainance ;
Warriflone did not appeare, not only for that caufe, but alfo left he mould
have been preffed to have pleaded againft the minifters : — for the eight [feven]
minifters prefent [at Mauchline-moore were fummoned to anfwer as raifers
of that tumult : Mr. William Guthrie, Mr. Matthew Mowat, and Mr. Thomas
Wylie, were diffuaded to appear ; Mr. Gabriell Maxwell, Mr. John Nevay,
Mr. William Adair, Mr. Alexander Blair, did appear, and under their
hand protefted, that, directly nor indirectly, they had not perfuaded the
people to meet there that day. When for diverfe weeks they had been putt
off from day to day, they were at laft difmifTed to a new citation. Allwayes
the good Advocate, being refolved in his mind, if he had been put to it, to
have pleaded for the minifters, and not againft them, was, with much adoe,
moved by his friends to lurk for fome time till the ftorme went over.
The want of thefe private preparatory meetings, which the Moderator's
health permitted him not to attend, did make our Affemblie needleflly long,
and very tedious ; for befydes that the Moderator's way of enquireing at fo
many before every voice, was not for difpatch, his unacquaintance with the
affaires of the committees before they came to the face of the Affemblie,
made the reports unrype and unadvyfed, and fo oft needfull, after much
debate in the Affemblie, to be recommitted. The committee of prime im
portance was that of publick affaires. Upon this the prime men were
putt ; but fo mixed, that the farr moft part was of the moft rigid difpofition.
When Mr. Robert Ramfay, and fome others, were moved to be added to
the Moderator's lift of this committee, it was peremptorly refufed, upon
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this pretence, that he was upon another committee. By this means, were got
out of that meeting whomever the Moderator pleafed, and on it whom
he would.
For examination of the proceedings of the late commiffion, Mr. John Mon-
crieffe, and Mr. John Row, and fome who had not before been commiffioners,
were named. Upon the feare, that they who had corrupted the Parliament,
ihould have been alyke active to have procured commiflioners to our Aflem-
blie conforme to their mind, it was carefully provided, that in all Prefbyteries
they mould be chofen who were moil zealous for the Covenant, and for the
proceedings of the Commiffion of the Kirk, and for the maintenance thereof:
fo this Aflemblie did confift of fuch whofe mind carried them mod againft
the prefent Engagement, which was the great and only queftion for the tyme.
The ruling elders were, Caflilis, Louthian, Balmerinoch, Cowper, Torphichen,
Kirkcudbright, Angus, Creigh, Moncreife, Nether- Pollock, &c. Southefke
and Loure were alfo commiffioners ; but Loure appeared not, and Southefke
finding himfelf putt on a mean committee, appeared no more. The chief con-
left betwixt us and the Committee of Eftate, was lyke to be about the work
of this committee for the Commiffi on-book. They fent in Glencairne to de-
fyre us delay to approve the proceedings thereof, till they had prepared their
confiderations againft them. The cuftome of the Aflemblie, according to
prior acts, was to examine with the firft the Acts of the Commiffion of the
preceding Aflemblie. The exceptions the State took at their proceedings
were fuch as made their perfons uncapable to voice in the Aflemblie till they
were cleared : now the men were a great and chief part of this Aflemblie ;
alfo the matter hi queftion, the Engagement, was of a great concernment, and
had for many moneths been in agitation betwixt the Church and State ; fo
that long time needed not to fett down any thing concerning it. So foon,
therefore, as the report of that committee was ready, it was thought meet,
without longer delay than ane night or two, to receave and vote it : All
without a contrary vote was approven. This angered our Statefmen, and
made them fee, that all hope to make the Aflemblie divert from the way of
the former commiffion, was defperate.
The firft ten or twelve days we had but one feffion in the day, the after-
noone being given to the committees to prepare work for the Aflemblie. In
our committee for publick affaires, at our firft meeting, I found more work
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cutted out, and putt in other hands, than I well lyked. I did agree, that we
fhould goe on as far as the Commiffion of the Church had done againft the
Engagement ; but I wifhed no further progreffe ; yet it was proponed, and
carried, to make a new publick declaration againft it; yea, to have a declaration
to England for the fame effecl;. The drawing of thefe was committed to a
fub-committee of fix, whereof I was glad to be none ; but I was not content,
when, to Mr. David Catherwood, Mr. Robert Kerr, and Mr. John Smith,
were joined Mr. James Guthrie, Mr. John Livingftone, and Mr. John Mack-
lelland ; Mr. Robert Blair, and Mr. David Dickfon, were afterward added ;
and I was required to be added, but peremptorly refufed ; for my mind was
not very forward for the wrytes they were to draw.
Fryday and Saturday were fpent on trying the commiffions. Thefe of
the Prefbyteries of Dunfe and Chirnfyde were rejected ; the one had chofen
Mr. Samuell Dowglafs, moderator, the fame day that a complaint of him had
come to them from the Commiffion of the Church, for his never appearing
there but once, and that to dhTent from the Church's declaration againft the
Engagement. The other Prefbyterie's commiffion was rejected, becaufe they
had putt in a ruling elder, who had entered a wrytten proteftation in the
Prefbyterie againft the caufes of the late fail, relating to the Engagement.
The difaifeclion of thefe two Prefbyteries was much fpoken of; therefore it
was thought fitt to appoint a vifitation, confiding of the moft zealous brethren
of Edinburgh, Lothian, and Merfe, to cognofce and cenfure their carriage as
they found caufe. The lyke courfe was taken with the Prefbyteries of Stirling
and Dunkell : they had not been exacl: enough in trying the alleadged ma
lignancy of one of their number. This occafioned a vifitation of them lyke-
wife. Mr. Harie Guthrie, a very bold man, but in this and the late Aflem-
blies very quiet, gave in a petition againft this courfe ; but rather than to
make dinn in vaine, took it up againe. In our committee we had, thefe dayes,
fome reafonings about the commiffions from Burrows : none of us was
much for the thing, but all for tollerating of them, for fear of offending the
Burrows at this time ; only the commiffion of Edinburgh was thought to be
wrong ; but none offered themfelves from that towne. The difcord betwixt
their Magiftrates and Minifters was much more than I defired to fee : their
fpleen againft one or two of their minifters was great. The wilfullnefs of
fome rafh men to have Sir John Smith out of his place hes coft us deare.
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Since they have gotten the Magiftracy of that Towne, who, to their power,
hes carried all things there to the mind of them whom we little affected, one
of their great cares hes been, to keep their kirks rather vaiking, than to
plant them with any whom they lyked not. In choifing of minifters and
commiflioners they took a new way : their commiflioners for the Aflemblie
they named in their Towne-Councell ; their minifters alfo, as patrons, they elect
ed there : they were content to propone the men elected, to the Seffion of
that church where they were to ferve, but to no other. Much debate there
was with them in a committee appointed for that end ; but the refult was,
that the commiflioners elected in their Councell fhould have the confent of
their great Seflion, which is their fix Seflions joined ; alfo the minifters whom
they name in Councell, as patrons, (hall have the confent of the fix Seflions
before they be prefented to the Prefbyterie. And in regard of their neglect to
fupply their vacant places, now of a long time, the Aflemblie did vote fix,
whom they recommended to the great Seflion to choife four of them, and to
obtaine their orderly tranfportations from the Commiflion of the Church.
The men were, Mr. John Macklelland, Mr. George Hutchefone, Mr. Hugh
Mackell, Mr. James Ferguflbn, Mr. James Naefmith, and Mr. Robert Traile.
All this hes added to the towne of Edinburgh's offence, and is thought will
not further the plantation of their vacand places.
One of the Aflemblie' s committees I have ever been againft, though yet
without fruit. The towne of Edinburgh is fupplyed with the ableft men of
the kingdom ; their chiefe fervice fhould be in Aflemblie-time. The cuftome
ever has been, that fo long as the Aflemblie fitts, all thefe men are idle, and
all their kirks muft be provided by members of the Aflemblie. This makes
many weake and ill-accommodate countrey preachers to fill thefe eminent
roomes, at mofl confiderable times. This made the pulpits of Edinburgh be
provided for on the Sundays, and week thereafter, worfe than needed.
On Monday allwayes we have the forenoon free, becaufe many goes out on
the Sunday to the churches about. That tyme I fpent in a meeting with
the Univerfities, and gott them to meet twice or thrice more, where we de
bated, and concluded the moft part of the overtures, whereof yow have here
a double. I intreate yow read the preface of Burgerfdick to his Logicks.
I find, that twenty yeares agoe, the profeflbrs of Leyden, with the con
fent of the fynods of Holland, have agreed on a courfe, to be taught, both
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in grammar-fchools and colledges, which the magiftrate hes commanded
to be every where but one. I pray yow try at Apollonius, or the fchool-
mafter of Middleburgh, or fome other, if it be fo, and what that courfe is,
which yow will fet downe, and fend over here to me in your firfl letter.
The three or four next feflions were fpent much of them in votes and de
bates upon papers betwixt us and the States. Glencairne and others pre-
fented to us a petition from the Duke and the army for miniflers, which
they feconded ; lykewife they offered all fecurity for religion they were
able ; and for removeing the prefent differences, they required a con
ference with us. To all this they required a prefent anfwer ; at leaft be
fore we pad on the tryell, in order to approbation of the Commiffion-book,
againil which they profeffed they had diverfe new exceptions. To all
thefe we gave anfwers in wryte. The proceedings of the commiffioners
were unanimoufly appro ven ; a conference was appointed ; eight miniflers
named, and fome elders ; the army's letter referred to our committee. The
State neglected the conference, lince we had approven the proceedings of
the Commiffion, and had refolved, that no fecurity to religion was poffible
fo long as the Engagement did Hand ; only they mett once for a fafhion, and
gave in a paper craving fcripture from us for the unlawfulnefs of the Engage
ment, and our meddleing with matters of warre and peace. This paper was
referred to our committee. In ane afternoone fome few of us mett, and
fett downe our fcripturall grounds for both thefe points ; but thought fitt
to put them in the Declaration rather than in a feverall paper.
Mr. Robert Blair and Mr. John Smith were willing to draw the declaration,
leifl it mould fall in Mr. James Guthrie's brifk hand. I obtefted Mr. Blair,
that he would be carefull of two things ; one, to be full againft the fecta-
ries ; another, to beware that his draught carried any thing which, directly or
indirectly, might carry us to a refiftance of the State. I knew, that the moil
of the leading men thought a refiftance by armes to the ways in hand law-
full enough, if the dnTenters in Parliament, or any confiderable part of the
Kingdome, had courage and probable force to act ; but it was my greateft
care, that nothing mould be done or faid by the Aflfembly which might bear
any fuch thing ; and this I obtained to my great contentment. There were
two points fomewhat fibb to this that I obtained alfo, but with much difficulty.
1. Sundry at diverfe times moved to have it determined, if it was lawfull to
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pay any monethly maintainance, fince avowedly it was preffed for the ufe of
the army, which was unlawful!. I avowed the lawfullnefs of it, as of a tri
bute agreed upon by the State before this army was in being ; and that
Cbefar in confcience mud have his tribute, let him employ it to what ufes he
thinks fitt. Alfo, if this were refufed, the excife, the portion of annuelrents,
and all other dues, which were employed for the fervice of the army, be
hooved to be denyed ; which could not but make the State to take it by force,
and the people to fight againft their fpoilers. At laft we agreed to lay this
queftion afyde. It was lykewife much prefled, that fuch as had been active
for the Engagement fliould be kept from the holy table ; and, as I did think,
the defigne of fome was to have our Statefmen put under Church cenfures
for their diligence in this Engagement. My mind in this yow have in a
paper here by itfelfe. I gott it, by much fpeech and private dealing, carried
according to my mind.
But other things were carried over my head. It was moved, for the further
clearing of the wickednefs of the warre, to make a collection from the Com-
miflioners of all the Prefbyteries of the chief infolencies committed by the
fojours before they went from among us, and to put thefe in our declaration.
I was willing they mould be collected to be complained of both to Church
and State, and cenfured by both fo feverely as poflible ; but was averfe to
have them regiftrate, for the infamy of the very nation, into our publick de
claration. In this I was not heard. Alfo, when it was prefled that minifters
filent, who did not preach againft the Engagement, mould for this be depofed,
I wifhed, if men were modeft, and otherwife offended not, that this fault
might carrie no more but ane rebuke ; but not only it was made depofition,
but, by the motion of two or three men at moll, it was carried againft my
mind, and of diverfe others, that the prior acts againft depofed minifters for
Malignancy mould be made more ftrait: 1. That none of them fliould be
ever admitted to any Church whence a man for Malignancy was depofed ;
but alfo, that they fliould be keept from preaching till a Generall Afiemblie
did open their mouth ; and out of the minifterie, while ane other Generall
Aflemblie did find them fitt for a Church ; alfo, if after their depofition they
meddled with any part of the ftipend or glebe, it fliould be excommunication
to them. It was prefled by fome, that the not paying of the ftipend to the
next intrant, fliould be excommunication to the patrons or tennants, who,
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upon the Act of Parliament, paid it to him who was depofed for adhereing
to the State. This hardly was gotten avoided.
It was againft the minds of fundrie to make a declaration to England at
all ; but this behooved to be. I was feared for Mr. James Guthrie his hand ;
and fo I found I had reafon : His draught was wanting of that which I
thought was the chief thing it became us to fay to them, if fo we faid any
thing, a fharp complaint againft the Sectarian army, and the Parliament's ne
gligence to performe their part of the Covenant, which had brought on us all
our prefent troubles : alfo it had fome dangerous expreffions, which I thought
imported the rock I defyred to evite, calling our State, " A faction ; yea, the
mixed multitude that came out of Egypt ; but the diffenters from the En
gagement, the nation, and the Ifrael of God." With very much adoe I
gott thefe helped, fome in the committee, and others in the face of the
Affemblie.
I found the bent-faile of the fpirits of fome fo much on the Engagement,
that all things elfe were lyke to be neglected ; therefore I prefied, that the
Doctrinalls, as moil proper for us, which the lad Generall Affemblie had re
commended to all the Pre{byteries, might be taken to confideration, I gott
in the Catechife ; but no more : we paffed this, both the Larger and Shorter,
as a part of uniformitie ; but we thought the Shorter too long, and too high
for our common people and children, and fo put it in Mr. D. Dickfon's hand,
to draw it Ihorter and clearer. Of this he was carefull, and prefented us
with a draught before the end of the Affemblie, which truely was very good
and exact ; but yet fo high and long, that it was recommitted to Mr. John
Levingftone : he was purpofed to remitt it to the minifters of Edinburgh.
We had three things more of great concernment to have paft, and might
eafily have concluded them all, had not our time been worfe fpent, the Di-
rectorie of Government, the Theorems againft Eraftians, and the Pfalmes.
The firft, a very excellent and profitable piece, the fourth part of our uni
formitie, was muffled by through the pertinacious oppofition of Mr. David
Calderwood, and two or three with him. Four oj five things we all agreed in
to except, in that wry te, from our confent; but that which grieved Mr. David
was the matter of Church feflions, which he maintains to have no divine right
in particular, but to be only as a committee from the Prefbyterie, to execute
thefe acts of jurisdiction which the Prefbyterie thinks fitt to committ thereto.
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Leaft in the end of the Aflemblie, when many were gone, we (hould come to
fo grave a debait, or rather, lead at a time of our fo great ftrife with the
State, we mould fall a jarring among ourfelves, it was thought bed to re
fer the whole wryte to the next Aflemblie. Upon the fame ground, the
Theorems were alfo remitted. The Pfalmes were often revifed, and fent to
Prefbyteries : had it not been for fome who had more regard than needed
to Mr. Zacharie [Boyd]'s Pfalter, I think they had pafled through in the
end of the Aflemblie ; but thefe alfo, with almoft all the references from
the former Aflemblies, were remitted to the next.
One feflion was fpent on encouraging Mr. David Calderwood to perfyte
his Church ftory,1 and to confider Mr. Andrew Kerr2 for his good and great
fervice to them. Both gott a teflimonie of our favour :3 eight hundred
pounds yearly for Mr. David Calderwood; and one thoufand yearly to Mr.
Andrew Kerr, with a gratuity of five thoufand merks for bygones, were ap
pointed by the Aflemblie to be payed to them out of the Church's five hun
dred pounds penfion ; but we cannot, for any requeft, gett one penny payed
by the Thefaurer, and have little hopes to gett any more in hade. Much
fpeech we had of a [Hi](lory of the late troubles. In every province fome
were named to gather materials to be fent in to Mr. John Smith. The
publick papers, in wryte or print, were defired to be all put together ; but
I expect no good from all thefe motions. If you would goe on with your
Hiftory, 1 fliould be very glad of it.
We were falhed with the opening of the mouths of depofed minifters.
Poor Mr. Patrick Hamiltone, in the very nick when the Aflemblie was to
grant all his defire, was rejected by his oune unhappinefs. He had let fall
out of his pocket a poem too invective againft the Church's proceedings.
1 His History of the Church of Scotland : Vide vol. ii. p. 374.
1 Mr. Andrew Ker, Advocate, son of John Ker, Minister of Prestonpans, was for some
time Warriston's depute, and then his successor, as Clerk to the General Assembly. There was
another person of the ;^me name, also an Advocate, who was appointed one of the Commis-
sionera for the Administration of Justice in Scotland, under the Protectorate of Cromwell.
3 " This modification (as it is called in the Index of the printed Acts of Assembly) to Mr.
Dmvid Calderwood for his publick employments ;" and to " the Clerk of the Assembly for his
services." was of course in Scotish money, or equivalent to £66 : 13 : 4 Sterling for Calderwood,
and £83: 6s for Ker: the 5000 merks amounted to £277: 16 : 6$ additional; but in all
probability these sums were never paid.
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This, by mere accident, had come in the hands of Mr. Mungo Law, who
gave it to Mr. James Guthrie, and he did read it in the face of the Affem-
blie, to Mr. Patrick's confufion. Alfo when the Affemblie was to have at
laft, after three or four years refufall, fhewen favour to your old colleague
Mr. James Row, Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, and his own coufins, did fo farr
marre him, upon tacit furmifes, as I fufpecl; of fmall importance, that it's lyke
he mall never be permitted to preach : yet honefl John Gillon gott permif-
lion to preach, and for this I confeffe I was forward ; for the man, though
he want letters, is very pious and well-gifted, and ftrong againft all fe6laries.
The preparative is not dangerous, for I believe few in ane age will fall to be
in his cafe ; and if many mould, I would grant them the like favour, though
fome mifinterpret it.
The Affemblie fpent diverfe feffions, for fmall purpofe, upon tranfporta-
tions. Thefe I love dayly worfe and worfe ; the moft are evidently packed
bufineffes, little for the credit either of the tranfporters or tranfported. Mr.
John Livingftone, refufed to Glafgow, and defigned for Ireland by the laft
Affemblie, though earneftly futed by my Lord of Airds, and much ftucken
to by my Lord Caflillis, who, for his refpect, had made a conftant ftipend for
his church, moft out of his owne rent, though his parifhioners had not been
cited, yet was, at my Lord Louthian's fute, tranfported to Ancrum, where the
benefice was great, and the way to Edinburgh fhort. Dr. Colvine, called
by Edinburgh to the divinity profeflion, fo willing to come as it became a
wife and modeft man, his colleagues willing to difmiffe him ; yet the private
refpecls of a very few, made him to be fixed to his ftation, which 1 regretted.
Mr. George Hutchefon, orderly appointed by his Prefbyterie to goe to Ayr,
yet he, lykeing better to goe to Bruntifland or Edinburgh than to joine with
Mr. William Adair, and Mr. William abfenting himfelfe when the action
came in, was appointed to byde in his place. I think the miforder of tranf-
portations will not be gotten helped, till fome honeft men doe peremptorlie
refufe to obey, which, I think, fome at laft will doe ; efpecially fince the
filling of fo many places is referred to the Commiflion of the Kirk, with a
power almoft arbitrary, to neglect all the rules before appointed by Generall
Affemblies for tranfportation.
We were fafhed with Patrick Lefley of Aberdeen : his intemperate zeale
for the leavie had made him overhaile. Mr. Andrew Cant gave in againft
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him a foule libell : he gave in another againft the minifters. It coft a com
mittee very much diligence to gett this matter accommodate ; for it was
manifeft that Mr. Andrew Cant could hardly live in Aberdeen, if that man
were enraged ; fo for the minifters caufe he was much fpared, and that matter
packed up as it might be : fome men are borne, if not to raife, yet continu-
allie to live in a fire. We had in our committee fome debate about con
venticles : fome of them we had heard of in Edinburgh, in the characters
of feaaries. Mr. Robert Knox gott them in, to my great contentment, for
I found fome too fpareing of them ; and yet I feare how farr in their own
time they may extend their duety of mutuall edification.
The whole two weeks following were fpent on thefe things. The mod
were fafiied for the Moderator's want of difpatch, and too much flicking wil-
fullie to his owne fenfe : Mr. Robert Blair in the moft, Mr. Robert Ramfay
in all, was of my mind ; Mr. Robert Dowglafs miflyked fome mens carriage.
The Aflembly of Divines wrote to us a generall letter : to this, Mr. Robert
. Blair his anfwer was good and uncontro verted. The fubfcryving of the
Bond was much againft all our minds ; but ane A61 was drawn up againft it
in my abfence, which I much miflyked ; for it carried cenfure againft the preff-
ere of it. This directly aimed at our ftatefmen, the contrivers of it ; but, in
the face of the Aflemblie, I gott it to be exponed only adfutura. Some of
my neighbors before the Aflemblie were fo farr in love with this fubfcription,
that I was forced to wryte to them arguments againft it, as yow may fee
herewith. Though in fome parts of the countrey the fubfcription goe on,
jet in the chiefe and moft parts it is not required of any.
At this time I was greeved for the ft ate of Glafgow. The peft did in-
creafe. My brother fon's houfe was infected ; my brother's houfe inclof-
ed many in danger : one night near a doflen dyed of the ficknefs. Some
good, but unadvifed people, were not much greeved for the calamity of that
Towne ; and if it had fallen only upon their oppofites, their infulting had been
grievous, yet the Lord hes been marvelloufly gracious to my brother and
his ton : no harme at all hes come to them ; and the danger of the Towne,
blefled be God, is much diminifhed. The long great raines for many weeks
did prognofticate famine ; but thefe three dayes bypaft there is alfo a great
change of weather ; the Lord continue it.
Our Aflemblie drave over to the end of the fifth week : many, dwelling
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farr off and fuperexpended, flaid away. I fufpected the Moderator drew
long of purpofe, waiting for a letter from the Parliament of England, which
came not. We hear now the Houfe of Commons pad a declaration to us ;
but the Lords confented not to it. I did not love to have any corrrefpon-
dence with them now, but others loved it too well. Ane other motion in our
committee I loved not, a letter to be written to the King : the motion was
fathered on Mr. James Hamiltone ; and the drawing of it put on him,
though no Commiffioner. I knew there would a heavier load be laid by us
on his Majeflie than was expedient to be meddled with ; alfo that we mould
not expreffe fuch a fenfe of his unjuft fufferings as the world would expect ;
and fo I was earneft to let all alone ; but the Moderator carried it : and
though the draught of that letter came never to our committee, but at
the firft was taken in to the Affemblie, and fome hours fpent in the Mode
rator's publick correcting of it, yet the thing behooved to paffe, and the
wording of it to go to the Commiflion. Many good overtures againfl the
fins of the time did lykewife paffe. One of them I was feared for ; it was
firft, that all Minifters converfing with Malignants mould be cenfured by
Prefbyteries. This would have fnared many ; for the notion of the Malig
nants now by the Engagement, is extended to very many : I gott it fome
way qualified, but not fo as it will be found needfull.
That which fome dayes in the end of the Affemblie troubled us, was Mr.
Andrew Ramfay and Mr. William ColviU's proceffe. Mr^ Andrew had, in
preaching, oft fallen out into diverfe impertinencies, and contradictions to his
brethren ; he had been oft admonifhed ; but the man's weaknefs and age, and
diverfe who reforted to him, permitted him not much to amend. Not only
he had fpoken for the Engagement ; but in prejudice of our proceedings, and
Prefbyteriall government itfelfe. Much he denied which was proven : he
untimeoufly had fallen on an unhappie queftion, the Magiftrate's power to re-
mitt blood. The generall Thefe which he profeffed to maintaine, " That the
fupreame magiftrate, when the fafety of the commonwealth does require, may
difpenfe with the execution of juftice againft fhedders of blood," many of us
declined to meddle with ; but the Moderator gladly would have had the
Affemblie determining the negative exprefllie, which was efchewed ; only the
man for his doctrine and carriage was fufpended to the next Affemblie. Mr.
William Colvill was referred to us only for his filence about the Engagement.
til LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1648.
The man was generallie reputed too bufie to countenance and encourage our
datefmen in their way, and the chiefe mover of Mr. Andrew to his courfe ;
however, he himfelfe walked very cannily. I was indeed offended at his
mala|)ert carriage in the commiflion of the Church, and for it, albeit it was
not libelled, I confented to his fufpenfion ; but it was againd my mind that
Doctor Barron mould have been cenfured for mere filence, yet it was carried.
One or two of your friends in our Prefbyterie had been, for their filence
and ambiguity about the Engagement, referred to the Aflemblie, had I not
diverted and gotten that evill keept off them ; for had they come before us,
readily they had never come off.
We appointed vifitations for Univerfities and hofpitalls, and put on them
the (harped men we had. Lykely Edinburgh will not fubmitt to have either
Univerfitie or hofpitalls vilited, though they have mofl need ; .and I prefled
their vifitation before any other ; fmce, as yet, they have ever declined it.
The CommilTioners for uniformitie with England were continued without
change ; only Lauderdaill, to my greefe, was juflly omitted. I was fcarce
refolved to have feen him ; yet my Lady Warriflone fent me to him, as
truding in his friendfhip for her hulband's buflinefs. He told me, that, how
ever, to his bed knowledge, there was no defigne either on his place or per-
fon for the time ; yet that he could not anfwer what might be fhortly,
efpecially when in debate and difcourfe thefe things might efcape him which
might irritat. Upon this good Warriftone, lead by his unfriends he might
be brought in by violence, thought meet to retire to Cantyre, where, for the
prefent, he pafTes time with Argyle. Lauderdaill continues kind to me,
and regrates much the difference betwixt us ; fears it become a fountaine of
great evills, either the overthrow of the defigne for the King againd the
Se&arids, or the putting up of the Malignant partie fo high, that they will
hardly be gotten ruled; at bed, the making of the government of our
Church, as we exercife it, to be abhorred by all in England and abroad, and
intolerable to our owne State at home. I find the Thefaurer in the fame
mind, but both of them fad enough, for ought I can fee, to our Covenant
and perfons, except to one or two whom they edeem the prime caufes of the
difference. In Mr. William Colvill's cenfure, Mr. David Calderwood raflily
had faid, " He was the painfulled minider of Edinburgh :" this the Mode
rator exaggerat fo fair, as fome did fpeak of his removeall for cenfure. The
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Moderator before had taken him up for his impertinencies indeed : yet too
roughly, and more, as I thought, than became. After this rancounter, Mr.
David went home, and came no more to the Afiemblie. At this I grieved ;
it may doe harme.
The State, on the Fryday before we rofe, gave in a large paper of Ob-
fervations on our Declaration : I take them to be Primrofe their clerk's
draught. We appointed the Commiffion to fitt and anfwer them : they
are but poor ones. That fame day we renewed the Commiffion of the
Church. There is too great a change of the perfons, and too great addition
of men who never have been members of any Aflemblie ; alfo their power is
too much enlarged, even to proceffe all who oppofe their orders, as well as
of the Generall Aflemblie. I find diverfe in the mind, that if once our
army in England had gotten any fenfible fuccefle, our State are refolved
totally to fupprefle the Commiffion of the Church, as a judicatorie not yet
eftablifhed by law ; and it's feared they will trouble the perfons of fome of
us : but the Lord's will be done. I think indeed the cariage of fome is too
high and peremptor ; but if the State begin to trouble any of us with im-
prifonment, it will be a great ill of long and dangerous confequence.
On Saturday Auguft the 12th we arofe. In the morning I went away,
defireous, after much toile, to be at home that night, unwilling to wait on
the Commiflion, to jangle more with the Moderator. I was glad we had all
ended in peace. The matter of this unhappie Engagement I hope will not
laft, and fo the ground of our difference with the State fhall be removed :
but new grounds of divifion may poffibly aryfe, which may make our con
tentions greater. This much I have written to yow, to obliedge yow to
wryte ofter and larger ; fo much the more as our intercourfe with London is
Hopped, and we know not what is doeing either there or abroad. What
yow learn weekly by your Gazetts, I pray, once in the moneth at leaft, let
us have it's fumm, as yow fhall have occafion to fend it. So I reft,
Your Confine, to ferve yow,
Auguft 23d [1648.] ROBERT BAILLIE.*
* " The consequences of the Engagement were fatal. The army was totally routed in Lan
caster by Cromwell, the Duke [of Hamilton^ taken prisoner,, carried to London, and there exe
cuted." In the printed copy 1775, this passage, which occurs as a postscript to the above letter,
is evidently an explanation added by the Editor.
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66 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1649.
FOR MB. SPANG. FEBRUARY ?TH 1649.
COUSINE,
YOUR bygone letter, 12th, I receaved, and thanks yow for it. Yow com-
plaine of my long filence ; but gives no fatiffaftion for your longer. In
my nixt I (hall give yow contentment about all your inquirie : this is upon
a particular and great occafion. One Aft of our lamentable Tragedy being
ended, we are entering again upon the fcene. O ! if it might be the Lord's
pleafure to performe more happy and comfortable actions than have appeared
thefe years bygone. To the great joy of all, in the midft of a very great
and univerfall forrow, we proclaimed, on Monday lad, the Prince, King of
Brittaine, France, and Ireland. We have fent the bearer,5 a worthy gentle
man, to (ignifie fo much to his Majeftie at the Hague : We purpofe fpeedily
to fend a honorable Commiflion from all Eftates. The dangers and diffi
culties wherewith both his Majeftie and all his Kingdomes at this time are
involved, are exceeding great and many. The firft neceflare and prime one
(as all here, without exception, conceave) doth put his Majeftie and his people
both in a hopefull proceeding ; and his Majeftie's joyning with us in the
Nationall Covenant, fubfcribed by his grandfather King James, and the
Solemne League and Covenant, wherein all the well-affe6led of the three
Kingdomes are entered, and muft live and die in, upon all hazards : — If his
Majeftie may be moved to joyne with us in this one point, he will have all
Scotland readie to facrifice their lives for his fervice : — If he refufe, or fhift
this duety, his beft and moft ufefull friends, both here and elfewhere, will
be call into inextricable labyrinths, we fear, for the ruine of us all. We
know Satan will not want ill inftruments to keep him off from a tymeous
yielding to this our moft earned and neceffare defyre ; hot as it is, and
will be, one of all Scotland's ftrong petitions to God, to difpofe his heart
to doe his duty without delay ; fo we will acknowledge ourfelves much
obliedged to any, whom the Lord may honor, to be the happie inftruments
of his perfuafion. Many here remember, and are fenfible of your great
* Sir Joseph Douglas, who carried a letter of the same date to the King, from the Commis
sion of the General Assembly. Vide infra, p. 71 ; also the Appendix to this Volume.
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and happie labours, for the clearing of our proceedings, from the very firft
commotions among us : We truft ye will not refufe to be at any needfull
paines, at this fo hard a tyme, for the fervice of God, your King, and
Countrey, and all the Churches here, in their great diflrefs. I wifh yow
made a voyadge to Hague, and dealt with our good friends, Dr. Rivet and
Dr. Spanheim, to infinuate to the King their wholefome advyces. I know
Somais [Salmafius], Voflius, Apollonius, and others there, underftand fo much
of our proceedings, that a fmall defyre from any interefts would move them
to contribute their beft helps for his Majeftie's information.
I recommend it therefore moft earnefllie to yow, to beftirre yourfelfe
in a private clanculary way to further this work. If yours, or any other
men's labours be bleffed of God to work the prefent, you will find all
here (I mall anfwer for it) readie to acknowledge, as becomes your pains,
by fuch teftimonies, in due time, as lhall give yow fatiffaclion. What
yow doe muft be done quicklie ; for every hour's delay prejudgeth (we
know not how much) his Majeftie and all his dominions.
Your Couline,
Edinburgh, February 7th 1649. ROBERT BAILLIE.
MR. WILLIAM SPANG TO MR. ROBERT BAILLIE/
REVEREND COUSIN,
SINCE May laft, the firfl letter I have feen of yours was of the 4th Decem
ber, very concife, and moft of it in complaint of my long lilence ; of which
ye fould have had no reafon, if thefe to whom I entrufled my letters for yow
have been honeft ; for I never let any occalion flip with which I have not
written, and that at large. I am affrayed leaft the freedom 1 have ufed in
them may beget truble to me, if they have fallen into any invyous hand ;
and yet what I writ was but a rehearfel of the judgement, which the godly
6 This and the two following letters are printed from the originals contained in Wodrow
MSS. Folio, Vol. LXVII. Nos. 83, 84, and 85. Spang, it will be observed, writes in the name
of Anderson, and refers to Baillie, as Jameson. The orthography of the originals is usually
retained; but the final e has been added to such words as Prince, large, place, these, &c. to
make them intelligible. Spang's long residence abroad, offers some excuse for such peculiarities.
58 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1649.
and wyfe, who ever affected our caufe, did profefs to me both by word and
letters. Mod of my letters to yow wer inclofed in pakkets to Mr. George
Gillefpie, of quhoes death, to my great grief, I have latly heard. Certanly
he was as able a man as our Kirk had ; of a clear judgement :— that which
feme mUlyked in him, wald eafely have been bettered by experience and
years. I fee he hes had a better opinion of thefe Sectaries than he wald
have had, if he had lived till now, and had heard their vile perjured treach
eries againfl al bands : Alace ! for that reproach caft upon our reUigion,
and the treuth of God, by thefe mens unparalelled proceedings, and for the
prefent danger of relligion in al the thrie Kingdoms ; yea, and the civil liber
ties of al who will not rune to the fame exces of madnes with them.
Let Scotland chuis what fyde they pleas, that poor land fal be the feat
of war, by al appearance, this fummer ; for a confiderable army is march
ing northward againft yow ; and Cromwel affurs his brethren in evil, of a
more eafy conqueft of that Kingdom than al the Englifh Kings ever had.
His ground is, as I have heard from one who is of their councel, that
the bitternefs betwixt thefe who wer for the lad engadgement into England,
and thefe who wer againft it, is fo great, that ther is no means left to recon
cile parties, and he is able to crufhe thefe who hes authority now in their
hand, if they be alone ; fo that our domeflik divifions is the cheif flay of that
party, and which will mak us either fal into their hands as a conqueft, or hin
der us from being able to doe any thing to purpofe. They encurradge them-
felfs in thefe their hopes, by ane alledget diflent entred by fom of the emi-
nenteft of our nobility againft the proclaming of our new King, which,
though it be mod fals, yet it is enough to (lander thefe noblemen ; and becaus
their authority is fo great in our Kingdome, to mak many fufpect al runs
not fo fmooth and fair as is given out by us ; fo much the more, fince no
publik Declaration is emitted by our cleargie, to vindicat themfelfs from
having given a precedent quhilk thefe perjured Independents have folloued.
I am fure it hes bein a matter of unconceavable grief to yow all, when ye
heard of that bloody murthering the late King ; and it is reafon, that follow
ing the example of the zealous preachers in London, ye teftifie your utter
abhorring of it, that ther may be extant a teftimony to the world of the loyal-
tie of your hearts, whereby the foul mouths of Papifts and Malignants may be
flopped, as Jacob did, Genefis xlix. 6 ; and David, 2 Samuel iii. 35, 36, 37.
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All the minifters in this province doe publickly declar their abhorring of it,
and many has chofen felecl texts for that purpofe, and ever with that tender
refpeft to our countrey and their proceedings, as was matter of joy for us to
hear. Now ye have proclaimed the Prince to be King ; and blifled be God,
who hath put it in your hearts fo to doe ! this maks your names like a
fragrant fmel ; and if ye be put to any hazard for the maintenance of that
act, if ye will manadge your credit weel abroad, ye will find real friends.
But firft, all wilhe that cair were taken to cement at home with you, and
for that purpofe to remit of that rigour, in the which, if ye continew, no man
fees how ye can fublifl ; for, be allured, the party that now is under will rake
hell to vindicat themfelfs, and put yow to that neceffity, that ye muft joine
your forces with thefe murtherers, and bring them again into the bouels
of our kingdom, yea, and to be fubfervient to them, and to recal what has
been done with fuch abfolute agreement. It wer to be wifhed that men
of all fydes wald now learne to deny themfelfs, if they wald approve their
former profeffions for Religion, King, Countrey.
There is arryved at Rotterdam fome Commiflioneris from Scotland to
the Prince, upon the 2d March, new ftyle, amongfl whom there is one Sir
Jofeph Douglafs, who entreated Mr. Alexander Petrie to writ to me in all
haift, that I fould com thither, or to the Hague unto him ; for what errand
I know not ; yet I mynd to-morrow, God willing, to goe thither, fo much
the more, becaus I hear my Lord Chancellor is upon his way thither in a
fhip, quhair, if I can ferve them for any ufe, I fal not be fayling.
We have no news more than what your Englifh moderat Intelligencer
printeth. Germany is in Jlatu dubio, al hankering for the effect of that
Munfler treaty, yet not willing to quyt their polls till they fee perform
ance. France is in a fyre for that unhappy Mazarin : both parties ar refolut,
and they have met feveral tyms in parties, fomtyms with lofs of the one,
fomtyms of the uther. Spain, whatfoever he mynd, yet he is arming a grit
Armado, of which we can fee little ufe, except it be for Irland. If peace be
made in France, England will feel the fmart of it ; and when parties
fal be then engaged, uthers ar lying in wait alfo.
I do fend yow, for the Colledge, al of Amiraut's that I could get ; his
Apologie in 4to, et Specimen Animadverlionum contra Spanhemium, bound,
his treatife De Abfoluto Reprobationis Decreto, in 4 to. unbound, his uther
70 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1649.
final treatifes bound together in 8vo. : Item, Ludovic de Dieu Animadver-
fiones in omnes Libros Veteris Tedamenti, bound in 4to. ; Rivetorum Fra-
trum Apologia contra Calumnias Amirautij ; Cocceius de Foedere et Tefta-
mento Dei ; Linfchotani Itinerarium Indise Orientalis, in folio, Amdeloda-
menfmm Hiftoria, Pontani, both rare books, fit for Bibliotheks.
I fal be looking out for what our freind did writ of his removal. Alace !
that matters fould be brought thus far ; but a wyfe man feeth the evil day,
and fleeth from it : When I return out of the Hague, I fal give Mr. Jame-
fon ane account of it. I am glad my nephew pleafeth yow fo weel ; keep
him in a modeft opinion of himfelf. I fee he is hinkering after his old con
ceit, and fhaues more inclination to uther ftudies than Divinity, by reflbn of
the little hopes of preferment for one who will not eafily enflave his judge
ment to uther boxovms . Ye know what is the bed way to put that out of his
head. Grit will the account be of thefe who, by fuch imperious and partial
courfes, goe about to fmother the graces God puts in fuch young fprouts.
I fend yow a new peece of that Eradianifme againfl the worthy fervant of
' God, Jodocus Larenus, minifter of Flufhing ; who hes ane anfuer to it under
the pres, whilk ye fal have when it comes furth. Marezius at Groning hes
begun his virulency again againfl honed Voetius, whom he accufeth of poprie,
focinianifme, and what not. The divel is not idle, and the Kirk is like to
receive, as in former tymes, mor damadge by fuch than by publick enemies.
My wyf hopes, if ye wer acquaint with her, that ye fould tak revendge upon
yourfelf for having fuch a opinion of her, as if by her my deuty to my freinds
fould be neglected ; of this I may purge her, becaus I have, as I have
writen, left no occafion unpaft. And I am fure ye will find my letters,
if ye have not got them alreddy, in Mr. George Gillefpie's chalmer : His
feiknefs and death hes bein the hinderence. 1 wifh, if ye have not got them
unopened, that they had perimed ; for we live in dangerous tyms, wherein
a man is made a tranfgreflbr for a word, and whatfoever freedom I ufe with
my freinds mud not be mifinterpretate. Let your bedfellow, children, freinds,
be faluted in my name, efpecially your brother-in-law, Dr. Strang. When I
returne out of Holland, ye may exfpect, God willing, a large letter, and
that with the fird. The good God comfort yow, and direct yow in the
right way, that ye may enjoy the fruit of your labours in peace. If our
King will not tak the Covenant, and feparat himfelf from the counfels of
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thefe who hes driven his Father to that mifery, I forfee he and we al fal
be miferable. Let our eyes be toward God ; he rulis al : To his mercy
ye ar recommended by
Your Coufine,
At my Duelling place, 7th March 1649. ANDERSON.
I have no leifure to writ to any elfe at this tym. Commend me to my
mother and my freinds. — Let my coufine have ufe of fuch books in your
Bibliothek, as he has need of. Sie how familiar I am with yow. — I fal anfuer
Mr. David Dickfon's letter, when I gett ane anfuer out of Amfterdam.
(Addrejfed) For the Reverend and much honored Mr. Robert
Baillie, Profeffor of Divinity in the Univerfity of Glafgow.
M.
With ane bundel of books, marked R. B.
By ane noble freind, who will direct them to William Cunjng-
ham, merchant at the Cuftome-hous in Edinburgh.
MR. WILLIAM SPANG TO MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.?
Tibifoli.
REVEREND AND DEAR COUSIN,
AFTER the doling of my laft letters, which goe alongs with the fame bearer,
my Lord Confervatour, I receaved ane letter from Mr. Alexander Petrie, re
quiring me, in all haift, to com to the Hague : and that in the name of Sir
Jofeph Douglas, a commiffioner then aryved from Scotland, with letters to
the King's Majeftie ; but about what errand he did not writ, neither could
he. Though the weather was very unfeafonable and ftormie, and my health
not the bed, as ufually it falls out with me in March, yet I chuifed rather to
rune thefe hazards then to be wanting to that gentleman's defy re. When
I come to the Hague, I enquyred for him, and afked what was the errand for
which he had fent for me. He told me, that he had brought over letters
from the Commiffion of the Kirk, and delyvered them to Mr. Alexander
7 The envelopes or addresses of this and the next letter, are not preserved.
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Petrie, to be fent to me ; fo I fent a expres to Rotterdam for thefe letters,
which, when they come to my hand, I fand them a pakket from yow of the
7th February, wherby ye defyre me to haften to the Hague, and deal with
fuch who are lykly to have credite with the King's Majefly, for perfuading
him to doe what ye require of him, viz. to joyne with Scotland in both the
Covenants. The perfons whom ye defigned were ether abfent out of Hol
land, as Dr. Rivet, Apollonius, or fuch who are not of credite with courtiers,
or fuch who are knouen to make only ufe of the Court favour for their privat
ends ; and therfor I did bethink my felf of another mean to eife&uat that
end, which was by addrefling my felf to the Prince of Orange his Highnes.
For this purpofe I took pains to informe my felf, the bed I could, of
the prefent pofture of counfels fuggefted to the King's Majefty, and the
reafons for them ; and I fand, that all thefe defigned by our late Soverainge
to be his Son's counfellours, while he was Prince of Walis, viz. Cottington,
Andover, Culpeper, Hyde, advyfed, that he fould goe directly for Ireland ;
this did James Grame [Marquis of Montrofe] urge alfo in grittefl vehemen-
*cy ; and if that could not prevail, uthers wer of advyfe that the King was to
com to Scotland armata manu, becaus no truft could be given to fuch who
were leading men in our Parlament ; partly becaus they thought ther was
reafon to fufpe6t the fincerity and reality of fom who ufed fuch a fair in
vitation, only to get the King in their pouer, whoes advancement they
never thought more to procure then they did his Father's, partly becaus they
thought that though thefe who invite him do really intend, yet they are
not able to mantein him againit the Englifh ufurpers, if they doe not recal
their late a6ls againft fuch who has had a hand in the engadgment, and joine
al their pouers together : " But (this fay they) they will never doe, and fo
they fal not be able to protect the King ; but being ftraitned by the Englifh,
will be content to buy their peace with quyting the King." And heir, to mak
this probable, pregnant inftances are brought in of my Lord Chancelours
papers againft the dely very of the King to the Parlament, prefled by unan-
fuerable reafons which yet was neglected altogether, by delyvery of the King
within few moneths therefter. The uther inftance was of the treating of our
Commiflioners with the late King at the Hand of Wight, and our not per
forming our promife accordingly. But ther was a thrid party, who, though
they be not of the King's counfel, yet, out of love to him and their coun-
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trey, rejected the two former projects as bloody, tending to the utter ruining
of the King and all Proteflants, and did by all means labour to perfuade
his Majefty to go to Scotland upon the very fame terms they did require.
That if he did not goe, and that haftely, with a refolution to feal the Cove
nants, he wald alienat the hearts of all the Proteflants in al his kingdoms
from him : and this was preffed by the Erls Lauderdail, Calender, Lanrick,
with fuch evident felf denyal of ther oune interefts, as being grievoufly cen-
fured by this prefent Parliament, that had the King bein left to himfelf, it
was thought he could not but follow their advyfe. This honed cariadge of
thefe thrie Noblemen I can bear witnes unto, as having heard them proteft
it in privat, and underftanding from uthers alfo, who are our enemies, and
do curfe the hour that they have bein caft heir to fpoyle the game they
thought fure. Beleive me, I doe acknowledge the good providence of God
in catting them heir at this tyme : they have done more good for the coun-
trey than if they had bein fitting in Parlament.
My next was to find out wherto the Prince of Orange was inclined. For
this purpofe, I went to tuo of the States General, of whofe intimacy with the
Prince's counfels all men did fpeak : I fand them not only declaring their
aune judgement for the King's going to Scotland, and embracing the Cove
nant ; but that that alfo was the Prince's mynd. From thence I went to
fundry uthers, but from none did I get furer information then from the Lord
of Beverwerd, governour of Bergen, natural fon to Prince Maurice, a nobleman
treuly pious, and of a public fpirit, refolute to imploy his credite for relligion,
and of high account with the Prince, in whofe counfels he hes chief influence ;
as in fpeaking to fome of the Eftates and uthers, the Confervatour joyned
himfelf with me, fo heir alfo, for which it will be weell done to thank him,
for ye may be affured he was both faithful and diligent even at that nik
of tyme, when the bufiines was in a crifis. Now having found whereto the
Prince inclined, my nixt thoughts wer to underfland fo much out of his oune
mouth, and to confirme him in what good refolution I fould find in him,
efpecially to remove fome fcruples and objections wherwith many told he
was dayly aflaulted. For this end, a contreyman of ours promifed to bring
me to the Prince ; hot performed it not, or at leaft wald have me to wait
fo long upon it, that I fould be made to think it fome gritt favour. For
this court policy I learned, which made me refolve to goe in my old way,
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and by the mediation of one of his Highnes counfellers, I was brought in to
him, and had the freedom of a long hour's fpeech, where I fand God's
affiftance and blefling ; his afliftance, in inabling me both with words and
matter, for it was in Dutch ; and his bliffing, in making the Prince fo
attentive to what I faid, fo defirous to know the trew grounds of things,
fo apprehenfive, and fo fully refolved with us for his Majefty going to
Scotland upon the conditions proponed. I fal give yow a ftiort and com
pendious account of what parted then.
After I had thanked his Highnefs for his favour in granting me fo
reddy audience, and defyred to know if I might, with his good lyking, pro
pone what I intended in Latin or Englilh, rather than Dutch, and he defyring
me to doe it in Dutch : Then I firfl condoled the parricid of our late King
his Father8 : (how how it was abhorred by the Eftaits of our Kingdom, how
contrar to our Covenant, whofe end, among uther things, was the faifty of the
King's }>erfon ; how not only the State had proclaimed his Son to be their
• King, bot the miniflery of the kingdom alfo according to their places, had
done their deuty, and had given affurance of their loyal affection to our
prefent King, by their letters to him ; and by their cair that he may be per-
fwaded in tyme to fhun that wicked counfel, whilk drove his late Father to
fuch courfes, that they had given me ordour to deal with al who could con
tribute any thing to the advancement of this good work ; and that I could
look upon none from whom I had reafon to exfpecl; more good than his High
nes, who, by being inftrumental heirin, wald gaine gritter honour then by
gayning of touns, &c. He anfuered, " That ther was nothing more acceptable
to him, than that he was looked upon as one who fould employ himfelf for
the advancement of relligion, and that now, if ever, the Reformed Relligion
was in danger ; that ther was no probable means to prevein the utter extir
pation of it, but by efpoufing the young King's quarrell ; and that he, for his
part, could not but pitty the young King, tome as it were betuixt fuch con
trar}' counfels ; that reafons produced by all parties feemed to be fpecious,
yet how fair foever men did fpeak, he thought it madnes for a Proteftant to
chuis rather to truft to a Papift, than a Proteftant who mynded truely." " And
if ever (fayd I) any State mynded treuly, it is our prefent State ; their
William of Nawau, Prince of Orange, married Mary, eldest daughter of King Charles
the First : He died 6th of November 1650, aged 24.
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haftines in proclayming, that cheerfulnes of all joining together, doe witnes
this ; and now their reddines to efpoufe the King's caufs, if he firft will
efpoufe God's caufs, though they know any undertakings of that kynd to
be joyned with grit dangers." " But what (fayd he) may be exfpected of the
minifters ? And heir he fpok much of the grit influence their advyfe hes in
the Eftait. To this I anfwered, that whatfoever any Prince can exfpec~l of
good fubjecls, that may our King look for at the hands of the Minifters, if
he imploy his pouer for the honouring of C[hrift] ; and that al the pouer
they have in the hearts of the people will be for the King's advantage. Heir
he fpok fomthing of the grit precifnes of our minifters, who could not be
content with that about relligion, whilk our late King had granted, and where
with the Parlament of England itfelf was weel neigh fatiffied. Heir I was
reddy to have anfuered ; but he patted this, and fpoke of the conditions we
require of the King, viz. his accepting and entering into the Covenants.
And I, at his defyre, having explaned what thefe Covenants were, and how
diftinguifhed : " Then (fayed he) he will be eafely brought to fubfcribe the
Covenant, whilk concerns Scotland alone; (he meant our Nationall Cove
nant;) but that uther Covenant betuixt Scotland and England, he feared
fould find gritter difficulty : 1. Becaufe al the King's counfellers, to wit, thefe
four Englilh wald be againft it : 2. Becaufe it requyred a delyvering up to
juftice thefe who are called malignants. 3. Becaufe, as by fubfcribing it
the King wald pleafe us, fo he wald difpleafs the Papifts in Ireland, and all
forraine PopHh princes, who will not be fo foolifh as to favour him whoes
advancement is the ruine of ther relligion in his dominions. Uther reflbns
(fayd he) are urged, and I fal propone them ere ye goe." So I began to
anfuer ; and, firft, I (how that the firft Covenant of Scotland only provyds
as grit fecurity for relligion as the fecond doth, and therfor the King's coun
fellers who advyfe him to fubfcrib the one, and not the uther, for fear of dif-
pleafing Papifts, fpeaks they know not of what, for ther is not a Papift who
is not more difpleafed with the firft than the fecond." And he afking me,
Why ar the King's counfellors fo much againft it ? I anfuered, " That they
durft not doe utherwayes than difluade our yong King from the Solem
League, fince they had ever diffuaded his Father from it ; if they wald now
chainge, the yong King, and your Highnes, who is fo gritly interefied, fould
have reafon to look upon them as men whofe confcience did condem them for
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the abufmg the father." Heir I took occafion to reprefent to his Highnes the
grit inconvenience of the aboad of fuch counfellers about the King's perfon ;
that if a courfe were not taken to baniflie them from his prefence, they wald
reddely prove as unhappy inftruments to the Son as they have been to the
Father ; and that they are they who advyfe the King to flight the prefentation
of Scotland, and to go to Irland, chuifing rather he fould not reigne then that
thev fould not reigne alfo with him; men, of whofe religion the world, to
this hour, was never fatiffied. So far as I could mark, his Highnes feemed
not to be difpleafed with this. " As for the King's delyvering up of all malig
nants to juflice, (I anfuered,) the Covenant doth not requyr that all malig-
nants fal be punilhed, but only tryed, and left to the judgement of the Parla
ment." " But (fayed he) ye cal any man a malignant whom ye pleas, though
he profes he adhere to the Covenant, and all his aims are for the ends of it."
Heir he brought in, for inftance, the Ac"ls of our prefent Parlament, declar
ing all who had ane hand for the engadgement uncapable of any place of truft
ther whole lyf : And yet, fayed he, " The world did read their declaration,
quhilk fpak very fair, and the Parlament did all that work : I wald therfor
gladly know who are the Malignants, for I find that ther is no argument that
fo works upon his Majeftie as that." Heir, I profes, I was at a flrait : for to
have given him fuch a characler of a Malignant as the Commiffioners of the
Generall Aflemblie did give fome two yeers fince, wald not have ferved the
t units the cafe being now altogether altered, in fo far, that he is to be
thought more a malignant who doth approve the bloody acts of that treacher
ous crew, now ufurping the name of a Parlament in England, then any who
did ever fight againfl them ; and therfor I came to the diftinguiming of
malignants, fome whole aimes appeared evidently to be for their aune felfs,
either that they might abyd in a capacity to tyrannize over their fellow-fub-
je&s, or to raife their fortuns, alreddy difperat by the publik trubles. Such
malignants were juflly unpardonable, and they had none to blame for the
mine of themfelfs and their families, but their aune obftinacie. As for uthers,
in whom it doth appear that privat and by-ends hes not fet them a work,
their cafe is pitied ; and it hes ever bein the cuftom of the Parlaments of Scot
land, to fail rather in too grit clemency then cruelty. " Weil, (fays the Prince,)
if ye that are minifters will not imploy your utmoft credite for uniting of all
your contrey (I mean not, fays he, of fuch who have bein bloody obftinat
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enemies to yow,) ye may lofs both yourfelfs and the caufe ; and I know ther
is nothing that fould more confound the counfels of al your enemies than to
fee yow forget quarrells amongft yourfelfs ; for this, they always fay, How
can Scotland, thus divided, be able to doe any thing of moment, fince the
forces of the party who now rules, is but waik enough to fupprefs their
enemies ? I therfor doe as earneftly recommend this to yow, that ye wald
acquaint your minifters with it, as they by yow do recommend their buflines :
If I did not think it tending to the inabling of yow to make your party
good, I fould not open my mouth about it." Heir he enlarged himfelf very
pertinently, and fel upon the project of ane a6l of oblivion, and told me
" That the party who now rules, will not be fo evil advyfed as to reject this
motion, if they but wald confider how fuddenly things may be changed."
I affure yow he could tell me faults committed in our prefent governement,
whereof I was wholly ignorant ; which he fayeth he learned from the King's
Englifh counfel, when they were debatting the very laufulnes of our Scottim
Parlament, whither laufully indyted, mantening flrongly that that Committee
quhilk called it, had no pouer becaufe they had not fubfcryved the a6ls of
the former Parlament ; " but (fayed he) I quikly crufhed fuch a motion in
the very (hell."
" But (fayes he) the King by fubfcryving that Covenant will difengadge
a! Papifts from his fervice, both in Irland and elfwher, and al but Prelby-
terians ; for it obleidges the King to root out Papiftry every wher in his domi
nions, quhilk he is not able to doe in the condition wherein he is." I an-
fuered, " That fame argument our late Soverainge ufed ; but how dommadgful
his going about to pleafour papifts was, doolful experience hes taught, for Ir
land fpecially : it hes bein that quhilk hes withdrauen the hearts of the Pro-
teilants from him, more than any thing elfe. And what advantadge took thefe
Irifch papifts at the King's weaknes ? When they capitulated with him, what
little performance did the King find of their big promifes, and fince ever
he began to meddle with them, did not his condition decay dayly ? That the
condition of Proteftants called Prefbyterians, in Grit Britan and Irland is
not fo mean, but if the King wald chearfully joine himfelf to them, as
Caput et Vindex Feeder is, ther wald be no doubt of grit and good fucces.
As for the particulers, how much they could doe, I durft not take it upon
me to fpeak : only I was fure that in al Scotland ther was not a man who
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wald not be for the King ; and in England, for one Independant, ther wald
be found thrie Prefbyterians ; and the reft, being either Hierarchical men
or Papifta, if they wald not affift the King, they wald far les aflift the traiterous
fe&aries." " I perceive (fayed his Highnes) what ye mean, but how many
Prefbyterians fo ever ye be, if ye live at a diflance, as I hear ye doe now in
Scotland, ye will be able to doe nothing at all. It is a work fitting your call
ings to unite the hearts of all your grit men, whom ye know to be Proteftants."
And heir, I fufpe&ing that it might his Highnes did mean Montrofe, as
they call him, who is frequently at Court, and more hemly with many than
welcome, I fayed, " I hoped his Highnes did not mean of that man, whom
apoftacie, perjurie, and unheard cruelty had made fo odious to all in our
contrey, that they could not hear of his name." He prefently gave me to
underfland that he meant not him, or any fuch ; for by the comportment
of our Scottifh noblemen at Court now, he perceives how odious James
(iniinc moil be at home ; for they will not falute or fpeik to him ; nay, not
look where they think he is, and this I have obferved with my auine eyes.
• At lad, having anfuered al his queftions, I repeited my defire, and
humbly prayed his Highnes to continew in that holy and wholfome refolu-
tion ; and to improve his credite with our King, that a fatiffactory anfuer may
be given with all haift, fhauing the danger of delay. " But (fays he) when
will your Commiffioners come to his Majeftie ? I anfuered, " I thought not
until the gentleman returned with ane anfuer to Scotland." He afked me
If I knew who they fould be ? I anfuered, that I knew not. " Will any
rainifters come ?" fayed he. I anfuered, " That I queftioned not but fome
fould come, who fould be able to fatiffy al his Highnes's fcruples better then
I poflibly could." " I wifhe (fayes he) fome minifters fould come for fundry
reflbns." I replyed, " That they fal come the more cheerfully when they fal
underfland how much your Highnes doth engadge yourfelf for perfuading
the King's Majeftie to go to Scotland, with a refolution to fubfcrive both
the Covenants." « Then (fayed the Prince) ye may confidently aflure
them that I fal doe my utmoft endeavour ; and come ye to me to-morrow,
and I fal tel yow what ye may exfpecV'
So away went I, and to-morrow, being admitted to his prefence, he told me,
He had made it his work yefternight to perfuade the King's Majefty ; that
the refolution was taken to fatiffie the defires of the Parlament of Scotland ;
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and that in al haift letters were to be written of, in anfuer to what the King
received." And heir againe he recommended the cair of uniting all our
noblemen in one, in paffing by what faults hes bein the laft yeer ; and told
me, it fould be moft welcom news to him, if I fould let him know that any
thing were done in reference to this. And
Thus, Coufine, ye have the fubftance of that difcourfe, by which ye may fie
I have obtained the end of your letter, and that in a fitter way then ye pre-
fcribed. I moft earneftly entreat yow, that ye would reprefent to the Reve
rend Brethren of the Commiflion how much the fame of rigidity, ufed by them
again.ft the laft yeer's engadgers, is lyke to endanger the reputation of our Kirk
abroad, and lyke alfo to make prefbyterial governement hatefull. My heart
trembles when I think of this ; for I am certanly enformed, by a printer, that
that infamous perfon who goes under the name of Grallator,9 hes a big
volume reddy, of the late practifes of the Scottifh Kirk in the exercife of dif-
cipline, which ye may think are willingly furnifhed to him by fome banifhed
Scotfmen. Secondly, That all lovers of our c#us and nation do unanimoufly
judge that ther is no probable means of our faifty if we unite not and pack
not up all quarrels amongft our felfs ; if ther be not ane amnejlia for the laft
yeer's engadgement ; for that fuch had reafon to challenge the Englifh army
overpouring the Parliament, for breach of Covenant ; and that their feares of
mifcheif againft the King were not caufles, he is blind who fees not. If ther
were faults in the compaffing that work, as I doubt not but ther hes bein very
grit ones, yet let not defy re of juftice againft thefe circumftantial faylings, lead
us to feek the ruine of thefe men ; or by excluding them from governement,
deprive the kingdom of their abilities, and waiken our felfs fo, that we fall not
be able to oppofe thefe treacherous and bloody Sectaries to purpofe. If any
of our Reverend Brethren had been heir to have been ear-witneffes what thrie
of the Lords now put in your firft claflis, did heir, in oppofition to the Englifh
counfel and Montrofe, and all uthers who were for Irland, fure I am they wald
have blefied God who brought them hither in this nick of tyme.
If any Commiffioners fal come, I intreat yow, fie that fome of the ableft of
our miniftery come alfo, who may be able to ftand againft Dr. Steuart and
fuch lyke, if occaiion fould ferve, and may ferve for the honour of our Kirk
9 Graliator, one who walks on stilts or crutches. — Spang here alludes to Dr. Bramhall's
publication, vide infra, note page 87-
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with the Dutches alfo. If the lot fal on yow that ye moft come, ye will let
me know fo much, that I may attend yow. Ye may be fure I fal moft will
ingly contribute my little myte for the advancing of this fo good a work.
Oh ! if the Lord wald blifs it, fo might we yet hope for light in the midft of
this darknes wherewith we are threatened. Ye writ to me that Mr. James
Hamiltoune hes ordour to keep correfpondence with me. He hes begun, I
hear, with Mr. Alexander Petrie, but forgotten me ; yet falute him, together
wit hall the reverend brethren of the miniftery of my acquaintance ; efpecially
Mr. David, Mr. Robert Douglas, and our freinds in the Weft.
The ,99th March 1649, Your Coufine,
In my Chalmer at Hague. W. ANDERSON.
MR. WILLIAM SPANG TO MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.
Tibijoli.
' COUSIN,
THE inclofed will acquaint yow with my diligence in what ye recommended
to me. I have reafon to be glad that the honed party at home with yow have
fuch a good opinion of me, as of one whom they conceive willing to Lmploy him-
felf for the public! : Let me never live longer than whilft I have a defire to
improve what is in me that way, which makes me more curious in alking for
the grounds of your actions then utherwayes I wald be ; and my doubts are
meerly proponed that I, getting fatiffaclion, may be able to fatiffy uthers.
With all whom I have conferred with about the buffines for which I went to
Holland, I fand none complayning lefs of the rigid feverity of the Kirk and
Parlaraent's proceidings with yow than thefe thrie Noblemen, whom it moft
concerned, as being thefe who are made to leave their countrey, and to fuffer
the plundering of their goods by thefe fevere acts. I will not queftion what
equity is in your dealing fo with them ; but ye will find it had conduced
more for the publick to have ufed gritter lenity : Neither (fo far as wyfer men
then I am doe fee,) fal ye ever have any fure peace without refcinding this
laft ac% of your ranking, whom ye have pleafed to call Malignants, into four
clafles : paflion hes bein too grit in that act ; for it is judged a gritter fin not
to proteft againft that late Engadgment than to be a ordinary drunkard, fince
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it is declared punifhable with a more fevere puniftiment. Both freinds and
enemies told me, that that favoured much of the Romifti feverity, where eat
ing of flefh being a breach of man's law, is more heavely punifhed then noto
rious tranfgreffions of God's ; and be allured that our enemies will proclame
quickly this, with much more to the world, by print. Yet, as I have written,
thefe three Noblemen digeft patiently all what is done againft them, and are
moft vigilant and active for promoving of your ends. Ye are not difappointed
in your hopes of noble Lauderdail and Lanrick, and, I aflure yow, of the
Earl of Calender, who told me, in plaine terms, that the King may with gritter
affurance confide in thefe who now rule with yow then in uthers : ye know
whom I mean. If ye come hither, and do not bring a full refcinding of what
the Parlament hes decreed againft them, ye will be looked upon as moft in-
grate men ; and none lhall be gladder of their mifery than the Englifh malig-
nants and James Grame, becaufe they doe and have fo oppofed their plots.
Lykwife, it wald be needfull that ye remitted much of that rigour quhilk, in
your Church Aflemblies, ye ufe againft minifters who have proven your grit
freinds ever before. It will be better to let the fails fal fomquhat laigher in
tyme, befor a ftorme compel yow ; or thefe who think God fo highly glorified
by cafting out their brethren, and putting fo many to beggerie, making roume
through fuch depofitiones to yong youths, who are oft mifcaried with igno
rant zeal, may be made, through their aune experience, to feel what it is,
which now, without pitty, is executed upon uthers. Generally, the grit pouer
quhilk the Commiffion of the Kirk exerceth difpleafeth all : It is but a ex
traordinary meeting, and yet fits conftantly and more ordinarly than any
Synod ; yea and without the knouledge of provincial Synods and Prefby-
teries, depofes minifters, injoyns, pro authoritate, what writs they pleafe to
be read, inflicls cenfures on thefe who will not read them. If the Kirk of
Scotland look not to this in tyme, we will lament it when we can not mend it.
They fay four or fyve rule that meeting ; and is not the liberty of the Kirk
come to a fair market therby ? We have an a6l that nothing fal be brought
to a gritter meeting quhilk hes not firft bein treated of in a fmaller ; but
now your compend of the Generall Aflemblie, or rather deputies of it, at the
firft inftance, judge of matters, which might be better handled in leiTer meet
ings. For God's faik, look this courfe in tyme be flopped, elfe the Commif
fion of the Kirk will fwallow up all uther ecclefiaftick judicatories ; and fuch
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miniftere who refide in and about Edinburgh, fall at lafl ingrofs aU church
pouer in their hands. I know ther is a peece of prudence herby ufed, to get
the pouer in the hands of thefe who are good ; but what aflurance have we
but they may change, or uthers, following this courfe, creep into their places ?
We meet with dayly regraits that the antient minifters are contemned, and
the infolency of yong ones foftered, the very forrunner of Jerufalem's de
finition. The Lord mak us wyfe in tyme.
Mr. Samuel Rutherford is called to be Profeffor of Divinity and the
Hebrew tonge in the new Univerfity of Harderwick. I have prefently re
ceived a letter from Dr. Valkenier, Profeflbr of Divinity there, with one
inclofed to Mr. Samuel ; he writes to me that the States of Gelder, to whom
that Univerfity doth belong, hes fent him his letters of call fome moneths
fmce, and defirs me to write alfo to him to haften his coming : This is by
Dr. Voetius and Steuart's ftiring. Ye moft be weil advyfed at home what
to doe, if our Kirk can want fuch a man, in the grit fcarfnefs of fuch. It is
not his Engliih writs that commendeth him fo much, as his Latin treatife
againfl the Jefuites and Arminians. If ye had publiihed any thing in Latin
ye wald not be fufired to (lay where ye are, but then ye fould have loft your
place in yeerly Provincial Synods. Scottifh minifters are generally looked
upon by the Engliih to be fo rigid in difcipline that there is no hope for any
of our nation to have a place among them. Befides, the diffention of the
nations, what a fearfull judgment of God is this upon us, that what we
thought fould have joyned the nations unfeparably, is lyk to be the great
feparator of them : it fears me many of our hearts in the perfute of it have
not been upright. I know not how this my freenefs may be taken by fome ;
but it comforts me that I am allured ye know it comes from a heart addidled
to the weelfair of our Kirk, no wayes difcontented, that the godly party have
fuch a fuey ; only I wiihe we ufed prudence, leift we open a door to tyrannic,
whilft we think to (hut out tyrants out of the Kirk. The Divel hes many
wyles to miflead men. That monfter of Papacy walked raodeftly at firft, and
it was good but imprudent men that led the way to it.
Ye will not doe weil to refuis coming hither when our Commiffioners
come : I wifhe both wyfe and moderat godly men come with you : all the
countrey's eyes will be upon yow more than upon thefe whom the State
fends. I hear much of Mr. Robert Douglas's moderation, (Oh ! we mifs
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now that precious fervant of Chrift, Mr. Alexander Henderfon) : he wald
be a man fitt for this purpofe : whofoever comes, fee that ye come, and
byde not behind. If ye think I can be ufeful for yow, let me be informed
at your firft arryval to Holland. Ye will find our yong Prince of Orange,
one of the hopfulleft youths that ever Europe brought forth, and willing to
doe al good offices for the caufe : but more of this if God bring yow hither,
and I be alive. My wyfe hopes to fee yow heir, and to clear your mynd
from thefe doubts ye conceive that fhe is the caufe of my filence. Salute
yours with your hopefull family, and all our freinds, both your colleagues
in the Colledge and Miniflry, and our blood freinds : the Lord direct yow
al by his Holy Spirit.
When ye fend Commiffi oners of State, let them be fuch as fpeak good
French, if not Latine. It will be no great wifdom that who are fent mud
be directed or made to depend upon any but ther auine prudence. Ye will
doe weil to confider weel of the letter, quhilk anno 1646, the Aflemblie
writ to our late King ; for the Independents makes it a part of the rule they
walked by. And, 2dly, they fay, that in your lafl AfTembly ye have declar
ed that thefe words of the Covenant wher ye fpeak of defending the King's
perfon and authority, in the defence of relligion and liberties, are explayned
to be a limitation and excluding your obedience to him and defence of him,
except in fuch acts : And then fays the bloody Independant, " Their put
ting the King to a violent death is not againfl the Covenant ; for they have
put him to death not for his defending relligion and the Parlament's liberties,
but for going about the overthrow of both :'? Think of this. 3dly, Be
ready to clear your late prac"lifes againfl the refolution of a lauful Parlament,
and that by fome few, from being a ground of the army as privat men doing
the lyk in England.
I mervel where Sir Jofeph Douglas flayed fo long, that we doe not
hear from him thefe eight dayes. The fhip of war quhilk our Confer-
vatour got for himfelf, he procured a letter from the Prince to caufe it
flay for Sir Jofeph ; and when it comes to Scotland it mufl flay the Parla
ment or my Lord Chancellor's ordour : it is reddy, and the winds fair, but
Sir Jofeph is yet at the Hague. Certanly our countrey is much oblidged to
our prefent Lord Confervatour, Thomas Cunyngham. It is a pity they let
him be fo great a lofer for his grit reddines to furnifhe them in their need.
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That wretched committee of your former Par-lament, by the Lord Cochran's
malice, were going about to wrong him gritly ; if he get not contentment now
when honeft men rule, ye will find lefs credite heirafter. Let him know how
reall I am for him, as ye know I am to all to whom I profefs friendfhip.
Since the wryting of this, and the uther letter of this fame dait, I bethought
myfelf to write another letter, quhilk, if ye think fit, ye may communicat it to
uthers, yea to the Commiflion, but upon condition that no man mifconftrue
my meaning. I know how reddy men will be in thir ticklefom tyms to in-
tertane jealoufies of their brethren, and to make men offenders for a word ;
and therfor I remit the publishing of it to uthers to your prudence. I only
relate what I have from uthers, and thefe not malignants, but freinds. Mo-
derat counfells ufed to be of account, and festina lente was a advyfe never
a man repented of.
I write this thrid letter fince Sir Jofeph his coming hither, and that I heard
fuch a change in the King. I entreat yow not to fpair any occafion in wryt
ing to me : with our Confervatour, or the fbip of war, ye will have a fit
opjx>rtunity. Tymous and ful information how matters (land with yow in
good earned, may do much good, and fince our Prince of Orange is fo
earned, from tyme to tyme, to know the edait of our effairs, that he may be
able to help us wherein he can, it is reafon we fatiffie him. I have promifed
to give him notice of what I fal know.
Your Coufin,
W. ANDERSON.
19th March 1649.
For your felf only.
MR. ROBERT BAILLIE'S SPEECH TO KING CHARLES THE SECOND, MARCH
27™ 1649: SPOKEN AT THE HAGUE IN THE KING'S BED-CHAMBER,
TUESDAY, THREE O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON.
MOST GRACIOUS SOVERAIGNE,
IN this very fad and calamitous time, THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND hath
ent fome of us, who are here, Minifters and Ruleing Elders, and others
who are yet behind, in Commiflion to your Majeftie, to declare, in their
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name, not only the fincere and deep griefe of that whole Church for your
Majeftie's moft lamentable afflictions, but alfo their reall and great joy for
your Majeftie's fucceffion to the Throne, and their confident hopes, by the
bleffing of the Moft High on your royall perfon and government, now at
laft to come up out of that pitt of grievous confufions, calamities, fears, and
dangers, wherein long they have been linking.
According therefore to this our truft, we doe declare, what in our owne
breaft often we have felt, and generally in the people among whom we live,
have feen with our eyes, ane mournfull forrow for that execrable and tragick
parricide ; which, though all men on earth ihould pafle over unqueftioned,
yet we nothing doubt but the great Judge of the world will arife, and plead
againft every one, of what condition foever, who have been either authors,
or actors, or confenters, or approvers, of that hardly expreffible crime,
which ftamps and ftigmatifes, with a new and before unfeen character of
infamy, the face of the whole generation of Sectaries and their adherents,
from whofe hearts and hands that vileft villany did proceed.
We doe alfo profeffe, in name of them who have fent us hither, the great
joy of all forts of men in our land for the immediate filling of the vacant
Throne with your Majeftie's moft gracious and hopefull perfon ; earneftly
praying, that the light of the Lord's countenance may fhyne fo bright
upon your Majeftie's reign, that the very thick clouds of our prefent
dangers and fears may flie away, and a new morning may fpring up,
to all your three Kingdomes, of greater peace and profperitie, of more
righteoufnefs and virtue, efpeciallie of more religion and piety, than hath
been feen in the days of any, the moft pious, the moft juft, the moft prof-
perous, of all your numerous Anceftors.
For the prefent, we are loath to take up more of your Majeftie's precious
time ; only we prefent the Letter1 of our Church ; and what further moft
loyall defyres we have in commiflion, we fhall, God willing, be ready, in
all humility, to offer fo foone as we mail know of a fitt opportunity, to
ftand againe in your Majeftie's moft gracious prefence.
1 The letter from the Commission of the Church is dated the 7th February 1 649. It will
be given in the Appendix, along with a copy of " The Report of the Commissioners of the
Church of their Proceedings with his Majesty at the Hague, made in the General Assembly,
July 10, 1649."
LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1649.
OUR LETTER TO THE. COMMISSION. APRIL 3o [1649.]
REVEREND AND BELOVED BRETHREN,
THIS is the firft opportunity we have had of making to you any accompt of
our proceedings. On Thurfday, at night, March 22d, the Lord brought us
all fafe to- Rotterdame ; on the Fryday we went to Delph. There we thought
meet to reft till the Monday, both becaufe of our own refolution to keep one
dav of humiliation in our familie for making our firft addrefles to God, as alfo
becaufe of our information, by fome of our friends who mett us at the Delph,
that his Majeftie would be taken up with his Eafter devotions till Tuefday
following. We therefore, on the Sabbath, did preach and pray in our familie,
and found the goodnefs of the Lord with us ; and on the Monday did put
our papers and affaires in order. At night we came to the Hague, and fpake
with fome friends, who were not many here. On the Tuefday, the fecond
afternoon, we went to the Court, and had a favourable reception. My Lord
Caffillis did fpeak to his Majeftie in name of the Parliament and Kingdome,
and Mr. Robert Baillie in name of the Church. So farr as we could learn,
what was fpoken was taken in good part by all who heard. We then de-
lyvered our letters to his Majeftie. The reft of that day, and the following,
was fpent in vifiting the Queen of Boheme, the Princefs Royall, the Prince
of Orange, the Princefs Dowager, and the Eftates Generall.
The Commiflioners of Parliament found it neceflary to give in, as previous
to their defyres, a paper, for removeing of James Grahame from Court.
His Majeftie's anfwer, under his owne hand, was, " That he defyred and
expected all our propofitions together ; to which he hoped to give a fatif-
factorie anfwer." With this we were not content ; bot. prefied againe our de-
fyre, the Commiflioners of Parliament by ane other paper ; and we alfo
by one, fecond theirs, a copie whereof we fend yow herewith. The King's
fecond anfwer was an abyding in the firft. We had all of us fome difcourfe
with his Majeftie about the equity and neceflity of that our defyre ; bot
James Grahame hath fo many and fo powerfull friends in the Englifh Coun-
cill, that as yet we cannot gett the King to difcountenance him.
On the Saturday morning we delyvered to his Majeftie the Nationall
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Covenant, the Solemne League and Covenant, the Directory, the Confef-
lion of Faith, the Catechife, the Propolitions of Government, bound to
gether in a booke fo handfome as we could gett them. We fpoke fomething
on the matter, and defy red of his Majeftie more frequent and private con
ferences ; who mew his willingneffe, and promifed to fend to us to advertife
of his fitteft opportunities. On the Sunday we preached in our own houfe.
We thought not meet to go to the Englifti congregation ; their diftractions
amongfl themfelves for the prefent being fo great, that our goeing there, we
conceave, mould have given offence, and prejudged our affaires.
On the Monday we purpofed to have given in our defyres, in the paper
which herewith alfo we fend, hot his Majeftie was abroad in the afternoon,
fo we delayed till this day. We cannot yet make any judgement of the
fucceffe. The moft part of the Councill are averfe from our defyres ; yet
we have our friends. His Majeftie is of a very fweet and courteous dif-
pofition : it were all the pities in the world hot he were in good com
pany. We hope he is not fo far rooted in any principles contrarie to us, hot
that, by God's blefiing on our friends labours, he may be gotten to doe
us reafone, whatfoever our fears be for the prefent. There is a very evill
generation both of Englilh and Scott s here, who vomite out all their evill
humour againft all our proceedings. The peace of France, and ane unhap-
pie book, Eixuv Ba<r/X«^ does us much prejudice. Alfo the fuppofed death
of Huntlye2 is wrefted to our difadvantage. Doctor Bramble3 of Derrie hes
printed the other day at Delph a wicked pamphlet againft our Church : We
have no time, nor doe we think it fitt, to print ane Anfwer ; hot by the grace
of God, (hall indeavour, with all faithfullnefs and diligence, to goe about our
inftructions. We had much need of your prayers. The grace of the Lord
Jefus Chrift be with yow, and protect that Church and Kingdome from all
the mifchiefs that the inftruments of Satan on all hands are prepareing to
2 George, second Marquis of Huntly, one of the Royalists who suffered at this time, was be
headed at the Cross of Edinburgh, 22d March 1649.
3 Dr. John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, and afterwards Archbishop of Armagh. His tract
here mentioned, bears the title of " A Fair Warning to take heed of the Scotish Disci
pline, &c." 1649, 4to. Baillie, notwithstanding the remark that follows, published a reply
to it, under this title, " A Review of Doctor Bramble, late Bishop of Londonderry, his Faire
Warning against the Scotes Disciplin. By R. B. G. Printed at Delf, 1649," 4to.
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bring upon us; bot our hope is in the name of the Lord, to whofe protec
tion we committ yow, and refts,
Your Brethren and Servants in the Lord,
CASSILLIS. ROBERT BAILLIE.
GEO. WINRAHAM. JAMES WOOD.
Hague, April 3d 1649-
MY FIRST LETTER TO MR. ROBERT DOUGLASS. APRIL SD [1649.]
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
BY the inclofed to the Commiflion of the Church, yow fee the ilate of our
affaires here. I wrote to Warriftone from Rotterdam what was the pofture
of our affaires, as then we were informed. As yet our fears are great of a
fore florme to Scotland ; yet yefternight I learned from a great perfon here,
. that our affaires, blefled be God, are not defperate. There is no Scotfman
that is on the King's councill : the five or fix Englifh that are, Cottington,
Culpepper, Hyde, Long, and fome more, are divided. The moft are of
Prince Rupert's faction, who carefles Montrofe, and preffe mightily to have
the King to Ireland: Culpepper and fome bed-chalmer-men, as Willmot, Byron,
Gerard, and the mafter of the horfe, Peircie, are of the Queen's faction,
and thefe are for the King's joyning with us ; bot all of them are much averfe
from the League and Covenant. The Prince of Orange, and by him all
the Nobles here, are for the laft ; and by their means we are fomewhat hope-
full yet to cary his Majeflie to our Covenant, and the mofl of our defyres
for Religion ; bot I dare not promife fo much : yet the greateft flick, I fuf-
jurt, (hall be our fevere Adls of Parliament. It feems all here, even our
beft friends, will be peremptor for a greater mitigation than, I fear, fhall be
granted by yow here. It were verily a great pitty of the King : he is one
of the mofl gentle, innocent, well-inclyned Princes, fo far as yet appears,
that lives in the world ; a trimme perfon, and of a manlie carriage ; under-
flands prettie well ; fpeaks not much : Would God he were amongfl us. I
fend yow herewith a copie of what I faid to him. Becaufe it was bot a
tranfient fpeech, I give out no copies of it here at all ; yet that we fpoke fo,
it did us much good ; for heavy flanders lay upon us here, which the report
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of our fpeeches helped to mitigate. Our enemies have great confidence, by
the French peace, to gett powerfull affiftance from France. I verily think,
if the King and we fhall agree, affiftance mail be gotten from this State, and
the Marquefs of Brandeburg, and fome others, for good purpofe. I pray
God guide yow there to put no more impediments to our agreeance than are
neceflary. My heart bleeds to think of a neceffitie for Scotland to have any
friendfhip with the Englifti fecl;aries, the worft of men, and a warre with our
King and countreymen in our own bowels. What relaxation yow may grant
with confcience, and fafelie, let it be done freely and publicklie with this
expreffe : It will admit upon no longer delay. Ye will communicat this to
my Lord Warriftone.
Your Brother,
Hague, April 3d 1649- R. BAYLIE.
MY SECOND LETTER TO MR. ROBERT DOUGLASS. APRIL 17TH [1649].4
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THOUGH I have nothing at this time for the Commiffion of the Church,
yet to yow I give this account of our further proceedings. After we had
given in our chiefe paper, a double whereof yow had in my laft, it was
thought meet we mould fpeake with the King feverally and privately. I
went to him firft. He gave me a long and very favourable audience, from
ten at night till near eleven. The contents of our free conference poffibly I
may fend yow on a fure occafion : at this time it is fcarce fafe, for there is
ane Englilh man-of-warre near the Brile that fearches all letters comes from
this : as yet we cannot gett it helped. In this conference I found the
King, in my judgement, of a very meeke and equitable difpofition, under-
ftanding, and judicious enough, though firme to the tenets his education
and companie hes planted in him. If God would fend him among us, with
out fome of his prefent counfellers, I think he might make, by God's bleff-
ing, as good a King as Brittaine faw thefe hundred yeares. Finding the
great fticke to be upon the League and Covenant, his own taking it, and
affureing to pafle it for England and Ireland ; of his perfuafion that his paff-
4 In Baillie's MS. this letter is repeated ; but the second copy only has the postscript.
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ing all the Aftsof Parliament, pafled or to be parted in Scotland, for taking of
it there, would be fatiffaftory, I drove by many reafons to (hew the unfatif-
faaorinefs of fuch a conceffion ; and the day thereafter, putt in wryte, the
chiefe of thefe my reafons, which I gave in wryte to the Prince of Orange,
whom, after two long private conferences, I left, as it feemed to me, fatiffied
with every one of them, and promifmg to prefs them as hard as he could on
the King. I fand he had caufed tranflate them in French, and had the fub-
ftance of them by heart. I found a way to acquaint his Mother with them,
who is a wife and religious lady, and promifes to hold her Son right. The
mod of the counfellors are for Ireland, and all, both they and the bed-chal-
mer-men, even they who are very great and reall friends, are yet againft our
defyre of the Covenant in England ; yet I am not defperate to get fome
fatiffa&ion therein. We are looking daylie for ane anfwer. I feare I muft
engage with Doctor Bramble ; for his Warning, it does fo much ill to the
King and all about him. We marvell ye write nothing to us. We have
been vexed thefe eight days with conftant reports here of the North's ryfe-
' ing, and David Lefley's retireing. However it be, ye (hould not leave us fo
long without all information. No fcrape hes any of us gotten, fince we faw
vow, from any man. In hafte, I reft,
Your Brother,
Hague, April 17th 1649. R. BAYLIE.
By a good friend of myne, a Dutch Statefman, I gott this double of the
two papers the King gave in to the States- Generall ; as yet he hes gotten no
anfwer. The particular Provinces are acquainted therewith, but hes not yet
returned their mind. Surely, if his Majeftie and we agree not, I fee no
human way either of his or our prefervation ; but God is great and good.
It were a thoufand pities that fo fweet a man fhould not be at one with
all his people.
FOR MR. WILLIAM SPANG. SEPTEMBER HTH 1649.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
YOUR letters are much rarer than they wont to be. Except that with
Captain Gorcum, I faw none of yours fince I was with yow ; only I have
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heard thefe yow fent with the young man Thomfon of Edinburgh were taken
with his trunk by ane Irifh friggat. I hope yow gott my old long ones,
which my nephew David Donald delivered to my Lord Lauderdaill to be
fent to yow ; let me know if you have them, and thefe I gave to the Con-
fervator, to be fent back with Gorcum, wherein was my letter to Mr. Nivein
of Dort, to deliver yow fourtie crofs-dollers. For his negligence to fend
them, as be promifed when I was there, I have payed to their owner thirty
Scotts pounds. When yow have gotten thefe fourty dollers, and the twelve
rex-dollers I gave to your mother, let me know what yow want of three
hundreth merks in crofs-dollers which I gott from the Colledge. In your
firfl letters to the Colledge, tell them yow have that much of me, for which
yow fhall compt. Shew me what I am refting, and if I mail fend it in crofs-
dollers to yow with the firfl occafion, or what other way yow will. Caffillis
and Warriflone lykes weell of your intelligence : let it be continued.
I thought to have fent yow a particular accompt of this Generall Aflem-
blie as I had done of fome others ; hot the diary I wrote in the time, I loft ;
fo I cannot now doe it ; neither were there much in it worth the remembrance.
The liteing of two for the moderation fell to Mr. Robert Douglafs, the ante
penult moderator : Mr. Gillefpie, the laft, was departed, and Mr. Blaire, the
penult, never thorough weell fince his Engliih journey, was not able to come
to Edinburgh, whereof I was very forry. The two Mr. Robert lited were,
Mr. Andrew Cant in earned, and Mr. Mungo Law for a famion. The three
the Aflembly added were, Mr. Robert Douglafs, Mr. John Livingfton, and,
by equall voyces, Mr. David Dickfone and me ; but neither of us two would
remove upon equall voyces ; fo, without queftion, the voyces for moderation,
fell on Mr. Robert Douglafs, whereof my heart was exceeding glad ; for I
was very feared for it, and it had done me great hurt. The committees were
framed according to the cuftom by the Moderator and Clerk in private,
and read at the next feflion, without any change confiderable. We fpent
very much time ; whole five weeks : I thought a fortnight lefs might weell
have done our turne. Tranfportations took up much tyme, and depofitions
of minifters. There had been diverfe commiffions, eaft, weft, fouth, and
north, who had depofed many minifters, to the pitie and griefe of my heart ;
for fundry of them I thought might have been, for more advantage every
way, with a rebuke, keeped in their places ; but there was few durft profeffe
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fo much ; and I, for my ingenuous freedom, loft much of my reputation, as
one who was inclyning to malignancie.
My Speech to the King, fpeaking fo fharplie of his Father's death, and the
commendations I gave to himfelfe in the preface of my book, but efpecially a
paffage of a letter I wrote from Holland, wherein, to a familiar friend, I fpeak
of the act of Claffes as fo fevere, that it will be needtull to difpenfe with fome
part of it for the peace of the countrey : for thefe things, before the Affemblie,
fundry fpake of me all their pleafure ; yet I contorted myfelf in this, that I
knew I was farr from the calumnie impofed, and that all the wyfe men I
knew profeffed their agreeance with me in the three things named. My un-
acquaintance with obloquie made my Ikin, at this firfl affay, more tender than
needed ; for I had fo oft in print declared my fenfe againft, not Sectaries alone,
hot Malignants alfo, and that fo liberally, in my laft book, that I thought in
reafon I mould have been reputed above all fufpicion of that crime ; yet I was
neceflitate to drink more of that cup than I did truly deferve ; for whoever
'in my Sermon to the Parliament, I was as clear as needed, and in my Report
of our treatie did obtaine the unanimous approbation and thanks of the whole
Affemblie, now in print ; yet I behoved, in fundry voices of the Affemblie,
either [to] quitt the libertie of my mind, or endure the whifperings of my
malignancie to continue. This laft, though to my great grief, I behoved to
choyce. I could not vote to depofe Mr. William Colvill upon his libell : The
man indeed had, in my judgment, been ane evill inftrument in tyme of
the Engagement, yet all was libelled againft him was mere filence in that
Engagement. For that alone I could depofe no man, for the reafons I gave in
the committee of the former Affemblie, when that act did pafs to depofe for
filence alone, if continued in : My mind did never goe along with that act ;
though therefore I knew the whole Affemblie almoft was otherways minded,
and forefaw the miftake of my voyce by fome, yet I behoved to voyce his
fufpenfion to continue, and no farder. As for Mr. Andrew Ramfay, more was
libelled and proven againft him, and all this year he carried himfelf in a can-
kerd untoward way ; yet I told, I could not voyce to depofe a man of fuch age
and parts : fo in that vote I was filent, to the peace of my own mind, though
fome of my friends wrote ftiarp letters to me for it. I had alfo fome conteft
with my neighbours in Mr. William Wilkie's procefs, whom I judged more
hotly perfued than there was caufe. But my fliarpeft conteft was for the
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Principal!, whom I fand fome men to perfew flill without any ground at
all confiderable : contrare to their defigne, I gott him reafonably faire off.
Thefe contefts, and wrak of my friends were very bitter to my mind, and,
joyning with the obloquie in the ear againft me by fome, did fafch my fpirit
fometyme, till I gott my grief and wrong vented and poured out to God ;
for there was no other whom I fand able and willing to help me. It was
a piece of confort to me, that I knew the beft of the land were more (and
on more probable grounds, ) taxed for compliance with Sectaries, than I with
Malignants, whom yet I knew to be innocent ; and that I remembered the
cloud of infamie under which fuper-excellent Mr. Henderfon lay, to my
knowledge, till God and tyme blew it away. I have been ofter and forer
feared for the woe of Chrift to them whom all the world love and fpeak good
of, than I was grieved for any reproachfull fpeeches which fome were be
gun to mutter againft me ; bot this now is our condition, that the cheife
men both in Church, State, and Army, how innocent foever, are whifperit to
favour either fec"laries or malignants.
In our Report, when I had ended what yow read in print,5 my colleague
Mr. Wood, of his own motion, truelie gave a very ample teftimonie to my
Lord Lauderdaill and yow, for your fervice. What was fpoken of yow, all
did take weell ; but fundry were pleafed to miftake what was fpoken of
Lauderdaill, albeit my Lord Caffillis, in his report to the Parliament, had
faid as much of him ; bot fome men fearing a defigne to bring Lauderdaill
in imployment at this very tyme, was not pleafed with any motions in that
kind, otherwayes I had debaited in the grand committee much to have the
fatiffacliou of the Engagers much fairer than it ftands ; and once I had gotten
Mr. Livingftone, with the good lyking of the committee, to a draught near
to Lauderdaill' s mind ; yet thereafter that was cancelled, and the a6l
framed as [it] ftands, to my grief. I wifhed earneftlie, and fo did the Chan
cellor intreat Mr. Robert Douglafs, but out of tyme, that the frameing of
the declaration fhould have been committed. to ane other hand than that it
fell in ; who, how able foever, yet was generallie thought to be among the
moft fevere of the company to the King : but this could not be helped.
Only many claufes we gott altered in the committee ; yet, as it ftands, I
much fear it mail prove a divifion wall betwixt the King and us for ever.
5 " The Report of the Commissioners of the Church," &c. 1649 : Vide supra, p. 85,
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We were alwayes expecting the promifed exprefles from him, and for that
end, fome of us held off all we could, determinations of every thing con
cerned him ; hot while none did appear, and when at lad Will. Murray had
come, but without any letter or inflruction, either private or publick, then
there was no remedie, but the declaration and letter, in the ftyle yow fee
it, and the Act about the Engagers, went out without contradiction ; which,
as I forefaw and foretold in the Hague, puts harder and more peremptor
conditions on the King than there would have given fatiffaction.
We had greatefl debate for ane act of election of minifters. Mr. David
Calderwood was peremptor, that according to the Second Book of Difci
pline, the election mould be given to the Prefbyterie, with power to the
major part of the people to diffent, upon reafon to be judged of by the Pref
byterie. Mr. Rutherfoord and Mr. Wood were as peremptor to put the
power and voyces of election in the body of the people, contradiflinct from
their elderfhip ; but the moft of us was in Mr. Gillefpie's mind, in his Mif-
eellanies, that the direction was the Prefbyteries, the election the Seffions,
and the confent the peoples. Sundry draughts were offered : Mr. Wood's,
moil fludied, was refufed ; Mr. Calderwood's alfo ; Mr. Livingftone's came
near our mind, yet was laid afyde ; mine came nearer the mind of all,
and almofl had pad ; but for avoyding debate, a generall confufed draught
(avoyding indeed the prefent queftion, hot leading us into fo many quef-
tions thereafter as any pleafed to make) did pafs with my confent. But
Mr. David Calderwood and Mr. John Smith did reafon much againfl it in
face of the Affemblie ; where, againfl my mind, the Book of Difcipline was
preffed againfl them, and a double election made, one before tryall, and
another after, as if the election before, and the tryall, by the Second Book of
Difcipline, were given to the people, and that after-tryall, before ordination,
to the Prefbyterie. This I thought was nothing fo, but was filent, being
in my mind contrare to Mr. David in the maine ; though, in this incident
debate of the fenfe of the Book of Difcipline, I was for him. However,
allready we find the defect of our act ; for, as I conceave, and exprefTed it,
fo in my draught, fo much direction in this act is due to Prefbyteries, that
they ought to recommend to the Seflion men to be elected, without prejudice
of their libertie to add whom they think fitt : but I find it the defigne now
of leading brethren, that the Prefbyteries fhall not meddle at all with any
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recommendations, but leave that whollie to any particular buffie man of the
Prefbyterie, to whifper in the ear fome leading perfon of the pariih, to gett
voices to any young man, though never heard in privie exercife, that he, by
defyre of the people to the Prefbyterie, may be put on tryalls for fuch a
church. This I find will be the way of our elections, which I think
unorderly. However, Mr. David Calderwood entered a very fharp pro-
teftatione againft our act, which he required to be regiflrate. This is the
firft proteftation we heard of in our time ; and had it come from any other,
he had not efcaped cenfure.
There was a deligne, at the lad Affemblie, to have gotten the hands of
many minifters to a fupplication for moderating, in fome things, the power of
the Commifiion of the Church ; which was expounded by this AiTemblie truely
to have been ane overthrowing, in favour of the malignant partie, the power
of the Kirk. Great dinn was made for this Supplication, to try what was
the bottome of it, and a very fevere act was made againft the thing ; yet
Mr. Douglafs caried it fo, that no man at all, even the chief contry vers, did
fuffer any thing for it, upon what ground I could never learn to my fatiffac-
tion ; whether, becaufe to Mr. Robert Laurie, the confeffed penner of the
principall Supplication, impunitie was promifed for his ingenuous and early
eonfefiion, and he being fecure, others lefs guiltie could not be gotten punifh-
ed ; or becaufe others, forefeeing what necefiitie there might be for themfelves
to doe more than fupplicate a Generall Affemblie, had no will that any fup
plication whatfoever, efpeciallie being only intended, and never offered, mould
be a ground of Church-cenfure. However, albeit a terrible act was made
againft the thing, contrare to my mind, yet no man was to this day called to
any account for it, nor, as I hear, ever ihall be.
I was much afraid that the fubfcription requyred of the Engagers fould
have made many prime men in our land defperate ; but I am now very glad
that fo many offers themfelves to doe all that is requyred : as I expect there
ihall be very few who mail ftick upon it, fo I wifli from my heart that Lauder-
daill may be moved to doe what I fand Callander and Dumfermling ready
for, when I was there with yow ; and what I faw in the Affemblie, Middle-
ton very near, and others, as Galloway, Lithgow, Ogilvie, Baylie, Innes,
Cochran, Kenmuir, Fleeming, &c. actuallie to offer. I doe not expect now
above three or four perfons in Scotland who mall make fcruple of that fub-
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fcription, which, I hope, may be a means to teach that man (for whom alone
my love makes me afraid,) fome more wifdome. Mr. Harie Guthrie, in his ap-
peall to the Aflemblie, had ufed fome (harp and refletting reafons, for which
they fummoned him to appear, refolveing to have excommunicate him, if they
did not find fubmiflion : bot quickly his fpirit was daunted ; in all humilitie
he appeared, and pafled from his appeall, which obtained him favour not to
be farder proceeded againft. Mr. William Colvill took his fentence of depo-
fition fubmiflively ; Mr. Andrew Ramfay profefled his fuffering : fome would
have been at the prefent preceding of both, as guilty of all the blood, and all
the confequents of the Engagement ; but Mr. Robert Douglafs did quafs thefe
motions, which otherwayes eafily had been carried on.
It was all our minds to have had tranfportations better regulate than
they had been ; for indeed their needlefs frequencie was intollerable, yet Mr.
Robert Douglafs gott all that (hifted till Edinburgh once againe be provided
both of minifters and profeflbiirs. For their Univerlity they moved for Mr.
Rutherfoord, but that was thought abfurd. It feems they would be at Dr.
Colvin, but he will not be given them, as a man demi-malignant. They who
judges fo of that man, would give them Mr. James Wood, or Mr. David
Dickfone ; but in my mind, neither of thefe may be tranfported without
greater hurt to the places they are in than benefit to Edinburgh, if they
could get them. But as yet Edinburgh defyres neither, and on whom they
will fall yet, it does not appear : we fear they trouble us one way or other.
One day I efcaped, to my fenfe, one of the greateil burdens ever was laid
on me. Our committee, after many motions, had refolved for drawing up of
the Storie of the tymes, to propone to the Aflemblie a lite of three or four ;
Mr. James Wood, Mr. John Livingftone, Mr. James Guthrie, and me. My
profeflion made me fecure of all danger, as I thought ; and I minded it no
more : but in the end of the Aflemblie, when it came to be voyced, it ran
wholly betwixt Mr. John Livingftone and me ; and had not the opinion of
my inalignacie diverted fome voyces, I had undoubtedly been opprefled with
that charge. As it was, I efchewed it bot by two three voyces ; but I
blefled the Lord mod heartily for it ; for to me it had all the days of my
life been a burthen intollerable, for many caufes.
The Aflemblie, for the full purgation of the Church, as in former years, fo
in this alfo, hes appointed diverfe committees ; one in Angus, one in Stirling-
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fhyre, one in the Merfe, one in Rofs, one in Argyle, with moil ample power.
On thefe committees the moft zealous men are put, that fome few can
choyce, even of very young men lately admitted miniflers, for depofing of
fuch as Prefbyteries and Synods does fpare. I acknowledge the difmclina-
tion of my mind to fo frequent depofitions of miniflers, and to all courfes
that furthers that, to me fo fevere ane action ; but this is a great part of
my malignacie.
I think at laft we (hall gett a new Pfalter. I have furthered that work
ever with my beft wimes ; but the fcruple now aryfes of it in my mind, the
firft author of the tranflation, Mr. Rous, my good friend, hes complyed with
the Sectaries, and is a member of their republick : how a Pfalter of his
framing, albeit with much variation, (hall be receaved by our Church, I doe
not weell know ; yet it is needfull we mould have one, and a better in hafte
we cannot have. The Aflemblie hes referred it to the Commiffion6 to caufe
print it after the laft revifion, and put it in praclife.
Thefe were the chiefe things of our long and tedious fyve weeks labour ;
only we appointed a letter to be drawne for our brethren of England for their
encouragement. The draught was Mr. James Durham's : it was his firft ;
it did not fo fully pleafe as to pafs, but wa"§" referred to the commiflion to
perfyte. Our brethren of Ireland had fent Mr. John Greig to us, to have
our advyce about their carriage in my Lord of Aird's defection. No pub-
lick advice was given ; but Mr. Livingftone, and Mr. Macklellan were ap
pointed to conferr with him on all his propofitions.
All this while the Parliament did fitt, though ready to ryfe at our firft
down-fitting, more than at our ryfing. Their main caufe of fitting was to fee
what we brought from the King. Thereafter, being to ryfe, conftant reports,
week after week, of Cromwell's purpofe, to bring down the armie on us be
fore it went to Ireland, made them fitt ftill to fee to the defence of the
countrey. To encreafe the leavies, was to put the countrey to a farther
burthen, while the prefent was fo great as could be borne, and caufed dan-
5 This version of the Psalms, by an Act of the Commission of the Assembly 23d Novem
ber 1649, confirmed by an order of the Committee of Estates 8th January 1650, was ac
cordingly authorised for public use throughout this Kingdom after the 1st May 1650 ; and the
same version still continues in use by the Established Church, and the great body of Dissenters
in Scotland. Some further particulars respecting its history will be given in the Appendix.
VOL. III. N
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gerous grumbling every where ; alfo, if ane greater army had been on foot,
the world would not keep them out of England, which we did not intend,
being fair from any agreeance with the King ; fo nothing confiderable was
done or could be done, though the Englifti had come on us. They had
written a letter, with a meflenger, to defire a Treaty with us. Our anfwer
was, if they returned to their duty according to the Covenant, we were readie
to treat with both the Houfes of Parliament ; bot could not acknowledge
the prefent authoritie. This drew from them a printed paper, in reafonable
foft words ; bot clearly enough renounceing all former Treaties and Cove
nants, as broken by our Parliament's invafion, ane advantage which they
would openly make that ufe of, as to have it a breach of all their obligations
to us. To this we made no reply ; for what needs paper-debates at fuch
a tyme ?
While there is nothing to doe in our Parliament, they make themfelves
buflinefs enough. Our Weflland fhyres had, in the rates of monthly main-
'tenance in bygane tymes, been burthened above other fhyres. Oft they
had complained ; bot no redrefs ; they refolved therefore, now or never, to
have it helped. Caflillis, Ceflhock, Sir John Cheiflie, and others, got it fo
contryved, that ane ac~l patted for their eafe, with the burthening of the
Eaftern (hyres. Againft this they entered a proteflation, efpecially the Com-
miffioners of Lothian and Fyfe, and well near the half of the Parliament,
having Burleigh, Balcarras, Libberton, Louthian, to countenance them : with
their proteftation they arofe and left the Houfe. This divifion was very
fafchious and fcandalous : it continued near a fortnight ; bot was at laft
accommodat ; yet fo that the Weflland-men had their defyre. This was not
well fettled till the Burrowes fell out amongfl themfelves in a great heat.
Sundry of the burrowes had been long grudging that Edinburgh mould bear
fo fmall a proportion of the common burden, judging that for their trade and
their wealth, the one-half of the whole burrowes burden might be laid on
them, fifty of a hundreth, whileas they payed but a twenty-feventh part, or
thereaway ; fo in their Convention, at the Queen's ferric, they advanced them
towards a thirty-fixth part, and diminimed Glafgow, St. Andrews, Irvine, and
fome others, a part of their proportion. This the Provoft and Counfell of
Edinburgh took in ane exceeding evill part, and ftormed much at it, yet could
not remeed it. But the mod bitter difference was the laft day of their fitt-
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ing. Caffillis and others, of a long tyme, had a great defyre to have the
annualrent fo low as might be. Many wayes had been projected for the
payment of your Lamfons ; hot all had failed. The money had payed to the
public!; of the eighth that was due in the hundreth, one and a half ; it was
moved to put it to fix in the hundreth, for the time to come, hot during the
troubles to keep it at eight, whereof one and a half to be payed as of before,
and the other half-merk to go to the Lamfons. When this was going, the
whole Burrowes, except two or three obfcure ones, protefled, with a high
paflion, and went out ; the reft fatt ftill, and for no dealling of Warriftone
and Mr. Robert Douglafs, would fo much as delay the clofeing of the Par
liament that night, for they feared, if they had delayed till the morrow, that
the people mould have been fett on them with tumultuarie fupplications ; fo
the Parliament clofed without the Burrowes ; yea, the Committee of Eftates
was made of a quorum, which mould fubfift without them, if they mould per-
lift to abfent themfelves, as they threatened they would. Much high language
paffed on both fydes ; yet fome days thereafter, the Burrowes were made
content to fitt in the Committee of Eftates : But all thefe grudges flicks in
the ftomacks of many, waiting but ane opportunitie to difgorge them.
By William Murray's private dealing, it feemes Louthian was made willing,
with Argyle's confent, to have been fent to the King, hot alone. Argyle
therefore, off hand, moved in Parliament, in the abfence of Warriftone, and
without the privitie of the Chancellor, or any other of his friends of the
Church, to have ane new Addrefs to the King, and carried it without any
oppofition. Bot incontinent many thoughts began to aryfe about the matter :
fome began to be jealous of Argyle, that he was inclyning to a new
trinketting with the King by himfelfe ; others, that the manner of his pro
ceeding was to marr the matter of purpofe. However, the rafhnefs of that
unrype motion did no good : Louthian's employment was ftiifted : All it
ended in, was a new letter to be carried by a gentleman ; and, in the laft day,
he was voyced to be Libbertoun7 ; who finding the letter, drawne by Sir John
Cheiflie, though much fmoother than the Church's drawn by Mr. James
Wood, yet to be fo hafk, and the inftruclions fo fcabrous, that there was no
7 The " Act appointing Mr. George Winrame of Libbertoun one of the Senators of the
Colledge of Justice to repaire to the King's Majestic/' &c. was passed on the 7th August 1649.
The letter of the Committee of Estates, is dated 1 2th September, and with his Instructions,
will be found in the Acts of Parl. vol. vi. p. 506.
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hope of doeing any good with the King thereby, has to this day fhifted to
goe for all his call. Yet I think it not unlyke he may be moved to goe now
on the great change of the Irifti affaires. His Majeftie's chiefe hope was
Ireland ; and indeed it looked once prettie fair for him. Ormond had taken
in all the South but Dublin, which he had ftraitly befieged. Cromwell, for
all his diligence, had delayed very long to come over. My Lord of Airds, in
a very fubtill falfe way, had put himfelfe in the government of Ulfter. Sir
Robert Stewart and George Monroe had joyned with him, and laid fiedge
to the Derrie. If Derrie and Dublin had been gott, there was no more
adoe, bot to have fent for the King, and come over with him, firfl to Scotland,
and then to England : This was the King's great fnare all this yeare, to keep
him off ane agreeance with us. But behold how foon all this hope evanim-
ed ; Jones, having gotten fome fupply of men from England, makes an erup
tion on Ormond's camp fo profperoufly, that he well neer raifed the fiege.
However, he encourages Cromwell, without more delay, to come over, fhew-
•ing Ormond, for all his great force, fo eafie to be dealt with. Mackart, in the
meantyme, joyned with Sir Charles Cutts [Coote], and coming towards the
Derrie, made all our befiegers gett away, becaufe the minifters before had
preached fo much againft Aird's treacherie, that few of the people had heart
or hand to ferve him, but generally all deferted him ; wherefore he and his
party, as it were by Ormond's command, began to threaten the minifters,
which made them altogether leave the countrey, and come over to us. In
the meantyme, Cromwell, in the South, hes put Ormond, without ftroke
of fword, to his garifons, and keeps Prince Rupert with his (hips in Kinfail.
Mackart, with his army, plunders at his pleafure in the North ; and fhortly
it is expected Cromwell (hall be clear mailer of all Ireland, as he is of Eng
land, and then have at the third poor broken Kingdome, more eafy than any
of the other to be fwallowed down.
This being our cafe, lyklie our Committee of Eflates may hafte Lib-
bertoun to the King, to fee if, when the rotten reed of Ireland is broken,
he will think better of our propofitions than he did before ; fo much the
more as the Prefbyterians in England, by a very pithie fupplication, which
they fent to me, and I to our State, doe prefs the fame point. If either we
neglect to feek him, or he continue to refufe our conditions, the mine of both
feems to be near ; and though he were joyned with us in our terms, yet he
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hes delayed fo long, that our difficulties and his would be infuperable hot by
the hand of God. Allwayes, we would fuffer all hardfhips with the greater
comfort, that he and we were conjoyned in God againft the common enemie
of God, of his houfe, and our countrey. If we make ane new application,
who ever hinders the King to condefcend to any terms we ihall or can pro
pone, I mall conclude them in my heart, mod unhappie, and either very
malicious or very foolifh men. My lad to Libbertoun, yow have here the
double of it ; and to my friend at London. In your next, let me know
where the Duke, Callander, Seaforth, Sinclair, James Grahame are ; but
above all, what Lauderdaill minds [to do.] What is become of Willoughby,
Mafley, Bunch ? Alfo try to your power if there be any fufpicion of Cap-
taine Titus's complyance, either with Sectaries or Malignants : it concerns
me to know his quickly, if yow can learn. If your intelligence to Caffillis
and our State be fo rare as it is to me, it will be little worth.
In my laft, I wrote for Bochartus, and Petavius's two volumes De Dodlrina
Temporum, fail not to fend them ; alfo all Voetius and Marefius's late things.
I pray yow fend what can be had of Chronologic that is worth ; Apollonius
or Morus will informe : we have Scaliger, Calvitius, Lanfbergius. Hafte
to us Petavius : I purpofe to teach fome of it this year ; and to affift me,
write to me what yow know of Morus, and what is become of Spanheim
and Salmafius's pieces for the King. When ye write to me ye ufe not to look
on my letters, fo yow forgett to anfwer fundry things I require : help this :
mould ye not alwayes fend to us Mercurius Gallo-Belgicus. Try, by
Mynheer William, (to whom recommend me heartily,) the ilate of the peace
of Germanic, and of Spain with France ; and if any hopes from Denmark
or Swedden for our King. I wifti we had fome treatifes of the lawfull-
nefs of confederations, as of yours with the French and Swedifh, for it's
lyke we muft preach againft the King's taking any help, either of Papifts
or Lutherans, or any Malignants : if there be any Latine or French books of
that fubjecT;, let me have them. My beft affections to your every way good
wyfe. I hope my next may be to your nurfe and fon. Read and clofe what
I write to Voetius and Mr. Walter. If there be no danger in Morus for
Ameraut's tenets, if he and Apollonius, by your means, can be made
to agree weell on it, I hope he may doe much good : while I know by yow
the man's temper, I wald not know him.
102 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1649.
FOE CAPTAINS TITUS.*
SIR,
MASTER TROTTER fent to me what ye wrote to him Auguil 28th, Sep
tember 3d. It came this afternoon to my hands : I was glad of it. I think
we will now quickly fend our letters with ane honed bearer. All with us
is in a deep quietnefs and filence. It feems Ireland is loft ; I think we fhall
be next tryed. James Grahame cannot come hither for the King's good :
If he think to have any fervice of us without If s and And's, he muft come
up, and that (hortly, to our demands ; which if he doe, he may have us yet to
be his fervants againft all his enemies, without exception, whatever it fhall
coft us. Whatever ye fend to John Trotter it will come fafe, though fome-
times late to me. The Lord be with yow, and all your friends there.
September 7th [1649.] Yours.
«
FOR MY LORD LiBBERTouN.9
MY LORD,
WHAT yow and my Lord Warriftone fent to me, on Monday the 3d, came
not to me till Fryday the 7th in the afternoon, becaufe given to a cadger ;
but if it had been to a barker, or any merchant, it might have come fair
fooner. What I anfwer ye will read and clofe. I marvell ye are fo long
in fending your letters. It feems ye will flay till Cromwell perfyte his Irifh
conqueft; which I think will not take long tyme, and then I expe6l him
or his deputes in the heart of Scotland. Who thinks not fo, or is not feared
for this, I muft have leave to fufpe6t much either his prudencie or his
8 Captain afterwards Colonel Silas Titus, well known as the author, under the assumed name
of William Allen, in 1657, of the celebrated tract, " Killing noe Murder, briefly discourst in
three Questions,1" which is said to have occasioned so much alarm to Cromwell during the
later period of his life.
9 George Winrame of Libberton, one of the Commissioners sent by the Estates of Scotland
to Charles the Second, at the Hague. After his return from Holland, he had been appointed
a Senator of the College of Justice, and was admitted 22d June 1649. He was employed on
a similar mission to the King, in September, (vide p. 99 ;) and again at Breda, in March 1650.
He was present at the battle of D unbar, 3d September, 1650, where he was so severely
wounded that he died within a few days.
1649. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 103
honeilie. In our prefent condition of heart divifion, for all our quietnefs,
and fubfcriptions to any thing ye will, I think him blind and foolifh who
fees not our defence againft the poorefl invader is inconliderable. I
would blefs the man that could mew the poffibilitie of any reall reunion
of our nation, for their own defence againft any common enemie : hot the
grounds of union, as matters now ftands, are to me maine dreams. My
hopes are in God only ; bot for any help in man, not only our King and
royaltie, bot religion, libertie, and all that's dear, feem to me weell near
loft, without recoverie, for a long tyme. O, if my fears were vain !
Yours,
September 7th [1649.] [R. BAILLIE.]
POSTSCRIPT.
If yow have any thing to fay to Inchequein or Ormond, I think Sir Patrick
Weems, who is in Edinburgh, could agent it better than any I know. I
think both would [mould] be tryed, if they would renounce their Popifh aflb-
ciations, and be inftrumentall to bring in all their Proteftant friends to our
Covenant. Why doe yow fend none to lye1 for yow at the Court of Sweden ?
Hafte fome away to the King, if it were bot to underftand what he is doe-
ing. Yow our watchmen mould not fleep, though all the land be in a deep
flumber, when a fearfull ftorme, as I take it, is fo imminent from the Sec
taries to our Church and Kingdome and lives of fome who mind to be
honeft againft them, which I believe all mind not to be.
CLARISSIMO ET DOCTISSIMO VIRO D. GISBERTO VOETIO, SACR.E THEOLOGIZE
IN ACADEMIA ULTRAJECTINA PROFESSORI.
REVERENDISSIME VIR,
Ex literis dilecli fratris Walteri Bovii noftratis, vicini tui, nuper cognovi
ftudium curamque tuam ut meus contra Doctorem Bramblium jam Belgice
loquentem libellus tranfferretur etiam Belgice, et de novo apud vos typis
mandaretur. Agnofco fraternum officium, et multum hoc etiam nomine me tibi
debere profiteer, nee leviter devinclum probis illis piifque viris qui te au6lore
1 Here to lye evidently signifies to reside.
104 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1649.
id fibi oneris imponere voluerunt, lit opufculi mei cum tranflationem turn
editionem, baud parva fua nullus dubito cum moleftia, procurarent. Quam
vellem mihi daretur aliquando occafio exprimendi vel tibi vel ipfis partem
faltem aliquam gratiarum quas in praefentia multas animo meo vobis con-
ceptas fentio. Docebit, fi voles, D. Bovius ex meis ad D. Spangium literis
quis fit rerum hodie noftrarum flatus, et quam ingens nobis imminere videatur
tempeftas, qua a Malignantibus quos vocamus, fi pergat Rex peflimis ipforum
confiliis utramque fuam prout hac~lenus aurem praebere, qua a Seelariis,
quorum res mirabili adhuc etiam in Hibernia, non Anglia tantum, fucceflu
fluunt. Utraque haec faclio pari in nos odio aefluat, et ab utraque extrema
omnia metuimus. Unica nobis in Jehova fpes eft. Ut multum egemus, ita
valde defideramus tranfmarinorum fratrum in feriis ad Deum pro nobis preci-
bus perfeverentiam. Ab initio ufque noftrorum motuum tot in nos nof-
tramque caufam a tua pietate finceriflimae charitatis fpecimina comperimus, ut
fideliorem nobis in rebus quantumlibet ar6lis operam ab exterorum Theo-
logorum ullo non polliceamur. Quare unice nobis in votis eft ut velit
Dominus ad extremam fene6lam te incolumem fervare, ut in domo Dei
infignis ilia tua lux diu fulgeat ad inultos, quod facis quotidie, illuftrandos, et
ad diflipandos non eos tantum errorum fumos quibus Pontificii, Arminiani
et Sociniani veftras pro viribus ecclefias offufcare conantur, fed illas etiam
tenebras quibus Independentes, Anabaptiftae, Chiliaftae, Antinomiani, csete-
raque Seclariorum turba noftrae Britanniae coelum maximo jam nifu obfcurare
moliuntur. Hoc voto fupplex tuo nomine Deum veneratur
Addictim'mus tibi Frater,
ROBERTUS BAL.EUS.
Plurimum falvere cupio doclifiimum collegam tuum D. Dematium, cujus
magnam erga me humanitatem licet, in acuti morbi fervore, non fas eft obli-
vifci me. Salvere quoque peropto heroinam illam veftram Annam Marianv
quam quod non falutaverim dum tecum efTem perfaepe dolui.
Glafguae, idibus Septemb. CIO.IOC.XLIX.
1 Anna Maria a Schurmann. This learned lady, whom Baillie regrets not having visited
when in Holland, had obtained very high reputation by the publication in 1648 of a volume
of Letters and Poems : " Opuscula Hebraea, Graeca, Latina, Gallica ; prosaica et metrica,"
edited by Frederick Spanheim, and republished in 1650, and again in 1652. She was a native
of Cologne, but was then residing at Utrecht. She died in the year 1678.
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MR. ROBERT BLAIR TO MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
IF it had been the Lord's will, I wim we had mett for many caufes. I
hardly think that Dr. Strang can be in any hazard for what was before
toffed and fettled by the authoritie of the Afiemblie, except there be fome
new matter; and if foe, let him anfwer for it, and doe not ye, by inter-
medlihg in that kind, defyle your confcience and deftroy your name, which
already fuffers not a little. Your folitarie vote concerning the two miflead-
ers2 of that linfull Engagement, with wings flees abroad, to my no fmall
grief: I think Lauderdaill and Middletone, and many of that rank, no
thing fo culpable ; and I affure yow, had I been there, I would have cor-
diallie caften them out. They have been more mftrumentall to advance that
wicked work, both by their lilence and fpeaking, than fuch as I have now
mentioned. Get yow to your book and your work, and meddle not unhap-
pilie to your prejudice. The Spirit of truth and grace reft upon yow : So
heartily prays,
Your loving Brother,
St. Andrewes, 29th July 1650. R. BLAIR.
LETTER FROM MR. ROBERT BAILLIE, UNDER HIS ASSUMED NAME.3
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
THE letters of our friends, thir to Mr. Douglafs and to Mr. Jamifone, alfo
2 Colvill and Ramsay : Vide supra p. 92. — As Baillie, in his MS. has inserted scarcely
any letters addressed to himself, it is singular he should have made this one, containing
some sharp but not unfriendly advice, an exception. It is to be regretted that his own letters
for twelve months at this period should not be preserved.
3 This letter has no address. The Editor in 1775 supposed it " to be wrote to Mr. Chris
topher Love, beheaded on Tower-hill for corresponding with Argyle and Mr. Baillie." Love
was an eminent Presbyterian divine, and was one of the London Ministers who signed the
Declaration against the execution of Charles the First. It appears from Love's Trial, that a
material part of the evidence rested upon a letter he was said to have received from Col. Barn-
field, which enclosed others from the Earls of Argyle. Loudoun, &c. and one from " Mr. Bailey,
VOL. in. O
LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1650.
two to the Generall Affemblie, the one of ane old date, the other fmce the
defeat at Dunbar,4 came but latelie to our hands. For feare of your hazard
then, we thought it expedient to communicat them but to a few. At firft
were called together, the Lord Chancellour, the Marquifs of Argyle, the
Earles of Caflillis and Louthian, with Mr. Douglafs, Mr. Blair, Mr. Jami-
fone, and Mr. Wood. One and all were very much refrelhed and encou
raged by the two publick mod gracious and moft feafonable letters. The
anfwer to them was remitted to the nixt meeting of the Commiflion of the
Church the lad of this moneth, where we purpofe to make more publick ufe
of thefe, if we (hall then find [it] ftand with your fafety. In the mean time,
Mr. Jamifone [t. e. Mr. Baillie] was appoynted to give yow fome ftiort ac-
compt of affaires here ; which be pleafed to receave.
This whole eight days before the defeat at Dunbar, the Lord had foe
difpofed, that, to the apprehenfion of moft in both armies, a vi&orie feemed
to inclyne to our fide. When, contrary to all appearance, the Lord, by our
•owne negligence, had overthrown us, we have ftill lyen under that ftroke,
not fo much by any active profecution of the enemie, as by the Lord's
hand now upon us, our divifions. A ftrong partie in the North, whom we
have excluded from our armie for the late Engageing, did putt theirfelves in
armes without publick order : It coft us fome time before we could quyet
them. That danger was fcarce over, when ane other partie in the Weft,
whom we have permitted to ryfe, and from whom we expected readie and
happie fervice againft the enemie, fell in wayes of their owne, to our great
and long difturbance ; which we fuppofe Cromwell long before this has caufed
print there. Unto it very myld anfwers were given, both by Church and
State, as yow will read here in the copies fubjoyned : A while, notwith-
ftanding, they perfued in their diverfe way ; the enemie fell on, and putt them
to a totall routt, whereby he inlarged his quarters now where he pleafes
in Scotland ;" but these letters had no other address than a large L on the back ; and when
brought to him by one of the witnesses for perusal, they had been opened. Love, moreover,
most solemnly denied, both at his Trial and Execution, his having had any correspondi-ncr
whatever, either " with the King, the Church, or Stale, or any particular person in Scotland,"
since the War began between the two nations. But for such alleged conspiracy to assist tin-
Scotish army in advancing Charles the Second to the Throne of England, Love was con
demned, and beheaded on Tower-hill, 22d August 1651.
4 On the 3d of September 1650.
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be-fouth Forth. However our griefe and fhame for this defeat be great,
yet the lofs of men was much within a hundred, and the prifoners are not
foe many ; and among neither, any man of note, but (who is now prifoner)
Collonell Kerr. Strachan indeed, the chief author of all this mifchieffe, had
before foullie betrayed his truft, and fince is gone unto the enemie.
Thefe mifchieffes have laid us now lower in the dull before the Lord.
On Sunday nixt, the 22d of December, we have a generall humiliation,
moft for contempt of the gofpell, the fountaine of all our plagues. On
Thurfday thereafter, the 26th, we have another, for the finnes of the King's
familie, old and late, which we feare may have influence in the Lord's con-
troverfie with us ; yet for all this, we have not caften away our hope and
confidence in the Lord ; but with more vigour than ever we purpofe, with
all poffible fpeed, to make ufe of all the remainder of our forces. The Par
liament the other week did call together the Commiflion of the Church, to
be refolved, how farre it was lawfull to imploy, in this cafe of extreme
neceflitie, thefe who, for fometime, and while we had choife of men, were
excluded from the fervice. The unanimous anfwer be them prefent yow
have here fubjoyned. By the bleffing of God this may be a greater begin
ning of union among ourfelves, and of a more happie acting againft the ene
mie, than formerlie. There is indeed fome among us againft the imploying
of thefe who before were excluded ; but we hope that in a little tyme this
mall change ; fo much the more, as in very few, in whom it is greateft, there
yet appeares the leaft inclination to comply with the enemie. And to guard
the better againft this evill, the Church, the other day, did paffe the fubfe-
quent A61, which the Parliament is about to confirme, with a fevere civill
cenfure againft all tranfgreflbrs.
After our forefaid applications to God on the 22d and 26th of this inftant,
we have appointed to Crowne our King, the 1ft of January, at Scoone,
the ordinarie place of our old Coronations ; and thereafter, fo foon as we
are able, to march, with the ftrength we can make, under the conduct of
our King, with all our nobilitie and gentrie to Stirling ; where it will be
refolved, whether to goe with the body of our army to England, leaving
fuch a partie here as to keep and guard the pafles of Forth againft the
enemie ; or, with the bodie [of our army], to attend Cromwell here, and to
fend Mafley to England with fome thoufands of horfe and dragoons. To
10g LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1650.
the former the mod part inclynes ; but yow, with the next, fliall be acquainted
with our conclufions. But, in the mean tune, the neceffitie is apparent for
the extraordinarie diligence of our friends there to procure to us their pof-
iible aflidance in this our foe neceflare undertaking for the common fafetie.
The particular way we are thinking on, I leave to ane other letter, fent
herewith, and to the indru&ions given to the bearer, C. B.,s whom we have
found a faithfull, wife, and diligent agent for your defyres to us, and whom
we hope (hall be no lefs fuch for our defyres to yow. We have great need
of your earned interceflion with the Lord of Hods for his powerfull concur
rence with us in this our great extreamitie. Expecting this duetie of love
from yow and our dear Brethren, I add but this one word, that the brethren
there would be carefull, as we have been, and purpofe dill to be, to lay, at
this their new beginning, fuch foundations for their Annie and Parliament,
that the leading men in both may be firme and zealous to preferve the Cove
nant, and our former principles, entire without violation : Alfo, if it ftiall feem
good in the Lord's eyes to blefle our mutuall endeavours, that our friends
there may be zealouflie confcientious, that what progrefs was made in the
Aflemblie of Divines for the reformation of religion be not lod, hot procured
untill a finall conclusion and all be ratified by King and Parliament. I red,
Your Brother and Servant in the Lord,
JAMISONE.
Perth, Fryday, December 20th 1650.
FOR MR. DAVID DICKSONE.
I SENT to my Lord Argyle and yow the two Remondrances, in my judge
ment very infolent and fcandalous pieces. If yow connive with them, and
permitt two or three bold men to carry the Commiffion of the Church to
allow any fuch wryte, I think yow confent to put upon our Church the foulled
blot that ever yet it got : This will be a fore tryall to yow : if either yow fide
with, or be a conniver at the wayes of the Remondranters, it will be to me a
great griefe, a great difappointment : had I either been on the Commiffion of
* Probably Col. Bamfield, who appears from Mr. Christopher Love's Trial, to have been
employed at this time in such negociations.
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the Church, or been written for by any at Stirling, or, on the Commifiion-
ers generall letter to our Prelbyterie, I had been defyred by our Prefbyterie
to ryde, and not through Mr. Patrick's comeing been exprefflie (hifted, I would
have certainly come to the Commifiion of the Church, and told freely my
mind of thefe injurious inveclives, invented only for divifion, and increafing
of our prefent miferies. I hope the Lord will aflift yow to help our Church,
our King, and State, when, by the defignes of the Devill, and, at beft, the
imprudence of fome men and fimplicitie of others, all are lyke to be over-
throwne with our owne hands : The hands of lurking Joabs will in time be dif-
covered. This much to yow to whom I ufe to open my moft fecret thoughts.
A POSTSCRIPT TO MR. D. D.'s LETTER.
IF my Lord Argyle at this ftrait mould defert the King, and verifie the
too common furmifes of many, which I truft {hall be found moft falfe, and
fhortly fhall be refuted by his deeds, I think, and many more with me of the
beft I fpeak with, that it would be a fearfull finne in him, which God will re
venge. We are not without our fears that the King's flight has been pro
cured by Hamiltone's greateft friends, exprefflie for the King's ruyne. But
if Argyle fhould have any hand with the Remonftrants for the fame end,
his finne would be no lefs : That man my heart has loved till now ; I hope
he (hall give me caufe to continue."
Your Brother,
Glafgow, November 18th [1650.] R. B.
FOR MR. ROBERT DOUGLASS.
HOWSOEVER the want of a call, either from the Commifiion or our Prefby
terie, keeps me from the Commiflion at this tyme, yet I am bold to tell yow
my mind of the Weftern Remonftrance, that in my fenfe it is a very fcan-
dalous piece, and exceedingly injurious both to the King and State ; which,
if our Kirk fliould countenance, would bring exceeding great griefe to the
hearts of many, I am fure to the heart of one. I have knowne yow keep the
6 Baillie's fears were unfounded,, as the Marquis of Argyle was the person who crowned
Charles the Second at Scone.
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Commiflion from going the way of fome peremptorie men ; howfoever I have
been grieved, at other times, to fee yow let things goe with them which I fup-
pofed was contrare to your mind. If at this time yow fuffer yourfelf to be
drawne over or to connive at fuch an infolent paffage, I think you will con
tribute to give our Kirk and State a wound which in hafte will not be gotten
remedied. It is an eafe to me to have fignified fo much of my mind to yow,
whom I know by God's help to be able enough to doe good yet in this
matter. If it goe further I will prepare myfelfe, as God pleafes, for fuffer-
ing, but withall to give the world ane accompt of my diffent from the Re-
monflrants wrytes and wayes. The Lord be with yow.
Glafgow, November 18th [1650.]
FOR SCOUT, MR. BUCHAN. [1650.]
• IF great words would putt our State from crowning the King at this time
and make them fubmitt to the commands of our Remonftranters, they may :
If they will keep promife to the King, and tell us our duety, with any vigo
rous authoritie, I doubt not of our fubmitting in a fhort time to all their
jufl commands.
FOR MR. D. DICKSON, AND MR. W. SPANG.'
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
I SENT the inclofed to yow by Mr. Robert Ramfay, thinking yow (hould
have been at the meetings of Stirling and Perth, whither I was refolved not
to goe, notwithstanding of many earned intreaties to the contrare ; yet, after
the diflblving of the meeting at Stirling, I followed to Perth, upon fundry
letters from Stirling to me for that effect. Your abfence wes not weell taken
by many ; though I verily think your prefence would not have had more
influence on the Remonftrants than that of Mr. Douglafs, Blair, Cant,
Rutherfoord, Durham, Wood, and others, who could in nothing prevaill
7 This letter was at first designed for Mr. David Dickson, but, as we learn from the letter
itaelf, it was enlarged and sent to Spang.
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with them. Of the whole matter, as it comes in my mind, I will give yow
a fimple accompt, but to yourfelf alone, and after to the fyre ; for, as in all
the meetings I was filent, and a meer fpectator, except one forenoon,
wherein in fome things I declared my mind, fo I would deiire to medle
als little as may be with this unhappie ftrife.
After the woefull rout at Dunbar, in the firft meeting at Stirling, it wes
openly and vehemently preffed to have David Leflie laid aiide, as long be
fore wes defigned, but covertly, by the chiefe purgers of the tymes. The
man himfelfe did als much preffe as any to have libertie to demitt his charge,
being covered with fhame and difcouragement for his late unhappinefs, and
irritate with Mr. James Guthrie's public! inve Rives againft him from the
pulpit. The mofl of the Committee of Eftates, and Commiffion of the Kirk,
would have been content to let him goe ; but finding no man tolerablie able
to fupply his place, and the greateft part of the remaining officers of horfe and
foot peremptor to lay downe, if he continued not ; and after all tryalls, find
ing no mal-adminiftration on him to count of, but the removeall of the
Annie from the hill the night before the rowt, which yet wes a confequence
of the Committee's order, contrare to his mind, to flop the enemies retreat,
and for that end to ftorme Brockfmouth Houfe fo foone as poffible ; on thefe
confiderations, the State, unanimoufly, did with all earneftnefs intreat him to
keep ftill his charge. Againft this order, my Lord Warriftone, and, as I
fuppofe, Sir John Cheiflie, did enter their diffent ; I am fure Mr. James
Guthrie did his, at which, as a great impertinencie, many [were] offended.
Colonell Strachan did offer to lay downe his charge, being unwilling more
to be commanded be David Leflie. Some more inclyned to doe foe ; but
all were quieted by this expedient.
Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, by his diligence with fome Brethren of the Weft,
had procured a meeting, at Kilmarnock, of fome chiefe gentlemen and
minifters of the fheriffdomes of Ayr, Clydefdale, Barenfrew, and Gallo
way, where he perfuaded them, for the prefent neceffitie, to raife a flrength
of horfe and dragoones, as they had defigned in their Aflbciation, but
farr above the proportion of any bygane leavie. This conclufion obtained,
he perfuaded next to put them all under the command of four colonells,
the lyklieft men to act fpeedilie againft the enemie, Ker, Strachan,
Robin Racket, and Sir Robert Adaire. Thev made their account to make
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up the old broken regiments of thefe four to the number of near four
thoufand, befyde volunteers. With this voluntarie offer, Mr. Patrick
(iillefpie, Sir George Maxwell, and Glanderftone, rode to Stirling. How
ever many did imell, and feare the defigne of a divifione, yet the offer wes
fo fair, and promifes of prefent acting fo great, that eafily, even by the
Chancellor and Mr. Robert Douglafs's procurement, they obtained ane Act
of State for all their defyres. By this they flopped all mens mouths, and
forced them of Barenfrew and Carrick to joyne with them. The com
mittee of Barenfrew feeing the vaft expence of the enterpryfe, (for the very
firfl outreek would amount to five hundred thoufand pounds,8 and the daily
charge to four or five thoufand pounds,9 upon the (hyres forefaid,) were gene
rally averfe from the motion. My Lord Cafiillis keeped off Carrick ; Gallo
way alfo did difrelifli the matter ; but the committee of Clydefdale, confiding
of a few mean perfones, who were totallie led by Mr. Patrick and Sir John
Cheiflie, being very forward ; the committee of Kyle and Cunynghame
being perfuaded by Mr. John Nevay, Mr. Gabriell Maxwell, and a few
more minifters, the Act of State fuperveening, did quaflie all farder oppofi-
tion. All of us in pulpit, myfelf alfmuch as others, did promove the work.
In a very fliort tyme three thoufand five hundred horfe are gotten to
gether, with hopes, by volunteers, to make them above five thoufand.
We were all in expectation of ready and happy acting, by infalls on the
enemies quarters, but behold how all our hopes were foone moft miferablie
blafted ! Colonell Strachan his fcruples were not only about David Leflie's
command ; for in this his friends had procured him ample enough fatiffac-
tion, getting afTurance, from the Committee of State, that David Leflie
ihould gladly permitt the forces of the Weft to act apart, and never trouble
them with any of his orders; but Strachan's fcruples went much higher.
Since the amendment of his once very leud life, he inclyned much in
opinion towards the Sectaries ; and having joyned with Cromwell at Pref-
ton againfl the Engagers, had continued with them to the King's death.
At that tyme, by Mr. Blair and our CommifTioners at London, he was
fomewhat altered ; yet not fo farre as to joyne with us in Covenant, till, by
the great labours of Mr. James Guthrie and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, his doubts
were fo fair fatiffied or fmothered, that he \vas brought to content the Com-
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miflion of the Church for that, and diverfe other fcandals againfl him : yet
it feems that importunitie hes made him profefle large als much complyance
with us as his heart did yield to. His eminent fervice, firft againfl Plufcar-
die, and then againfl James Grahame, got him the Church's extraordinarie
favour, to be helped with one hundred thoufand merks out of their purfes,
for the mounting him a regiment ; the greatefl offering which ever our
churchmen made at one tyme. This did not a little lift his fpirit, and gett
him the farr befl regiment in the armie : with the Weflern recruite, it became
flronger than any two regiments in the kingdome. At this tyme many of
his old doubts revives upon him ; which, by the knaverie of his Capt.-Lieu-
tenant Govane, and frequent mefTages of his late friends, Cromwell and
thefe about him, became fo high, that though extraordinarie paines were
taken upon him, yet he would receave no fatiffaction, fo farr as to act any
thing againfl the enemie, except there might be a treatie. And it did appear
therein, that Cromwell wes not willing to retire, upon our aflureance not to
molefl England on the King's quarrell, whom he profeffed to be fo farr fallen
from all his right to England, that, for his wrongs to Scotland, he aught at
leafl to be banifhed the land, or made ane perpetuall prifoner.
Strachan's axiome and debates did put the whole armie and committee of
the Wefl in fuch confufion and difcouragement that all acting againfl the
enemie was made impoflible. Bot the matter flood not at this poynt. In our
debates, at the time of the Engagement, our publick profeffions were, of our
clearnefs to fight againft the Englifh fectaries, for vindication of the Covenant,
and the King's jufl rights, on the Parliament's grant to us of fotnefew defyres.
MefTrs. James Guthrie and John Livingflone their whifperings a little in the
eare to the contrare, were not then audible : It wes flrange to me thereafter,
when I heard Wariflone and Mr. Guthrie fpeak it out, that it would take
a long debate to cleare from the Covenant the lawfullnefs of ane offenfive
warre againfl Cromwell and his partie ; yet in a fhort tyme it appeared, that
the quarrell of the King or Covenant or any quarrell tending to warre with
the Englifh, became to diverfe more questionable than it wont to be.
Whether a fear of the troubles of warre, or defpaire of conqueifing the King
to the public!; or their owne perfonall interefts, or a defyre to keep the
government not only in the forme but in the hands it wes in, or truely
judgement of mind, did draw men to thofe changes of former profefl princi-
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pies, I cannot fay ; only a great deale of zeale wes begun to be practifed
againft all who did fmell in any excefle of favour towards the King. What
drift acts of Kirk and State were made againft malignancie ? What numbers
were caft out of their charges both in the church, ftate, and armie ? What
barrs were putt to their readmitting? Yow know too much pleading wes
for the juftice of beheading the King ; what ever fault was in the actors.
Mr. Guthrie and Mr. Gillefpie's debates were pafiionate againft the proclaim
ing of the King, till his qualification for government had firft been tryed and
allowed. You may remember the labour wes taken to hinder the addrefles
to the King ; and how lyke it was to have prevailed, had not the reafon,
authentic, and diligence of Argyle, overfwayed it ; and, for all that could be
faid, the voteing of Mefirs. Guthrie, Gillefpie, Hutchefone, and Durham
that no commiffioner mould be fent till a change in the King mould appeare :
and when it was carried to fend commiilioners, I will not forget the great
ftudie of fome to make their inftructions fo rigid, that few had any hope the
King would ever affent to them ; and when (above hope) the King had yield
ed to all the Commiflioners had requyred, the induftrie of thefe fame men to
gett new inftructions pofted away to Holland, which, if they had come thither
before the King's imbarking, were expected by all mould have ruyned the
Treatie. Yet when, by the extraordinare favour of God, the King wes
brought in Scotland, to doe what either Kirk or State had requyred ; and,
upon this agreeance, the noyfe of Cromwell's march towards us wes growne
loud, Sir John Cheiflie, Hoptone, and Swintone, keeped off, by their de
bates in Parliament, the raifeing of our armie fo long, that we were near fur-
pryfed ; and when our armie wes gotten together at Leith, the fame men
helped, by their continuall crofie debates, to keep all in confufion ; their
ftrange affronting of the King at Leith ; the putting of him to a new declar
ation ; and, when he ftucke but at fome hard expreffions concerning the
perfons of his Father and Mother, their procuring from the Kirk and State
that terrible Act of difclaiming his intereft, of the 13th of Auguft ; that fame
night, without the Kirk's knowledge, printed it, and fent to Cromwell with
a trumpet : All thefe things bred jealoufies in the obfervers, what the in
tentions of fome men might be ; yet all wes difiembled, till after the defeat
at Dunbar thefe intentions brack out in their actions.
Soe foone as they faw it probable that they were to have a force to be
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ruled by themfelves alone, it became their work to have that armie fo
great, and the other at Stirling fo fmall, as they were able. Then, in thefe
meetings with Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, where Sir John Cheiflie and fome
three of our burgefles did meet oft and long, propofitions of a ftrange
and high nature were in hand, as Robert Lockhart, who fometymes wes pre-
fent, did fhow to Argyle and others. The firft vent of their motions wes at
the Provinciall [Synod] in Glafgow, where Mr. Patrick, Mr. G., Mr. Hut-
chefone, Ker, Strachan and others, with much night-wakeing, did bring
forth that ftrange Remonftrance of the fynod, where Mr. Patrick obtaining
a Committee to confider the finnes procuring the wrath of God on the
land, did put fuch men on it as he lyked beft, and by them the frameing
of the draught was put upon himfelfe, who quickly begatt that prettie piece
which I fent you. It doubtlefs had been the fubject of more difcourfe, had
it not been drowned in the fubfequent more abfurd one [by] the fame hand, in
name of the Armie ; for at the very firft, it fell on the face of the Generall
Affemblie and Parliament, and condemns both for their firft treating with the
King, and for the renewing of it in a fecond addrefTe ; but moft for clofeing
of it without evidence of his reall change. Then thefe moft bitter invectives
againft the State, for which Mr. Patrick had ufed foe high language with yow
and Mr. Douglafs, in face of the commiflion, at Leith, are all brought in,
with large additions to any thing was then heard. I have oft regrated of late
to fee the Judicatories of the Church foe eafily ledd to whatever fome few of
our bufie men defigned, but never more than in the particular in hand. I
am fure the moft of that wryte wes without the knowledge of the moft, and
againft the fence of many, of the Brethren ; yet all wes voted, nemine con-
tradicente, except honeft Mr. William RufTell, Mr. Robert Ramfay, and Mr.
John Bell, fpoke a little to fome words, but on the matter let all goe. Fearing
what was in hand, 1 could fpeak little. The night before I expected nothing
more mould have been prefled but a keeping out Engagers from the armie : I
loved not to appear in contradiction to fome violent men ; yet my heart be
ing againft their conclufion, I wes, after much foliciting and prayer, brought
to a neceffitie of contradicting, and had thought on fome reafons for that
poynt to have been mainly proponed for my diffent ; although I doubt not
but my impatience and canker had broken out, if I had heard, which I never
dreamed of, their invectives againft the Treaties ; but the Lord, in a very fen-
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fible way to me, caryed it foe, that neither the Synod wes troubled with me,
nor the peace of my mind by them. I once inclyned to abfent myfelfe, and
had indeed gone out, but behooved to return, not daring to take that courfe.
But behold, when I was ready to goe to the Synod at that dyett when the Re
monftrance came in, my Lord Caflillis fent his man to call me to fpeake with
him at his lodgeing. While we are a little ferious about fundry of the pub-
lick affaires, I found that more tyme had gone than either of us had obferved,
and telling him that my abfence from the Synod might be miftaken, I took
my leave, and with all the hade I could make I gott up to the Church ;
where I found, at my entrie, that all the debates on that paper were clofed,
and after thrice reading, it wes goeing to the vote. I adored Divine provi
dence, who truely befyde my purpofe, but much to my content, had given
me a faire occafion to fay nothing of a wryte, whereof I never heard lyne
read. This, for the time, and fince, wes a fatiffac"lorie ground for my fi-
lence, to my owne mind, in that Remonftrance, which brought to the con-
, fenters, let be contryvers, but fmall credit ; the commiffion of the Church
having fo farr difavowed it, as for no requeft they could be induced to
countenance it towards the Committee of Eftates ; but Mr. Patrick behooved
to prefent it himfelf, without the companie of any from that meeting, which
would have occafioned a noyfe, had not the fecond Remonftrance filled
the eares of the whole kingdom with a louder found.
Mr. Robert Ramfay and others had prefied in the Synod that for re-
moveing of jealoufies from many who were then fpeaking their doubts of fome
men's intentions, the officers of the Armie fliould putt forth a declaration of
their defignes. To me the motion favoured not ; fince the raifeing of thefe
forces wes allowed by the State, all declarations from particular officers feemed
needlefs : yet, on the Synod's motion to Colonell Ker, a declaration by him
and his fellows wes promifed, and prefently gone about by Mr. Patrick and
the chieffe aflbciates then prefent. But, as Mr. Patrick told us, it wes laid
afide by the advyce fent them by Wariftone from Stirling and Mr. James
Guthrie, (betwixt whom and them the pofls then and thereafter runne very
thick night and day,) not fo much on that ground he told us, that they thought
it illegall for fuch private perfons to make publick manifeftoes, as for that,
as I fufpecl, which he told us not.
About this tyme the King's head was filled by fome unhappie men about
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him, efpeciallie Doctor Frafer and Henry [Jermyn,] with many extreame
fears. After the affront at Leith, they had raifed fufpicions in his mind,
whilk, upon the defeat at Dunbar were increafed, but by the feparate ryfe-
ing in the Weft brought near to the head of a defigne to break the treatie
with him, and agree upon his expenfes with Cromwell. Upon thefe motions
the Malignants in the North ftept in, and by the forenamed perfons began
a correfpondence for the railing of the North, under the conduct of Middle-
tone, for his prefent fervice. So many Noblemen were on this unhappie
enterprife : Craufurd wes given out for its head and contryver, albeit he
profefled to me his oppofition to it : Lauderdaill knew of it ; but he hes
faid fo farre to me, that I believe him, he oppofed it to his power. However,
the thing was fo foolifhlie laid, and the King, by the counfells of thefe about
him, wes foe various in giving order for that ryfeing, fometymes commanding
and then countermanding to ryfe, that all the party wes put in a confufion ;
yet, by the information of thefe forefaid fooles, the King being put in fear,
that Lome, goeing timelie to bury a fojour, wes drawing together his regi
ment to lay hands on him, contrare to his former refolutions, he took horfe
with fome two or three, as if he had been for to goe for a baulking, but crofted
Tay, and flayed not till he came to Cloue [Clova] in Angus. By the way
he repented of the journey, and meeting with Lauderdaill at Dudhope, and
Balcarras coming from Dundee by accident, wes almoft perfuaded by them
to returne ; yet by Dudhope and Buchan he was keeped into Cloue. But
when he came to that miferablie accommodate houfe, and in place of the
great promifed forces, he faw nothing but a fmall companie of Highlanders ;
he prefently fent for Robert Montgomerie, who wes near with his regiment,
and without more adoe, did willinglie returne, exceedinglie confounded and
dejected for that ill-advyfed ftart. When it was firft blazed abroad, it filled
all good men with great griefe, and to my owne heart it brought one of the
moft fenlible forrowes that in all my life I had felt. Yet his quick returne
of his owne accord, and his readinefs to give all fatiffaction for that failzie,
and his kind receaveing by the Committee of Eftates, among whom he ever
fatt after his returne, (though never before,) did turne our griefe fuddenlie
into joy, his abfence not lading above two full dayes. Yet all men were not
fo foone fatiffied. Sundry of them who had been on the plott, fearing a dif-
coverie and punifhment, lappe to armes ; Lewis Gordon, Ogilvie, Athole,
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and others, under Middletone's command, putting out a number of faire
pretexts for their ryfeing. This might have deftroyed all ; yet, by God's
mercie, all wes quicklie quyeted. David Leflie, with all his horfe, marched
towards them ; the King wrote earneflly to them to lay downe. The Com
mittee of Eftates fent a faire act of indemnitie, and foe without more adoe
they went home. Mr. James Guthrie had weell near marred this peace : he
moved Middletone's fummar excommunication. Mr. Robert Douglafs, and
mod number prefent, were againft it ; yet Mr. James and Mr. Patrick, by
two or three votes of elders, did obtain it ; and though the Committee of
Eftates, by ane earned letter, intreated Mr. James to delay a little the exe
cution, yet on the next Sabbath he did execute the fentence, to the regrate
of many.
When the Northern ftorme wes ended, the Weftern winds began to blow
the louder. I told their declaration wes keept in by advice from Stirling,
as many thought, to make vantage of the new failings at Court ; for thefe
.wes looked on with a greedy eye, and exaggerate to the height of trueth.
When, with a great deall of expenfes and trouble, our forces in the Weft
were levied, and prefent action againft Cromwell promifed and expected,
the very firft march is to Dumfreifs, the fardeft place they were able to
choife from the enemies quarters. The pretence was, to attend the motion
of the enemie comeing from Carlile ; but when the partie who went from
Edinburgh to fetch them, neither in the goeing nor comeing, wes looked
upon, nor any good at all done by that long march, but the hazarding
of the countrey, and the fpoyling of a number of noblemen and gentlemen
of their fadle-horfes, and lying ftill at Dumfreifs, while Cromwell took up
Glafgow ; this made it vilible they had fomething other in hand than to
mind the enemie. By their earned miffives they had brought Wariftone
from Stirling to Dumfreifs. There, after fome debate, the draught of the
Remonftrance is brought to fome perfection, you fee. It feems one maine
end of both Remonftrances wes to fatiffie Strachan, and for that end they
did come up weell near to his full length both about the King and the State,
the Malignants and England. For in this laft paper they are cleare in con
demning the Treatie as finfull, and notwithftanding of it, to fufpend the
King's government till he (hould give fatiffactory evidence of his reall
change, whereof they were to be judges, who were never like to be fatiffied,
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although they were not like to be troubled with the judgeing of thefe
fignes ; for the King, who had ftarted away upon the fufpition of thefe
things, upon the fight of them in ane Army-Remonflrance, wes not like to
flay ; foe on this efcape the government of the Kingdome, and the diftri-
bution of the Royall rent in new penfions, all the former being voyd, fell
in our own hand ; and if the King fhould have ventured to ftay, then ane
effectuall courfe wes moved to be taken with him to keep him from joyning
with Malignants, which could not be but by a ftrong guard or imprifon-
ment ; albeit this was needleffe, if the courfe againft Malignants had been
taken to putt them out of all capacitie to hurt the people and caufe of God ;
for this could not be but by executing, forfaulting, and imprhToning of the
chiefe of them, as we thought fitt.
As for our prefent ftate, fo many and grofle faults wes preffed againft
Argyle, the Chancellour, Louthian, Balcarras, and others, that in all reafon,
they behooved to be laid afide, and our State modelled of new ; foe that no
active nobleman mould have had any hand therein ; and as for England,
they might reft fecure of our Armies, not only till Church and State
mould agree on the lawfullnefs and expediency of that warre wes found, but
alfo a cleare call from England fhould appeare ; and if we could not marre
the one, and Cromwell the other, yet we behooved to move nothing of bring
ing this King to England, whom we had found unmeett to governe Scotland,
and though thereafter he mould change never foe much to the better, yet it
wes injuftice for us to medle with a Kingdome not fubordinate to us. Thus
farr the Remonftrance went on, and clofed with a folemne ingadgement on
all their hearts, (if God blefled their armies,) to fee all thefe things perform
ed. I have oft marvelled that Strachan remained diflatiffied for all this ; for
I verily think, whatever he or Cromwell could have defyred in Scotland,
would eafily have followed upon the former premifes.
While thefe things are a-doeing at Dumfreifs, Cromwell, with the whole
body of his army and canon, comes peaceably by the way of Kilfyth to Glaf-
gow. The minifters and magiftrates flee all away. I got to the Ifle of Comray,
with my Lady Montgomerie, bot left all my family and goods to Cromwell's
courtefie, which indeed was great ; for he took fuch a courfe with his fojours
that they did lefie difpleafure at Glafgow nor if they had been at London,
though Mr. Zacharie Boyd railled on them all to their very face in the High
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Church. I took this extraordinarie favour from their coming alone to gaine
the people, and to pleafe Strachan, with whom he was then keeping corref-
pondence, and by whom he had great hopes to draw over the Weftern
army, at lead to a ceflation with him ; as indeed he brought them by his
means to be altogether ufelefs ; though on a report of their marching towards
Edinburgh, he left the weft in a great fuddentie and demi-diforder.
So foone as the Remonftrance was perfected, and all prefent at Dumfreiis
profefled their aflent to it, except Strachan, conceaving it to be too low for
his meridian, Mr. Patrick and Mr. John Stirling, with fome of the gentle
men, went along with it to Stirling, and Wariftone in their companie. The
Commiflion of the Kirk refuifes to medle with it ; only Mr. Robert Douglafs
writes to the Prefbyteries to fend to the next meeting at Stirling, with their
commiflioners of the Church, fome more of their number, of greateft expe
rience and wifdome, to advyfe in matters of great importance. The Commit
tee of Eftates, by Wariftone's means, at their firft prefenting, put no affront
on it ; but what wes a verie dangerous errour, gave too good words to the
carriers ; and, to allure them to action againft the enemie, increafes their
forces, by joyning with them the dragoons of Niddefdale and the Lennox ;
and overfeeing alfo the feathers which they had drawne out of the Stirling's
wing, the putting them in hope to gett the Stirling's neft, which made
them march quicklie weft to Partick, in order to Stirling, thinking that Leflie
and Middletone mould have been in others flefh in the north. But to their
open difcontent, the northern ftorme being compofed, and David Leflie re
turned to Stirling, they turned their head ane other way.
When, after my return to Glafgow, I did fee their Remonftrance, and
Cromwell's letter thereupon, on the occafion of Strachan's Queries, requyr-
ing a treatie, which at that fame time he fent his prifoners Mr. Jaffray and
Mr. Carftairs to agent, I wes fore grieved, but knew not how to help
it; only I fent the copies of all, with e*xprefle bearers to Argyle and yow
at Innerary, and to the Chancellour at Perth, and Mr. James Fergufone at
Kilwinning, with my beft advyce to yow all, and refolved myfelfe to keep
the next meeting of the Commiflion, on the call of their letter, to declare
my diflent, if I could doe no more. But behold, the next Prefbyterie day,
when I am abfent, Mr. Patrick [Gillefpie] caufes read again the Commiflion's
letter, and had led it foe, that by the elders votes, [the] men of greateft
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experience and wifdome of our Prefbyterie were the two youngeft we had,
Mr. Hew Binning and Mr. Andrew Morton. Then when it was preffed
that I might be but added to them, it wes, by a vote, refufed upon fuppofi-
tion it wes needlefs, being clear I would doubtlefs goe howfoever. Thefe
defpytefull votes wrought foe on my mind when I heard of them, that I re-
folved not to goe, for all that could be faid to me by many of the brethren ;
yet the clerk of the Commiffion, at the Moderator's direction, writing to
me from Stirling a preffing letter, I went along to Perth ; where, by God's
good providence, I have flayed fince for many good purpofes.
At the meeting of Sterling, there was a conference appointed of the chief
members of the Committee of Eftate and Commiffion of the Church, on the
Remonftrance ; wherein there were many high words about it betwixt
Wariftone and Mr. Robert Douglas, Mr. Robert Ramfay and Mr. Patrick
Gillefpie, Mr. James Wood and Mr. James Guthrie, and others : no appear
ance there was of any iffue. The time of Parliament at Perth drawing near,
the King, by his letter, invited the meeting of Church and State to Perth.
The defyre of many wes but to have fome agreeance before ; if no other way
were poffible, as none appeared, that the Remonftrance might be laid afide,
and much of the matter of it be preffed in ane orderly way by the Com
miffion of the Kirk, and the forces of the Weft be joyned with thefe at Stir
ling ; fince for fo long a time, they had acted nothing apart, and never like
to act nothing for any purpofe alone. The Remonftrants were averfe from
thefe motions ; fo all wes laid afide till they came to Perth ; at which time
a new conference wes appointed, and four whole dayes keept in Argyle's
chamber. I then, and thereafter, wes witnefs to all, and little more than a
witnefs ; for not being a commiffioner, I thought meet to be filent. For the
one fide, Mr. Patrick and Wariftone fpoke moft ; for the other, Argyle, the
Chancellour, the Advocate, and Mr. Robert Douglafs ; but Mr. Wood fpake
moft, and to beft purpofe. Mr. Rutherfoord and Mr. Durham faid fome
little for fundrie points of the Remonftrance. Mr. James Guthrie moft inge-
nuouflie and freely, did vent his mind, for the principal point, (as he avowed
he had oft before maintained,) " That the clofe of our treatie wes a finne, to
promife any power to the King before he had evidenced the change of his
principles ; and the continuing of that power in his hand wes finfull till that
change did appear." Though it wes vifible, that every day the kingdome lan-
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guUhes, under thefe debates, which impeded that action, there was no re-
mead : by no perfuafion the Remonftrance could be taken up ; yea, the gen
tlemen gave in a petition to the Eftates at Perth, in the prefence of the King,
urgeing the anfwer thereof; from which petition they would not pafle: yea,
when they were mod earneftly dealt with to conjoyne their forces, all that
could be obtained, both by public! and diverfe private intreaties, both of their
bed friends, Argyle, and others, there wes a willingnefs to joyne on two
conditions : The firft wes, ane exprefie laying afide of the King's quarrell in
the ftate of the queftion ; the other, to keep none in the armie of Stirling
but according to the qualifications in the act of Parliament. When in thefe
two all of the gentlemen and officers were found peremptor, the conference
on the Fry day, the fourth day of it, wes broken off as fruitlefs ; though, for
their fatiffaftion, the Parliament had been (hifted from the Wednesday to
the Fryday, and from the Fryday to the Tuefday againe, for all the iflue
of blood, and ftarveing, that wes every day over the Kingdome.
Before the meeting at Stirling, the Remonftrants had a folemne meeting
at Glafgow, by Mr. Patrick [Gillefpie's] call, where, the fubfcryving of the
Remonftrance was much preffed on the great committee of gentlemen and
officers, by the minifters, who did fitt apart in the Tolbuith, and called them-
felves the Prefbyterie of the Weftern Armie. That fubfcription was gene
rally declyned, and by no perfuafion any more could be obtained nor a
warrant, fubfcryved by Crolbie the prelident of the committee, to fome few
commiflioners, to prefent the Remonftrance to the State. Mr. Robert Ramfay,
fore againft my mind, did offer, in his owne and my name, once and againe,
to come and debate, in their prefence, with the brethren, the injuftice of
that Remonftrance. This offer was told in the committee : all the anfwer
it gott was, that no man wes excluded to come and propone what they
pleafed. Upon fuch intertainment we let them alone. Here it wes where
Strachan, before having laid downe his charge, wes commanded to goe no
more to the regiment; bot he told them exprefllie, he could not obey.
Some would have been at laying him faft, for feare of his goeing to the
enemie ; but lead that Ker and many more mould thereby have been pro-
vocked, they let him alone. Govane, for his known correfpondence with
the enemie, wes caiheired, and their (kout-mafter Dundafs alfo. Sundry of
the officers were fufpe&ed to be of Strachan's principles, albeit the moft
went not beyond the Remonftrance.
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When the conference wes broken off, the Committee of State went about
their anfwer to the petitioners ; and there began debate ; the moft found
the matter high treafon : the divefting the King of his authoritie ; the
breaking of the Treatie clofed and approven by Kirk and State ; the fclander-
ing highly of the Judicatories ; and ingadgeing of private men to change the
government : the deepnefs of thefe crymes did trouble the judges ; the
refpect the moft of them had to the perfons guilty, moveing them to goe
fan* lower than the wryte's deferving ; and all of them being refolved to make
no more of it than was in the Committee's power to pardon, they went
therefore no higher in the cenfure than you have in the fentence ; from which
yet near fyfteen diffented for one or other word, though all profeffed their
difallowance of the wryte. This diffent wes in the King's prefence. If he
had been abfent, as fome would have perfuaded him, the diffent might have
been greater; for Wariftone wes very long and paffionate in his exhort
ation to wave it iimply, which had been very unhandfome, fince the par
ties peremptorlie refuifed to take it up. At the fentence, the gentlemen did
florme, but the minifters much more. It came next to the Commiffion
of the Church ; the States had given in their fenfe to them, and requyred
the Kirk's judgement. Here came the vehement oppofition : The Remon-
ftrants petitioned to have the prefent consideration thereof laid afide, leift the
parties mould be difcouraged to act againft the enemie : Mr. Rutherfoord
preft this with much more paffion than reafon, and Mr. James Guthrie alfo.
Here it wes where I fpoke but fo much as declared my fenfe againft the
thing. Much dealing wes ftill to take it up : Meffrs. Cant, Blair, Ruther
foord, Durham, were fent to perfwade them ; but Mr. Patrick wes peremp-
tor to ihew their willingnefs to quit their life rather than their teftimonie.
So when there wes no remeed, at laft, by Mr. Robert Douglafs and Mr.
James Wood's induftrie moft, it came to that mild fentence which yow fee
here fubfcryvit. With it the parties were highly offended, and entered
their loud proteftation. Mr. Robert Blair came in the hinder-end. He and
yow, by your letters, had fignified your judgement much averfe from the
Remonftrance ; which in a fcolding way wes cryed out by Mr. John Nevay
in Mr. Blair's face : to which he replyed nothing. Mr. David Bennet and
Mr. Hugh Peebles expreft themfelves bitterlie, and were anfuered accordingly
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this was to be left to the State's difcretion. However, when the cafe wes
clearlie altered, and now there wes no choife of men, the Parliament wrote
to Mr. Robert Douglafs to call the Commiflion extraordinarlie : A quorum
wes gott, mod of thefe of Fyfe. The queftion wes proponed, of the law-
fullnefs of employing fuch who before were excluded. The queftion wes
alleadged to be altered from that which Mr. Gillefpie wrytes of, and that
whereto Mr. Guthrie had folemnlie ingadged, a defence of our life and
countrey, in extreame neceflitie, againft fectarians and ftrangers, who had
twyce been victors. My heart was in great perplexitie for this queftion. I
wes much in prayer to God, and in fome action with men, for a concord in
it. The Parliament were neceffitate to employ more than before, or give
over their defence. Mr. Samuel Rutherfoord and Mr. James Guthrie wrote
peremptor letters to the old way, on all hazards. Mr. Robert Douglafs and
Mf. David Dick had of a long time been in my fenfe, that in the warre
againft invadeing ftrangers, our former ftricknefs had been unadvyfed and
unjuft. Mr. Blair and Mr. Durham were a little ambiguous, which I much
feared mould have devided the Commiflion ; and likelie had done foe, if
with the lofle of the Weft, the abfence of all the brethren of the Weft had
not concurred. However, we carried unanimouflie at laft the anfwer heir-
with fent to yow. My joy for this was foon tempered when I faw the confe-
quence, the ugging of fundrie good people to fee numbers of grievous blood-
fhedders ready to come in, and fo many malignant noblemen as were not
lyke to lay downe armes till they were put into fome places of truft, and
reftored to their vote in Parliament : Againft this, neceflitie for our very
being, and hope that the guides of our State would, by their wifdome and
vertue, and adherence of the Church and good men, get keepit what they
had of authentic ; the Chancellour oft remembering us, that in this there wes
ane fearfull alteration of the cafe, that the King being now in Covenant, the
mod, whofe malignancie flood in following the King againft the Covenant,
were no more to be counted Malignants, the fountaine of that evill being
(lopped in them, there was juft ground why that blot and name of diftinc-
tion in that refpec~l Ihould be now abolimed. Ane other inconvenient wes
like to trouble us, a feed of Hyper-Brownifme, which had been fecreitly
fowen in the minds of fundry of the fojours, that it wes unlawfull to joyne
in armes with fuch and fuch men, and foe that they were neceflitate to make
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a civill reparation from fuch, for fear of finne and curfeing of their inter-
prizes. The maine fomenters of thefe doubts feemed not at all to be led by
confcience, but by intereft ; for the officers of our (landing armie, fince the
defeat at Dunbar, being fent to recruite the regiments to the northern fhyres,
did little increafe that number, but takeing large money for men, and yet
exacted quarters for men which were not ; this vexed the countrey, and dif-
appointed the fervice. The officers, by the new leavies, thought it eafy to
be recruited at their pleafure ; but ane Act paffing, that the new leavies
mould not recruite the old regiments, they flormed, and gladly would have
blafted the new way for their owne ends. Under thefe evills we wreftle as
yet, but hopes for a good end of thefe divifions alfo ; in the meane tyme
Cromwell is daylie expected to march towards Stirling to marre the Corona
tion, which, fore againft my heart, was delayed to the firft of January, on
pretence of keeping a faft for the linnes of the King's family on Thurfday
next. We mourned on Sunday laft for the contempt of the Gofpell, accord
ing to Mr. Dickfon's motion, branched out by Mr. Wood. Alfo yow fee
in the printed papers, upon other particulars the Commiffion at Stirling,
which appointed thefe fails, could not agree. The Remonftrants preffed to
have fundry linnes acknowledged which others denyed, and would not now
permitt them to fett down as they would what caufes of faft they liked.
Surely we had never more caufe of mourning, be the caufes, what God
knowes, vifible or invifible, confeft or denyed, unfeen or feen, by all but the
moil guiltie. It cannot be denyed but our miferies and dangers of ruine are
greater nor for many ages have been ; a potent victorious enemy mailer of
our feas, and for fome good time of the beft part of our land ; our ftanding
forces againft this his imminent invaiion, few, weak, inconfiderable ; our
Kirk, State, Armie, full of divifions and jealoufies ; the body of our people
be-fouth Forth fpoyled, and near ftarveing ; they be-north Forth extreamlie ill
ufed by a handfull of our owne ; many inclyning to treat and agree with
Cromwell, without care either of King or Covenant; none of our neigh
bours called upon by us, or willing to give us any help, though called. What
the end of all ihall be, the Lord knowes. Many are ready to faint with dif-
couragement and defpaire : yet diverfe are waiting on the Lord, expecting he
will help us in our great extreamitie againft our moil unjuil oppreifors.
I hope you received my laft inclofed in Callander's packett. Yow have
128 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1651.
here a large narration of many of our proceedings. When I began to write
it, my intention was for Mr. David Dick ; but a little after I had begun,
finding this bearer going towards you, I enlarged my letter for your [infor
mation] : hafte and want of good inftruments for the tyme, makes the write,
I fear, illegible ; but guefs it as you may. You have with it a copy of a
letter of mine to our friends in England, which for a tyme keep fecret to
yourfelf alone. I fend you alfo a copy of diverfe other wrytes, which I
think you may defyre to fee.
This day we have done that what I earneftly defyred, and long expected,
Crowned our noble King with all the folemnities at Scoone, fo peaceablie
and magnificentlie as if no enemy had been among us. This is of God :
for it was Cromwell's purpofe, which I thought eaiily he might have per
formed, to have marred by armes that action, at lead the folemnitie of it.
The Remonftrants, with all their power, would have oppofed it ; others pro
longed it fo long as they were able : allwayes, blefied be God ! it is this day
celebrate with great joy and contentment to all honefl-hearted men here.1
Mr. Douglafs, from 2 Kings xi., Joam's coronation, had a very pertinent,
wife, and good fermon. The King fware the Covenant, the League and
Covenant, the Coronation Oath : when Argyle put on the Crown, Mr.
Robert Douglafs prayed weell ; when the Chancellour fet him in the throne,
he exhorted weell ; when all were ended, he, with great earneftnefs, prefTed
finceritie and conftancie in the Covenant on the King, delateing at length
King James's breach of the Covenant, perfewed yet againft the family,
from Nehemiah v. 13. God's cafting the King out of his lap, and the 34th
of Jeremiah, many plagues on him if he doe not fincerely keep the oathes
now taken : He clofed all with a prayer, and the 20th Pfalm.
Dundas and Major Abernethie hes moil bafely delyvered the Caftle to
Cromwell. All the minifters faw the treacherie, and protefted againft it.
Wariftone, Sir John Cheiflie, and the Provoft of Edinburgh, who put them
in that truft, contrare to the minds of others, have little credit by it.
Now the Parliament having, by the needlefs length of fome, fitten fo long,
and ended their feflion on Mononday after twelve at night ; none of the
1 There was published at the time " The Form and Order of the Coronation of Charles the
Second, King of Scotland, England, France, and Ireland : as it was actrd and done at Scoone,
the first day of Januarie 1651. Aberdene, Imprinted by James Brown, 1651," 4to. This
tract, which includes the Sermon by Douglas, has been several times reprinted.
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Remonftrants are on the Committee of Eftates : Wariftone, with great
difficulty, was gotten on ; all diligence will now be ufed to get up ane
armie. The Lord be with us. Our greater danger will be from famine
now ; [and to] get vic~lualls to ftarving Ireland. It were ane happy benefite
if your Hollanders would bring us in vi6luall for money : the Spaniard,
nor any other, could never, by their perfualion nor force, hinder them to
trade wherever they find gain. Is not this a ftrange flaverie, [through] love
to the Englifh murtherers, that they, for their pleafure, mould give over all
trade with us their brethren and weell-deferving friends ? Though we mould
never be able to revenge their ingratitude ; yet there is a God who will
fee to it. Our cafe will be exceeding hard if, before the fumrner, your Zea-
landers, on piety and pity, be not moved to bring us victualls for all the
money we have refling ; though it may be the Lord may be pleafed to open
fome other door which yet is not vifible to us.
Perth, Januarv 2d 1651.
POSTSCRIPT.
1 think to-morrow we mall give order to excommunicate Strachan, and
relax Middleton the next Sabbath. By the cunning of fome, all ingadging
officers and noblemen were all purged out of our armies ; but now I think
all of them, without any confiderable exception, are received. On this
neceffare conclufion, fome turbulent men are like to be factious ; but to
morrow a Warning2 is to be putt out for their reclaiming if poffible. By
God's bleffing, our affairs fhortly may, be in a better poilure : our great
troublers, both in Church and State, have fett themfelves aiide. If God
give us over to Cromwell, we expect little good from thefe men but a violent
executing of all in their Remonftrance ; but otherwayes I think they
may be brought quicklie to repent their needlefs quarrelling. However, the
Lord's will be done, who has begunne to comfort us, with the fmallefl
appearance of better hopes.
2 " A Solemn Warning to all the Members of this Kirk, from the Commission of the
Generall Assemblie : With an Act, for censuring such as act, or comply with the Sectarian
Armie, now infesting this Kingdom. Aberdene, Imprinted by James Brown, Anno 1651."
4to. pp. 19. The Warning is dated at Perth, 7th January 1651.
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THE COMMISSION'S CONSOLATORY LETTER TO EDINBURGH.3
DEARLY BELOVED IN THE LORD,
As the fad fufferings of the reft of the land doe much affli6l us, fo your
more eminent afflictions, by the continuall oppreflions of the incumbent enemie,
doe more deeplie peirce our hearts. Our prayers to God in your behalf
are for the abundance of his mod tender confolations, whereby your fpirits
may be upholden from fainting in this day of your very fore tryall. We
have been comforted to hear of your conflancie in adhereing to the truth
and caufe of God, notwithflanding of all the indeavours which thefe inftru-
ments of Sathan, who night and day are among you, have ufed, whether by
terror or allurements againfl your ftabilitie. We truft the Lord, who yet has
made you to ftand, (hall confirme you and make you perfevere to the end,
keeping your garments clean and your confciences pure of all the abomina
tions which are either openly avowed or more fecretly harboured by that
evill generation. For this end we earneftlie exhort yow, and, by the power
we have over you in the Lord, require you, to avoid all familiar converfing
with thefe feducers ; but above all, that you beware to joyne with them
in publick worfhip, or in any private exercife of religion : Who ventures
to touch pitch will be defyled before they be aware ; who will take fire
in their bofome cannot but be fcorched therewith ; who will not abftaine
from the harlot's houfe (hall not be innocent : beware of the wyles and
fubtile deeps of the Devill ; and, among all his inftruments, we intreat yow
to avoid none more than thefe miferable apoftates of our own nation ; for
we conceave none to be more fitted of the Devill, and given over of God to
work mifchiefe among yow than thefe. Encourage one another in the
Lord ; and now, while publick ordinances may be wanting, let every one
apart, and every man in his own familie, be carefull of holy exercifes to
keep in and encreafe the fpunk of grace and zeal before attained ; labouring
with all care to obtaine from the Lord that foftnefs and melting of heart,
that earneftnefs and pouring out of a praying fpirit, that firme adherance
3 To the title of this paper, (the date of which was 7th January 1651,) Baillie adds, " By
my hand ;" that is, Written by him, whilst at Perth.
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unto and continuall dependance upon God, which may fitt yow to hold out in
bearing your croffes, to that day of deliverance which fhall be fent from the
Lord, and which we believe he is haflening to yow and the reft of your
fellow-fufferers over the land with all convenient fpeed : as for us, be allured
we fhall not be inlacking in our addrefles both to God and men in your
behalfe. Our Remonftrance to the Committee of Eftates, our Letter to the
Preflbyteries, our Warning to the whole land, and our Anfwer to the excep
tions of fome men againft fome of our proceedings, we have fent to you,
whereof we know ye will make good ufe. So commending you unto the
mercifull upholding and direction of the Comforter, till thir times of thick
darknefs be over, and for ever. We reft.
FOR MR. DAVID DICKSON, AT INNERARAY. MARCH STH [1651.]
As yet I could not get Mr. Patrick [Gillefpie]'s papers fo as to write
animadverfions on them. He has (which yow defyre) goeing athort a long
paper of feven or nyne meets, and a compend of it of three or four meets,
alfo ane anfwer to yow of four flieets, and Mr. James Guthrie's anfwer to
yow of four meets, and Mr. James Guthrie's reply to the Commiflion's anfwer
to his letter. I have no time for this, for on Monday I dyte Thefes of the
Errors of the Time ; on Thurfday and Fryday I dyte long leffons in Chro
nologic ; on Thurfday I have a long Hebrew leffon ; Thurfday, before
noone, I wait on the Homilies, and will goe through the Directorie for
preaching, prayer, facraments, &c. ; Saturday is for Sunday. I have many
letters for the publick to write every other day. I hardly enough hold up
with all thir in fo calamitous a time, fo albeit I was minded to tell my mind
of thefe papers, 1 muft let it alone ; only of the light view I took of fome
of them I had thefe thoughts : — They are a heap of clatters, mere teftimonies
of late papers (which Mr. James Guthrie and two or three with him put on
the Church) which touch not the prefent cafe ; without fcripture, reafon,
or any light, or any life of difcourfe ; they goe in a way of confufion and
will not ftate a queftion ; never tells pofitivelie and clearlie what they
call a Malignant, and what a Malignant partie, and what places of truft, and
what convincing figns of repentance. It feems to me their way is direc"llie
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for deftroying both our Church and Kingdome, if God help not you, and
the like of you, to crofle them. The prefent queflion about the more gene-
rail junction, is but a mere pretext. Before any fuch queftion was moved,
they were peremptor to doe as now they are doeing. After all poffible
intreaties of the Church and State, they would not confent to joyne their
forces of the Weft to this of Stirling, as being truelie then Malignant and not
to be joyned with ; from which they had withdrawne all they were able, both
officers and fojours, after Dunbar, to bring them to nothing, and to make the
Weftern armie the only armie of the Kingdome, to be difpofed on abfo-
lutelie at their owne pleafure. They gave, in my hearing, at St. Johnftone,
a kind of unwilling promife of endeavour to joyne the Weft forces with the
North, bot with two exprefie conditions, which they knew would never be
granted : The one, of purgeing the North forces according to the Act of
State, which was to lay David Leflie afide, and who elfe, officers and fojours,
they liked, that Strachan, and who they liked, might rule the new-modelled
armie als abfolutelie as Cromwell did the Englifh. 2dly, That the King's
intereft might formallie and pofitivelie be laid afide out of our quarrell with
Cromwell ; and that not only his Englifh intereft, which yet they ftand to,
bot alfo his Scottish intereft, as it ftands in the Remonftrance, from which to
this day they have not paft, but by their appeale adheres to. The queftion,
as they make it, is high enough : a formall rebellion againft both Church
and State ; a publick contradiction to both ; yea, while they call for the
nation's help in a vifible extreame danger, our brethren, by daylie publick
preaching, and prayer, and writes, openlie doe hinder all they can to ryfe,
and perfuades all they are able to fitt ftill, till the King, Kingdome, and Church
be devoured by Cromwell. The finne, fhame, and hurt of this their clear
and avowed deed, is nothing helped by their excufes and intentions ; albeit,
if they will fpeak out their clear mind, I doubt their intentions are fan-
higher than to fitt ftill and let Cromwell deftroy their brethren. I feare
their principles give them clear libertie ; yea, will putt them to act againft
them they cannot joyne with ; and they will give no fecuritie. I fuppone
that they will, with force of armes, with the bloodfhed of all who ftand in
their way, when they fee it time, fupprefle the prefent Armie, Parliament, and
Commiffion of Church, and frame both Church and Kingdome according to
their owne modell. Grounds for this will be found in their papers and daylie
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practifes. I fear, however, for the Church : they are goeing clearlie enough
to rent it. The moil eminent perfons and higheft judicatories thereof, that
are againft them only in this State and Militarie queftion, they totallie mifre-
gard, as the language of thefe papers bears. They defend a libertie for a
part of the congregation to feparate from the reft, where the difcipline alone
is not execute according to their mind. The Separating part, before any
fentence obtained or fought, may not always want ordinances, fo muft put
themfelves in a church ftate by themfelves, and that independent from any of
thefe judicatories with which they are at odds. This one principle Mr.
Patrick is now preaching, and others defending in difcourfe, if flood to, will
force them to all the reft. Belide ane other queftion, they will find it out
of queftion that Church fellowlhip is ftraiter and more tender than any
State focietie, and moft of all than Militarie ; and where a State and Militarie
feparation is neceflarie, there a Church feparation is much more neceffarie.
I think you will make this fo cleare that they will not gett it denyed.
The affumption of the neceffitie of a Militarie feparation, the naturall and
judiciall ftiffnefs of fome men, I fear, will not fuffer them to quate, and fo
the conclufion will inevitablie follow, the neceffitie of a Church feparation.
God grant my logick here may be wrong ; but of a long time I have feared
fome mens way tended to this end on diverfe prefumptions.
I think God in his goodnefs to this land has engaged you, Mr. Robert
Blair, Mr. James Wood, and Mr. Douglafs, and my Lord Argyle in this quar-
rell. It's no time now to dallie, where is the boldnefs and diligence of thefe
men : have you your anfwers fo full and ftrong as yow may expect no favour
from them here after. I think yow would [mould] not follow their roving
wrytes ; fay to the purpofe, and fpeak out before God to their confcience ;
though fome of their writers will not hear yow, yet I believe God will make
yow inftrumentall to many of our good people, whom for the time they have
deeply enfnared, and will carie any where, if God remeed it not, to the huge
fcandall of all the churches abroad, and the indangering of the (landing of our
Church and Kingdome, and the lofle of many precious foules : Ane unex
pected moft dangerous ftratagem of Satan againft poor Scotland, yea Britaine,
as any yet we have feen on a very fimple and caufelefs occalion. Up, and
the Lord affift yow in this fpeciall battell of his Son.
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FOR MR. ROBERT DOWGLASS AT KIRKALDIE.
MARCH IOTH 1651.
WHETHER yow receaved a packett of myne fome twentie dayes agoe, I
Ihould be glad by a lyne from yow to know. In it wes one to Generall
Major Maflie, and one to Balcarras, both open for your reading ; alfo three or
four fheets, called Mr. Patrick Gillefpie's, againft the refolutions of the
Church and State, a compend of a larger paper of feven or eight fheets,
which now I fend yow, together with Mr. Patrick's anfwer to Mr. David
Dickfon's letter in four fheets ; alfo Mr. James Guthrie's anfwer to the fame
letter : there is two fheets of it more, which I know not yet if now can be
readie. My owne opinion of thefe papers, I fent to Mr. David ; a copie
whereof ye have alfo here. God hes oft made your wifdome and floutnefs
happie for our poor Church ; never more need of it than now. If ye think
it expedient to let fo many fcurvie lybells, be openly fent abroad againft the
King, Kirk, State, and moft eminent of the brethren, I fubmitt to your wif
dome, which I have found allwayes greater than my owne ; only I aflure yow
the boldnefs of fome men in daily preaching, writing, and I fear too pragma-
tick confultations, is hardly tollerable. Yow fee in Mr. David's letter to me
his mind that the Commiffion mould yet once againe warne and declare. I
wifh withall that Mr. James Wood would once more take to conlideration
fome of the matters of all thefe papers together ; indeed thereafter the Kirk
fhould take courfe to flop contradictions. Our Synods now are comeing on ;
I wifh the Commiffion might take courfe they be not corrupted fhould
writers, preachers, and bold debaters againft the Commiffion, have votes in
Synods and Prefbyteries, efpeciallie in election of commiffioners to a Gene
rall AfTemblie : It wont not to be fo. Yow will not forget a Faft for the
Annie. Your Warning is not yet come to our Prefbyterie : that is a monftrous
neglect. If Duncan Munne had keeped his gift of printing, we had gotten
a prefle long ere now ; it's a very great pitie that a prefie in any terms fhould
be wanting. I have fent yow herewith a paper, called Mr. James Fergufon's,
which hes done good here. In Mr. Alexander Nifbett's laft letter to me
yow will fee the condition of Cunynghame, and in Mr. Robert Wallace's the
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condition of Kyle and Carrick : make what ufe of all thefe papers yow lyke,
bot mifken my name. Though yow have all, yet I thought fitt to be
fure of it. I did fee jufl now two proteftations of Mr. Guthrie's againft King
and State, goeing among our people. I think they force the Commiffion to
doe what fundry of the wifeft here thought they mould have done before, to
take that matter to confideration, and pronounce a fentence upon it clearly
and plainly, without Iffs or Ands. If the State be right, yow are obliedged in
confcience to affift them, and goe before them in judging men of your coat,
who, with fo high a hand, every way oppofes them under pretext of ecclefiaftick
liberties ; and your not judging any their contradictions to be againft your acts,
I think they have left you no more place of conniving. You fee what Mr.
Alexander Nifbett writes to me ; I underftand it not, but feares there is fome
practice with England to hinder all rifeing for us and the King, as being all
malignants together. James Grahame, the other night, fatt up all night
with fome taylors for a new fute, and the morning after, well armed and
horfed, rode eaft, I fufpect to England, whether his mailer may follow.
Were it not good to iffue a declaration to England, both by the King and
Kirk to prevent men's malice ? When they hinder Scotland to rife againft
Cromwell, how much more will they and muft they doe foe in England;
and what can be more malicious and dangerous if not feen to ?
UNTO THE KING'S MOST EXCELLENT MAJESTIE, AND HIS HONOURABLE
ESTATES CONVEENED IN PARLIAMENT.
HUMBLY MEANS AND SHEWS,
WHEREAS in bygane Parliaments it hath been ane ordinarie favour granted
to all the Univerfities in the Kingdome to appoint Vifitors for them, it is the
Supplicant's humble defyre, that his Majeftie and prefent Parliament would be
pleafed to name fuch as they mail think fitting to litt at Glafgow, or any
where they mall think it expedient, for the vifitation of the Univerfitie of
Glafgow, with fuch power as his Majeftie and former Parliaments have ordi-
narlie granted to Vifitors in fuch cafes.
And your Majeftie' s and Honours Anfwer, humbly I expect,
Martii 10, 1651. M. R. BAYLIE.
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FOR MY LORD BALCARRAS.
MY LORD,
As I wrote to you twyce before, I now intreat againe, if there be any fitt
ing of Parliament, you will gett the enclofed defyre paft, if it can be without
prefenting of my bill, or my name heard. When I wes laft with yow, the
Reclor and Dean of Facultie fubfcryved a defyre unto me for this end ; by
the advyce of the reft of the Moderators, I fent lately that letter to you,
which pofliblie with others is mifcarried. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, without the
knowledge, and contrare to the mind of all our Moderators except one, by
whifpering Wariftone in the eare, paft our laft Vifitation in the laft Parlia
ment 1649, without all dinne or obfervation, in the termes you have here in-
clofed, to a lift of names he prefented, without the alteration of one, to (itt
where they liked, and till they were difcharged, as I think : the quorum, as
I think, was feven, or at moft nine : That yet ftands above our head ; they
may meet any morning when Mr. Patrick pleafes, and doe with us all what
they like beft. The handfomeft way to be quite of them is to appoint a
new one : I wifh the quorum be fyve or feven at moft. For feare of tyning
I have putt the lift on the back of this letter ;4 change whom you will, but
not yourfelf : if Lauderdaill be gotten in the Parliament, let him be one :
have a care of this I command and charge. I think yow (hould prefs the
Kirk by all means to take Mr. James Guthrie off your hand : if they doe it
not, they putt yow on a needlefs rocke. I feare, but cannot make it out,
that befyde other refults of many meetings here, one be to deall with the
Prelbyterians in England, not to joyne more with the King and this Annie
than they did before with the Engagers. The niifchiefe of this malice cannot
4 My Lord Chancellour, my Lord Argyle, my Lord Eglintoun, my Lord Angus, my Lord
Unli-arras the Laird of Houston*1, the Laird of Bishoptoune, the Laird of Lusse, the Laird of
Blair, my Lord Broomhall, Mr. David Buchanan: The Laird of Cunynghame, Mr. James
Robertsone of Bedlaw, Adam Blair of Dogtoune, Mr. Robert Barclay, Hew Kenuedie, Mr.
John Dunlop of Garnkirk : Mr. Hobert Dowglass, Mr. John Smith, Mungo Law, Mr. Robert
Kerr, Mr. Robert Blair, Mr. James Bonnar, Mr. John Bell, Mr. Patrick Colvill, Mr. William
Russell, Mr. Richard English, Mr. Patrick Scharpe, Mr. David Elphingstone, Mr. Robert
Wallace, Mr. Gabriel Cunynghame, elder.
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be prevented but by the King and Church's fair declaration to England and
Maffie's meflengers. I confefie, if yow could gett your armie any way main
tained without diflblution, I inclyne to a waiting on without any needlefs
hafte. Time may doe us good. Yours,
S. JAMISONE.
The King's goodnefs will day lie gaine our hearts, and Cromwell's armie,
I hope, will faill more and more. I have written my mind freelie and fullie
to Mr. Robert Dowglafs.
FOR MR. JOHN SMYTH, MR. ROBERT KERR, OR JAMES SCHAIRPE,
MARCH 21sT [1651.]
I HAVE written fundry long fcrolles to Mr. Robert Dowglafs fince I faw
yow, but he hes never been pleafed to let me know whether he hes receaved
any of them. I take it in good part, for I know the multitude of his weightie
affairs : The Lord help him with them : only I pray yow, if ye have any
time, call for a fight of my letters, and for him write me fome lynes of ane
anfwer. We know not what yow are doing. Our neighbours hes dayly
large informations, I fufpect to your prejudice, and of the publict, which we
are not inflrucled to refute. I have fent this exprefle to yow, to learne how
all goes, fo farr as may be communicat. By the inclofed yow may fee part
of our condition. Ayr is prettie right, not feven miniflers of the twenty-fix
wrong ; Galloway alfo is almoft whollie right ; foe Dumbartan ; Hamiltone is
waltering. If yow take not fome courfe, our ftryving is in vaine, and what
by our labour we have gained, your negligence will lofie it to us. By Mr.
David Dick's letter, I fee he is bufie on a reply to Mr. Gillefpie and Mr.
Guthrie : he would be incouraged. We are extreamlie evill ferved with cor-
refpondence from yow there. If we heard more, we might be more ufefull.
My fervice to Mr. Andrew [Ker] : he hes no time nor leifure for the likes
of me. I need feek no more extracts from him, fince he hes fent all our
Regiflers back againe to Leith.
Your Brother,
Glafgow, March 20th 1651. ROB. BAYLIE.
VOL. III. S
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Our Synod is comeing on. I have done my beft to have none, or to have
it right if poflible ; hot I am almoft defperate of this. The diligence of fome
men is too great to gett their partie to keep, and the negligence of the other
to gather their friends no lefs. Did not the Commiffion lie that no man ac-
ceflbrie to the divifive fupplication mould fit in ane Afiemblie till cleared ?
If fome fuch courfe be not taken with adherers to the Remonftrance, proteft-
ers, preachers, writers againft King, Kirk, and Commiffion, not only fundry
Synods, hot our Generall Aflemblie, is like in evident hazard to be over-
throwne. I pray fee we gett intelligence what ye are doing. I advyfe to
fend a letter to our Prelbyteries, with the former Warning : fend but one
copie in write to our Prefbyterie. I mail be anfwerable for copies to all the
Prefbyteries in the weft, or what other papers yow will be pleafed to fend : I
ihall be at the charge and paynes of fpreading them for one moneth at lead.
'If Mr. Andrew [Ker] have the Minutes of the laft Aflemblie befide him, I
pray yow take out what concerns our Colledge, and putt in any hand to
write, that Mr. Andrew may fubfcryve it only, and yow fend it to me with
this boy, who (hall wait on yow for it fo long as yow think fit. It concerns
us much to have thefe extracts, if poflible to be had. I have written to Bal-
rarras for ane extract of our Vifitation, paft the other day in the Parliament :
1 pray fo quietly and quickly let that extract be gotten, and fent with this
boy als foon as may be.
To [THE EARL OF] LAUDERDAILL. MARCH HTH 1651.
LOVING FRIEND,
I HAVE now oft fent to fundry of yow there, and fometimes exprefs bearers,
who heve brought me back no anfwers at all. I am almoft angrie ; did I
not hold in a time, when I fee the anger of impotent men is neglected. I
have once more refolved to try your difcretions, and fent that exprefs to your
felfe and your coufigne William to crave two or three lynes under one of your
hands, had yow never fo much adoe, or elfe to give up goflbprie. Anfwer fo
much of my laft as yow think fitt, in fuch termes as yow care not who
may fee it. We are altogether ignorant here what yow are doing, and are
abufed by a number, I am fure, of falfe reports. Refolves the Commiflion
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to miiken Mr. James Guthrie, and let the Parliament take minifters to talk,
that the King, in his firft entry, mall have that load on his moulders ? Will
the A<5i of clafles make a new divifion, even among the Anti Remonftrants ?
Shall no ufe be made of Cromwell's yet fuppofed death ? againft which yet
we have nothing. Eglintone writes to William Home, his fervant, our baillie,
that he hes throught our Vifitation : I wifh he had rather written it to myfelfe,
for the quieter that matter be it's the better. I mall write thanks to my
Lord for his care ; but I know your coufigne William Reid4 is the man. The
chief errand of the bearer is to gett a formal extract of that Vifitation ; there
fore, William muft perfe6l what he hes begunne, and fee yow put him
to it, to command the clerk to provyde with all poffible fpeed ane extract
to him, according to this inclofed forme, or any other that mail be better,
which he will give to my bearer, who waits for it. I lay the charge
on yow and another, and I have done for this time.
We fent to the Chancellor the laft week for ane very ordinarie favour, a dif-
penfation, which any Lord of the Seffion ufes to give to any private gentleman,
for the Commiflioners of Glafgow and Hamiltone to fitt to perfect our decreits
of the Univerfitie of Glafgow, for our teynds and ftipends the laft year, that
wes near a poynt. The Chancellor advyfed, fince he had no power during the
fitting of Parliament, to give in our petition to the Parliament itfelf ; we did
foe, our bill wes read and remitted to the Committee of Bills ; there, for want
of agenting, it wes flighted and refuifed on two falfe narratives : One, that
the people we had to doe with, lay under the feet of the enemie, and could
not appear in Glafgow : This is falfe, for all we have to doe with, are in four
parodies, Kilbride, Govane, Glafgow, and Renfrew, who comes alfe freely
hither as in greateft peace ; neither needs any of them be here to anfwer, for
the decreit we crave is only for forme, wherein is no matter of contraverfie,
but for our ordinarie unqueftioned rents, wherein we are in long ufe of pay
ment. The other information wes, that a partie of the Englifh wes to lye
at Glafgow : This is one, I hope, of the many falfe proffers of the time. I have
knowne when yow have had fldll to help a friend in need, and in his juft
caufe : Try yet if William and my Lord Eglintoune can make a difpenfation
to us, according to our laft week's bill, pafs after our Vifitation. Yow are ane
old mafon, and may be one againe. I take it yow are a good-enough agent
s The Earl of Balcarras ; in like manner he often addressed Lord Lauderdale as John
Reid: Vide infra, p. 155.
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and pockbearer at the Parliament doore, when I have to doe. Send home
the bearer to me with the extract of the Vifitation, and the difpenfation,
and I ftiall fay yow are a good fellow, worthy to be advanced one claffe were
it per folium ; only be warre of Mr. James Guthrie's loope. By all means
efchew new divifions ; keep Argyle by any means poffible ; hot for no caufe
lofle the Kirk, if yow refolve not to lofle yourfelffe : be content to take
what they will give, if yow be not mad.
FOR MR. JAMES BLAIR. MARCH HTH 1651.
JAMES,
YOUR kind letter to me wes very welcome, and allwayes what comes from
yow mail be welcome to me ; read and clofe the inclofed. Mr. James
Guthrie and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie are goeing on with their work to deftroy
our State and rent our Kirk, but we hope it mail not lye in their power. Mr.
Robert Dowglafs, Mr. Robert Blair, and Mr. David Dick, (land very right and
zealous againft their evill way. The moll of the brethren of the Weft are
fallen off them, and more daily will, for their pryde and fchifme will appear
daily more and more intolerable : their only confidence is in Cromwell's vic-
torie, which God avert ; or, if it mould be God's pleafure to try us yet fur
ther, honell men will get from their good God patience and courage, to be
readie to fuffer the mod which tyrants malice can impofe : — thefe things to
yourfelfe. Ufe all diligence by yourfelfe, or any of the gentrie and miniftrie
yow know faithfull and active, to hold your countrey right, and above all, to
get the miniftrie of Ireland well informed. Try if James Wallace, younger
Achans, be to Ireland ; he hes left the King, I fear, for no good offices, he
is poyfoned. For our new fchifme, Mr. John Park lay it on him to gett
all papers : thefe that are good, are Mr. James Wood's, Mr. David Dick's,
Mr. James Fergufone's ; have yow the care to gett them copied and fent to
Ireland. Be not flack as yow love God, the King, the poor Kirks, and King-
domes of the three dominions which are lyke to be caft in a new danger by
our brethren, the imprudence of fome, and malicioufnefs of others. Send
me ane accompt both of your diligence in Galloway and Ireland, and the
condition of both countreys. Your knowledge of the truth hereof may doe
good.
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FOR MR. ROBERT DOWGLASS.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
I HOPE yow have received the packett I fent yow with James Campbell.
On Saturday at even laft, there came a poft to Glafgow from Mr. James
Guthrie to Mr. Patrick, ihewing, that he was to appear before the King and
State on Monday laft, the 10th of this inftant, and for that end defyred the
prayers of the people of God here. Upon this alarum, Mr. Patrick and
Mr. John Carftairs on the Sunday, caft their doctrine on the fuffering of
faithfull minifters, and the great defection of Church and State. On the
Monday, Mr. John Carftairs choifed expreffly the 4th of the Coloffians, the
Apoftle in bonds his defyre of the people's prayers ; and did exhort the
godly to be much in prayer for help to them who were now on the ftage, that
they might carie themfelves honourable, and perfect their teftimonie ; or to
this purpofe : accordingly the moft of that day wes fpent in failing and prayer
by fundry of our beft people, in Mr. Patrick's houfe and other places. On
Tuefday, much confultation wes in Mr. Patrick's houfe how to gett our
Prefbyterie ingadged in a letter to the Commiffion for Mr. James Guthrie.
When we come there, Mr. Patrick prefled a letter exhortatorie of the Com
miffion to fee the Committee of Eftates incroached not on the liberties of the
Church. For a while I intreated fuch motions might be lett alone ; when
intreaties prevailed not, we came to debate it, and after long pleading that
all fuch letters, how fpareing foever, were ane imputation on the King and
State of a high cryme, which were rafhnefs in us to fuppone, not having
heard them firft fpeak for themfelves ; and that it were to give the Commiffion
a needlefs admonition, while our Prefbyterie had given them no fatiffaction
yet for our laft open difobedience to their injunction, which many of us
judged very juft and neceflare ; that our writing wes preffed only to be a
leading cafe to other Prefbyteries to give fome incouragement and counten
ance to Mr. James Guthrie in his contradictions to Church and State, which
we judged very linfull, fcandalous, and dangerous ; which we would not now
debate, hot on a juft occafion were refolved to witnefs againft. Debates
to this purpofe could not obtain a delay to the next meeting, bot it behooved
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to goe to a prefent vote. We knew Mr. Patrick, by the multitude of his
yeomen elders, could carie what he pleafed ; we could doe no more but enter
our diflent, which I did in my owne and for eight more, Matters Ramfay,
Hew Blair, Zacharie Boyd, George Young, Gabriell Cunynghame, Archibald
Denneftone, Robert Young, William Hoome. I fhall doe what I can to
keep other Prefbyteries off yow ; but if the Coramifiion will not in tune look
to fome men's ways and reftlefmefs, the fchifme will get fuch ftrength that
the end may be doolefull. All this to yourfelfe, and to fuch few friends
yow pleafe. The Lord help and dire6l yow.
I defyre not to put yow to any writing but one two lynes, if yow re-
ceaved this and my two former packetts. What ftrange work we had for
the intimation of Strachan's excommunication, I fpeak not till ane other oc-
cafion. Your Warning will never, it feems, come to us, and when it comes,
it will be refuifed, except by diffenters
FOR MR. ROBERT DOWGLASS. APRIL 4TH 1651.
SIR,
I WES refreflied with your kind and large letter, and made the beft ufe I
could of the many feafonable inft ructions therein. However, we expected
not a Synod in tymes and places fo full of danger ; yet I fand our brethren
here had made it foe to have a Synod kept, and by many letters and great
induftrie had conveened from all the Prefbyteries the brethren of their mind
with multitudes of yeomen elders. At the very firft blenk it was apparent
there wes fome defigne in hand. Fearing it before, I had written it before
to fome in all the Prefbyteries, to caufe brethren of their mind keep fo weell
as might be ; but partlie the ftorme of the weather, and partlie the moving
of the enemie, made few from Aire and Dumbartane, whence I expected
moft help, to come in. We purpofed to make Mr. James Fergufone, Mo
derator ; but they carried Mr. Matthew Mowat ; and by this I perceived
clearlie they had gotten fo many fillie yeomen prefently chofen for the pur-
pofe, that they could carie in the Synod whatever they pleafed. They moved
a committee for public! affaires ; fearing the end of it, I oppofed it as need-
lefs ; but it wes voted, and a dozen of their ftrongefl men put on it. I only
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could gett three of my mind on it ; Mailers Robert Ram fay, James Fergufone,
Patrick Colville. The firft thing there Mr. Patrick Gillefpie prefled, wes the
danger from junction with the Malignants, and our deutie about it. Three
or four votes paft direcllie, running towards a new Remonilrance. This long
I keept up the Commiffion's letters, flaying till I fand their defigne, and
then feeing it clearlie, I delyvered the letters whereby I put them off their
purpofe for one night. Mr. James Guthrie wes then lodged with Mr. Patrick,
and Mr. James Durhame alfo, for his familie for the time dwelt with Mr.
Patrick, and Mr. James Naefmith's with Mr. John Carflairs. The Synod
wes putting off the time with ordinarie forms ; but the hearts and eyes of all
wes on the buffinefs of our Committee, for which the Synod at this unfeafon-
able time wes conveened. At our next meeting in the Committee, they pre
tending a rage at the Commiffion's letters, Mr. Patrick, as a moderating man,
proponed from his cabbin-counfell to fend commiffioners from the affemblie,
onlie with fome few inilruc~lions, to crave fatiffa6lion from the Commiffion in
the doubts of the brethren who were diffatiffied. Fearing the defigne after
all the nixt days tough debates, we defy red to fee the letter and inflru6lions
put in forme, that we might judge on them. At lafl they were brought forth :
We fand them very high and injurious to the Commiffion and State ; yet for
peace caufe, and preventing of a rupture, we were content to adjourne the
Synod, to permitt the brethren yet diffatiffied, to fend whom they pleafed to
the Commiffion for conferrence on their doubts ; in the meantime to delay
the faft, and reading of the papers, only we required that the Synod mould
not be ingadged in the diffatiffaclion of the brethren. Thus farre we came
with fome reluctancie of our owne mind, and thereby gained almoil the Com
mittee to our defyre ; but Mr. Patrick, knowing his advantage, wes peremptor
to have the Synod involved in the diffatiffaction, and us in the diffent ; we,
after much toyle, gave over. In the Synod we had long fmitlefs debates on
the overture of laying afide the reading of the Warnings, and delaying the
Faft, adjourning the Synod till the commiffioners returne from the Commif
fion. On the letter, and ftrange inilru&ions, our reafons were long and tough
enough, but calme and without irritation on either hand. At laft I gave in this
diffent, to which diverfe in every Prefbyterie did adhere. Eight commiffioners,
the rigideft oppofers of the union of the forces, were voted to goe to yow,
viz. : Mailers Patrick Gillefpie, James Naefmith, John Knave [Nevay], Gabriell
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Maxwell, Alexander Dunlop, Matthew Mowatt, John Carftairs. Their hope
is to gaine yow particularlie, and a pluralitie of the Commiffion ; when yow for
this conference have appointed it at Stirling, or any near place, and they
brought hither by their follicitation all the members affected to them. If
they faill in this, at the nixt feflion of the adjourned [Synod], expect flrange
work from them : yow had great need to deal prudently in this bufmefs. I
find very many of the minifters of the Synod, who joyned not in our diflent,
to be in their heart for joyning with the armie, notwith (landing of all their
diflatiffaction otherways. I find the body of our people in all our fhyres to
be heartily for the fame conclufion. But Mr. Patrick and two or three
other by their cunning and extreame diligence, are like to involve the
body of the minifters, and, by a little time, of the people, into a remedilefs
diffatiffaclion.
* Having mett after the Synod with fome of the wifeft of our mind
in all our Prefbyteries, I was defyred to have your opinion in fundrie
things. 1. If yow have no power to difcharge this noveltie amongft us,
ane adjourned Synod, or yow think it not expedient to ufe your power to
difcharge it, as being keept of a clear defigne to croffe the publick judica-
tories, whether in that cafe yow think it expedient that we, the diffen-
ters, fhall all be abfent, or fhall endeavour to be fo frequent at it as we are
able ? for yet we are hopefull, upon diligence, if not to carry the Synod, yet
to make our diffent ftronger. 2fy, If this Synod fhall medle to cenfure
Prefbyteries for their obedience to the Generall AfTemblie, or Commiffion of
the Church, if it fhall not be declyned as ane uncompetent judge ? Sly,
If it fhall not be expedient, till that conference end, or till we receave direc
tions from yow, to let alone reading of your papers, and keeping of the
Fafl ? We think if yow write feverallie to Prefbyteries to crave an anfwer
from them of the willingnefs of every minifler to further the leavies and
junction of them with the prefent army, without any more, would draw a
good anfwer from the moft to this maine and principal! queftion, wherein
whoever were not truelie ingadged, and openlie, would fhortlie come to all
elfe required, and prefentlie would fall off the oppofite party. We think a
privat kind of letter from your felfe to Mafters Thomas Kirkaldie, William
Cockburne, and to Francis Aird, for the ingadgeing of thefe three (who,
as we are informed, and I am fure of Mr. Francis, are in their mind for
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joyning in the leavies,) would much help to gett their three Prefbyteries
with us, Lanerk, Ayr, and Hamiltone. Thefe parts of your papers and let
ters which threatened cenfure to our brethren were taken by them in high
difdaine ; and by diverfe others wondered at, that yow would recommend to
Prefbytries and Synods to cenfure any whom the Commiflion wes farr from
beginning a procefs with, the prime delinquents in this kind. We are all
farr from defyreing the leaft trouble to any ; but we think if the Commif-
fion on this occafion declare not their approbation of our diflent, and what
ever fatiffa&ion they may give to our Synod's commiffioners, (which from
our hearts we defyre may be fo great as to gaine them all,) yet if by them
the Commiflion be drawne from any of their juft refolutions, that we who
have been following their directions fo really and prudently as we could, are
fcarce well ufed ; and the body of the countrey which yet are for the way of
State and Kirk, will quickly be in danger to fall off to ane other way. We
fear our brethren have als high thoughts to gett the Kirk and State brought
about to the modell of their Remonftrance as ever, coft what it may to them-
felves, or to whomsoever who flands in their way. See weell to it at this very
time : yow had never more need. If we have any Ikill to difcerne, take
heed what yow grant in changing of the place of the Commiflion ; and in
your meeting of the commiflioners from the Weft, there is hopes of turning
the Commiflion on your owne head. The taking of Eglintone confirmes us
of the great treacherie of thefe about the King. Alace ! that fo good a King
mould have come among us to be deftroyed by our owne hands, moft by
traitors and dividers. What Mr. Durhame minds we know not; in the
Synod, and the Committee, wherein his name wes allways called, and fome-
times he fatt, he wes not againft us ; but if he had been pleafed to have
fyded any wayes with us who were for the Public!; Refolutions, it might
have done us much good. We wifh all our fears of his way may be found
vaine. Faill not to fee Mr. Andrew [Ker] anfwer what I wrote to him in
Mr. James Durhame's matters. I made good ufe of all the papers he fent
me in the time of the Synod : the anfwer to Ayr is excellent. Mr. David
Dick his vindication is very good. Mr. Robert Ramfay hes put out a long,
and as I conceave, a flrong paper. But I hear our brethren puffes at all,
and minds to write no more, thinking their partie faft enough ; but refolvea
to ac~l, and let us be talking.
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I have fent this bearer exprefllie to yow and Mr. Andrew [Ker], to wait
on yow, if need be, for two or three dayes. As yet Mr. Guthrie and Mr.
Bennet hes been quiet among us ; we know not how long it will be foe. I
held up in my hand, in the Synod, the Commiffion's fupplication to the Par
liament, defyring to read it ; and afiuring it would take off much of the
burthen that is caufelefflie laid on the Commiffion ; but this wes refuifed. Re
member, if the brethren in the Weft, (for all their appealls from the Commif
fion, and carying of the Synod againft it, and difobedience to it,) (hall yet be
permitted to litt and vote in thefe things they have preached againft, their
multitude will put yow hard to it. The Lord, who oft hes given yow wif-
dome and courage, defert yow not now. Your Brother,
R. BAILLIE.
[To MR. ANDREW KER, CLERK OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.]
ANDREW,
THESE are thanks for your laft kind long letter. I delivered all the
papers, and followed all the directions ye fent me. I pray yow let me know
who drew the Anfwer to the Prelbyterie at Ayr : I like the hand, be who he
will, exceedingly weell. How all goes here my long letter to Mr. Robert
Dowglafs will (how yow. I have oft defyred, and now againe hes fent this
expreffe, to wait on yow, if yow appoint, for two or three dayes ; and if now
yow cannot, to intreat yow fo foone as yow can, to fend me the full and fub-
fcryveit extracts of what patted concerning our Colledge and its Vifitation in
the laft AfTemblie, efpecially the Vifitors act about our ftipends and filling our
vacant places ; alfo two acts about Mr. Durhame. I pray yow for your owne
advyce, and the brethren's about yow. Mr. James Durhame is prefling him-
felfe in a fair way, directlie and at once, I fear many fhall prefle it for him in
a boifterous way, to be admitted to actuale fervice in the Colledge prefently.
We are here in a great ftraite : I pray yow faill not with the bearer, to fend
us full and free advyce. We conceave Mr. Durhame's fettling in the Colledge
is fo paffionately craved, whileas peaceably he might have a good place in the
towne, for this end chiefly, that by him the mind of our youth may be
framed to the temper fome would be at. We fear his deferting of the King
hurt his Majeftie ; and his coming hither increafe our divifions, and comforts
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and ftrengthens much the faction that profeffe difference from the Public Re-
folutions, though he as yet profeffe none. We believe, and Hill muft doe,
till your extracts or advyce putt us off it, that the General Affemblie did
truely tranfport him from Glafgow to be the Minifter of the King's familie ;
and that the place in the Colledge, to which he wes only deligned, bot never
entered, wes truely vaikeing, to which we did elect Mr. Robert Ramfay ;
and in many (harp debates with the Magiftrates and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie,
have hitherto Hood to this election. But now, when Mr. James himfelfe is
come to plead, that he was not fully tranfported, bot by a pofterior act of the
Affemblie, wes to have his place recognofced in the next Affemblie ; and in
the meane time defyres us to admitt him according to his election, we know
not what to doe. To wrong Mr. Ramfay, ourfelves, and the King, and the
publict, and, as we conceave and fear, the peace of thefe parts, we are loath
to refifl Mr. James Durhame's own defyres and his powerfull follicitors : we
will find it hard enough. But if they would have patience till the Affem
blie, or be content to be directed by the Commiffion, all might be fatiffied ;
but we fear the precipitancie of fome will not let us reft foe long. We
begg your advyce.
April 4th 1651.
FOR JOHN REID ; MY L. L. [THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE.]
LOVING FRIEND,
YOUR kindnefs to the bearer on my token to yow, drawes this from me
now, both for thanks, and renewing of my defy re to yow and your coufine
William, to hear and affift him againe in his honeft affaires. Yow mail have
eight commiffioners from our Synod, the ftrongeft Remonftrants we have,
to give the Commiffion ane affault more, if it be poffible, to winne it from the
Malignant partie that now does poffefs it. I have written my mind fully
about it to Mr. Robert Dowglafs. I have done here, to prevent mifchiefe at
our Synod, what lay in my power, though to fmall purpofe, if my advyces
to Mr. Robert Dowglafs be flighted. MV Lord Eslintone's lamentable fur-
t/
prife confirmes us all in our long fufpitions, that the King, Armie, and State,
if not Church, is in greater hazard to be quickly deftroyed, by villanous
traitors among yow beyond Forth, than either by the Englifh or Scots be-
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fouth Forth. God help us, all of yow are fufpected by diverfe ; treacherie
and divifion is feared will deftroy all. I thought yow had taken fome courfe
to have keept Mr. Durhame there ; but I fee that matter hes been neglecl;-
ed ; for he is here this fortnight, requiring to be admitted to fervice in the
Colledge, wherein he never entered, and, however, wes tranfported from
Glafgow to the King's familie. His comeing hither at this time, by his
flighting there, I think, will prejudge both the King, us, and himfelffe, as
long agoe I wrote fully to your Coufigne. It had been good to have made
no noyfe at all for any caufe now, till God had given us a day of Crom
well. Without this all prefent toyle is vaine ; with this no prefent reft or
filence prejudges any man's affaires, except impatient, ralhe-headie fooles,
or falfe traitors.
Aprile 4th 1651. R. B.
To THE RECTOR [OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW,] G. LOCKART.
HONOURED SIR,
SEEING Providence hes fo difpofed, that according to the meaning of the
Generall Aflemblie, I have gotten fome time's retirement, and thinking it my
duty to fpend that time in the place I (land in relation unto amongft yow, till
the Generall Aflemblie determine in the ultimate judgement of that they re-
ferved to themfelves ; and not having had opportunitie of addrefling myfelfe
to the Moderators, I have thought fitt to communicate my intention to yow
as Re6lor, that fo by yow it being made knowne to them, I may be exonored,
either by undertaking fomething, or abftaining, as fhall be beft for the good
of the Colledge. My purpofe in this is only to teftifie my willingnefs to
doe what lyes in me as duty on the one fide, and to doe it foe as may
prevent any offence which appearing miftakes amongft us at fuch a time
might give. I have chofen writeing therefore, the rather that I might not
appear in this ; and I hope ye will foe do in it as may attaine one, if
not both thefe ends, which is all the defire of,
Your loving friend to ferve yow,
March laft 1651. MR. JA. DURHAME.
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FOR MR. JAMES DURHAME.T
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
I HAVE thought meet to give yow ane accompt of what latelie lies pad
amongft us, being willing to lye under the hazard of your fharpefl cenfure,
upon my experience of your equitie and wifdome, rather than of the more
rafh judgement of fome in whom I have not found any fuch vertue. Some
dayes after my comeing home, the great neceffitie of planting our vacant
places in the Colledge being reprefented to me, by diverfe who under-
fland our affaires beft, a Rector's meeting wes called, and there I mew,
that the fault of not filling our places had not been in us hitherto ; for,
by the laft Generall Affemblie, we were referred, as St. Andrewes and
Aberdeen, to the Commiffion of the Church, whom I knew and had feen
in the cafe of Aberdeen, peremptor not to meddle at all in fuch matters,
for want of the papers which bare the reference, lying for the time in the
befiedged Caftle of Edinburgh ; but now the Commiffion being mailers
of thefe papers, I knew no impediment why we might not proceed to a
planting of our vacant places. 'I was, for my part, the more willing to
make no more delay, being very uncertaine of more free and full meet
ings ; the motion of the enemy, with his head- quarter toward us, being, upon
too great pTobability, daylie expected, which was like to fcatter us afunder
we knew not how long. Hereupon we agreed on the expediencie to fill pre-
fentlie our places, if poffible. Our next debate was upon the places to be
filled : One moved that the Profeffor's place feemed not to be vaiking, yow
being like to returne to it in a fhort time. The Commifiioners of the Uni-
verfitie to the laft Affemblie being required to declare how ye were tranf-
ported, affirmed your tranfportation (as the act about it will mew) was abfo-
lute, and whatever might be faid for Mr. Blair and Mr. Hutchefon, yet
your fubmitting to that act as it was, and according to it having con-
ftantly attended the King's fervice, there could be no doubt of the vacancie
of the Profeffor's place, to which you had never entered. Alfo that your tye
7 A " double" of this letter (Wodrow MSS. Folio Vol. XXV, No. 122,) has furnished
some corrections A few words at the end of it are deleted, and it wants the Postscript.
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to your prefent miniftrie was fuch as the Commifiion of the Church had de
clared to my hearing diverfe times, they were neither willing nor able to un-
loofe. As for any willingnefs in yow to returne to Glafgow, I did believe
yow were very defirous to be freed of that grievous burthen of the King's
miniftrie, and that your inclination was, I conceived, more towards Glafgow,
where God had evidently blefied your labours, than towards any place elfe.
Yet that yow had any inclination to a profeffion in the College, I knew not
at all ; and though both yow and we were never fo willing to any fuch
thing, yet I had no hopes that the Generall Affemblie would ever confent to
tranfport yow back again to Glafgow without his Majeftie's confent, whofe
minifter now yow are ; and that ever he would confent to any fuch thing, I
did not think. Upon difcourfes of this kind we concluded the true vacancie of
the Profeffbr's place. Of the vacancie of the Principall his place, we did not
much debate. Our next queftion was about the prefent election to both thofe
charges. We all agreed that the greateft necefikie for the time was, to plant
the Principall's place ; yet the man whom the mod of us inclyned to name
for Principall not being poflible in our apprehenfion to be gotten before the
Generall Afiemblie ; and he whom the moft of us inclyned to name for the
Profeffion, being like to be obtained at the firfl quarterly meeting of the Com-
mifiion, we agreed to name him prefentlie, and the other thereafter ; foe much
the more, that if we purfued for two at once, we were almoft fure to lofe
the one. In our nomination, upon the fuppofition that your place was truely
vacant, the Rector, the Vice-chancellor, myfelfe, Mr. George Young, Mr.
Hew Blair, Mr. John Young, Mr. William Strang, named Mr. Robert Ramfay,
as the fair fitteit we knew for that charge ; Mr. Richard Robertfone named
Mr. Patrick Gillefpie ; Mr. James Vetch was not ripe to voice any. It was
appointed that we mould goe up together to Mr. Robert Ramfay his houfe,
and give him the call ; and it was laid on me, with one of the Regents, to
profecute the call before the Commiffion of the Church. All this was done
at leafure in three or four hours calme debate, without the leaft heat or noife,
or any offer of a diffent from any. All went up together to Mr. Robert Ram-
fay's, except two of the Regents, who could not in tyme gett their cloaks and
fhoes ; and by the heartie invitation of all, Mr. Robert Ramfay was called.
So we went all home, thinking that matter to be als good as ended.
Early the next morning, I went to the Provoft's houfe, and acquainted
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him with all our proceedings, telling him that our not confulting before hand
the Towne-Counfell in matters of our election, did proceed from tendernefs
of our priviledges, which I knew fome, on their great miftakes of our a&s of
courtefie fometimes before, were inclyning to encroach upon. But before I
could come home, I fand our brother Mr. Patrick, who (yow know) refuifes
to countenance our Univerfitie meetings, who had given to the Re6lor and
fent to the Dean of Facultie a proteflation againfl all we had done, telling
withall that the Generall AlTemblie had not made your place vacant, and that
this was your owne mind, and that ye were refolved (hortlie to come and
take up your place in the Colledge. For the proteflation, I fand nothing in
it confiderable ; however, we mail anfwer it as we may, in time and place
convenient ; for his alleadgeance of the a<5l or mind of the Generall Affem-
blie, if there be any truth in it, we are all miftaken ; hot the act will fpeak
its owne mind. The only thing that flicks with me is, what I heare
alleadged of your owne mind. I heard, indeed, that thefe two moneths
bygone, fome in a way fo clancularie, that no fyllable of it was ever com
municate to any member of the Colledge, was earnefllie dealing to draw yow
from the King back to Glafgow. This dealing, I confefTe, I underflood not,
nor yet doeth ; for however, in my heart's finceritie, I think I am behind few
in the Kingdome in my high eflimation of the grace and gifts of God be-
flowed on yow, and of the fweet fruits are likelie to be reaped of your minif-
trie, wherefoever God mall cafl it, and of the eminent bleffing I would expect
to Glafgow, (which I love above all places,) and to my owne familie, and my
owne foule, if God were pleafed to fix your miniflrie among us ; yet I do really
judge that your leaving of your prefent charge were a more eminent hurt to
the Churches in all the three Kingdomes, by the clear and certain hurt and
griefe it would bring to the King and Court ; alfo the great difreputation and
fore reflection would by it fall on the King in this time when he has no fuch
need, and great flrengthening of their injurious miftakes, who long have
been holding out the hypocrifie and mifdemeanours of the King. I think alfo,
in my heart, if yow were now amongfl us, you would be in great hazard to
be drawne the way wherein many who love yow, and yow love, are deeplie
plunged, which I apprehend were a great hurt both to yow and them, and a
great furtherance of a way which I count finfull and exceeding dangerous ;
and your living in the Univerfitie in that way, I apprehend, would waken
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and greatlie encreafe our now quyet and dung-out divifions. If notwith-
ftanding, in your owne wifdome, yow think fitt to come here, there is a fair
doore opened for your miniftrie in Mr. Robert Ramfay his place ; wherein
yow will have thefe hearty imbracements of us all, even of thofe who are
oblidged now to ftand to the late election of Mr. Robert Ramfay, wherein
they will be exceiding loath and forrowfull to have the leifl juftling with
yow, whom they doe profefle highlie to efteem and love, and are not to pro-
feflTe any thing but what truelie they find in their mind. Thefe are the
mod fecret and true thoughts I have for the time of this whole bufinefs. I
befeech yow, after prayer to God and mature confideration, to fend me
your thoughts lykeways with this bearer, whom I have fent expreflie to
attend your leafure. I hope God may help yow to fall upon expedience
which (hall extricate us from thefe troubles.
POSTSCRIPT.
AFTER all this is written a common feffion was defy red by the Provoft,
wherein he was hot enough ; as in the Toune Counfell before, great difatif-
faction was uttered againft us, as wrongers of yow, as putters of yow from
your place, and clofers of the doore of all hopes of your returne to Glafgow.
The conclufion was a craveing of a conference with the Colledge, where
betwixt him and us was changed much too high and free language ; efpe-
ciallie I confefs myfelfe, being tempted by the needlefs expreflions of fome.
The refult of all wes, we promifed, upon their defire, to furceafe a profe-
cution of the act of our late election till the firft of March, againft which
time both they and we might, we hoped, fullie underiland your mind in the
poynts controverted, and we might gett ane extract of the acts of the late
Affemblie which concerned us. I did oft proteft that thefe might not be
counted to efteem and love yow or the Towne of Glafgow lefs, who thought
in their heart a greater good to yow and Glafgow and all the Churches in
the three Kingdomes, that, while yow lived, yow were fixed to the King's
fide as the AiTemblie had appointed, than thefe who pleaded loudeft for
your returne to Glafgow. However, I was thought by fome to fpeak ftrange
language, yet I fpoke not fo much as I have written to yourfelfe, which I
believe and know does weell ftand with eftimation and affection enough
towards your perfone.
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FOR MR. ANDREW KER.
RIGHT WORSHIPFULL,
WHAT your man promifed me, at St. Johnftone, I wrote for fince to your
felfe, bot yet have gotten no anfwer ; fo I have now fent expreflie to yow
this bearer to wait upon yow ever till he gett thefe papers with which we
have fo much adoe. The extract of all concerns our Univerfitie in the lad
Affemblie, I fhould be very glad of ; but if your man have no leafure in two
or three days to write all thefe things, I befeech yow fend me fubfcribed
thefe papers following : the reference of our vacant places to the Commif-
fion of the Church ; the act of Mr. James Durhame's tranfportation to the
King's familie ; the act of Vifitation of the Colledge of Glafgow ; that part
of the report of the Vifitors whilk concernes our ftipends. Faill not to
fend thefe with the bearer, whom I have directed to wait on yow als long
as yow will. There is great diligence ufed to caufe every one of our Pref-
byteries in the Weft fend in their diffents to the Commiffion after the ex
ample of Stirling. However, the bodie of our people and gentrie, and I
hope minifterie alfo, be for the State and Church's way. The confultation
of the chiefe Remonftrants here are frequent and long : I doubt there is
fomewhat among them which time will bring out ; their bitternefle againll
the pubjick way is great : the fermons and prayers of fome are ftrange.
Communicat the inclofed to Mr. Robert Dowglafs. I pray yow let me have
both your opinions and advyces if we will not be able to carrie our point at
the Commiffion of the Church : I pray yow tell us if ye think our cafe
cleare : I pray yow fend me with the bearer fummonds for Mr. Robert
Ramfay and his parochiners, and all others who has intereft to appear at the
next dyett of the Commiffion, or blank dayes thereafter. If God give us
Mr. Ramfay, I hope we have peace in our Colledge, and be anfwerable for
our fchollers : If Mr. Patrick get his will of us in this our Univerfitie, he
will be their owne to fow what feed in it they like. I hope ye will informe
friends, Meffrs. John Smith, Mungo Law, James Sharpe, your brother, etc.
to help us in our juft caufe : Keep the copie of my letter to Mr. James
Durhame quiet among friends : Let me know the event of the conference.
I would think it expedient, if fo yow think fitt, to communicat this whole
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matter to my Lord Balcarras, with Mr. Robert Douglafs opinion upon it ; for
I verily think, as I have written to Mr. James Durhame himfelf, if Mr.
Patrick prevaile to draw away Mr. James Durhame, it fhall hurt much the
King in his reputation ; it mall ftrengthen much the dangerous faction here ;
it fhall weaken and divide us here in our Colledge and toune : for to help
this I wifhe my Lord did ufe the expedient I propone to him. Read his
letter, clofe it and fend it away, with this bearer, to my Lord wherever he be.
I have directed the boy when he has gotten Mr. James Durhame's anfwer
to come back by yow and Mr. Robert Dowglafs, and to offer yow what
letters he carries to me, or Mr. Robert Ramfay, or the Colledge, that yow
may break all up and confider all. So foone as the boy comes firft to yow,
difpatch him quicklie, that he may goe to Lauderdaill, whom I ufe to call
John Reid, or Balcarras, whom I call William Reid ; yow will tell him
where they and Mr. James Durhame will be found, and where he will
finde yow at his returne from them ; at which time I hope yow will be ready
to difpatch him hither. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie in publick did avow ye would
not fend us the extract of the act of Mr. James Durhame's tranfportation.
I hope neither he nor any other has fo much power with yow as to caufe
yow deny us this duety and juflice.
To [My LORD] BALCARRAS.
MY LORD,
I HAVE thought fitt to acquaint yow with a new fafherie Mr. Patrick
Gillefpie is putting us to in our election of a fucceflbr to Mr. James Dur
hame. You will confider the whole matter8 in the copie of my letter to Mr.
James Durhame and Mr. Andrew Ker, which I hope is communicate to
8 The " whole matter " referred to in these letters, may be briefly stated. Durham, in
July 1 650, had been appointed by the Assembly to attend Charles the Second, as his domestic
chaplain. He was then minister of the Blackfriars Church, Glasgow. About the same time,
when Dickson was translated from the College of Glasgow to Edinburgh, as Professor of
Divinity, Durham was chosen in his stead to be Baillie's colleague ; but he was never in
ducted. Having at length relinquished this charge, in September 1651, on the death of Mr.
Robert Ramsay, (who had shortly before been successively elected Professor of Divinity, and
Principal of the University of Glasgow, but who appears never to have officiated in either capa
city,) Durham became his successor as one of the ministers of the Inner High Church.
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yow. If Mr. Patrick prevail! with Mr. James, I fear it fhall be very pre-
judiciall to the King's reputation, and public! affaires. I fufpect, indeed,
ane of the grounds on which Mr. James hes reafone of malcontentment, is
the neglect of his maintainance. I think he hes his owne burthens on his
lands, befyde that the quarterings this yeare, and fome yeares bygone, hath
made his rent fmall in itfelf, neare to nothing ; he hes a numerous familie,
he hes no ftipend from Glafgow : I fee not how he muft not be ftraitned.
Therefore, in the midft of all the fcarcitie that can be among yow, I advyfe,
that without more delay, in the firft day of Exchequer, yow appoint him
a ftipend at leaft of two hundred pounds, and that Sir Daniel Carmichael
be commanded to furnifhe the firft year of it prefentlie : I believe he will not
be flow to obey that commandment. If this be neglected I think you are
unadvifed and unreafonable, and yow will repent that neglect. If yow have
leafure, write to me how all goes, for I have fent this exprefs to wait on yow.
I find a great enough readinefs in the body of our Toune, and I hope, of all
the Weft, to ryfe for the King, if they might fafely doe it, notwithftanding of
the great labour and diligence of fome to the contrare. Mind Maflie and
England principally. I cannot hear hot your old lethargic lyeth yet upon
yow all, and little of your readynefs for any action comes to our eares. We
cannot heare of any fturring in the King.
FOR MR. ROBERT DOWGLASS.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
FROM our letters and papers to Mr. Andrew Ker, which I pray yow read
and confider, yow will fee our prefent condition here. I humblie intreat yow,
either by your owne letter, or by Mr. Andrew Ker, to give us your particu
lar advyce and opinion. In our judgment our caufe is clear ; if yow think it
will not paffe the Commiffion, as I marvell if it fhould not, on your advyce
we fhall defift. I have directed the bearer, when he returns frae Mr. James
Durhame to come by yow : yow fhall break up and confider what Mr. James
writes to me, to the Colledge, or Mr. Robert Ramfay ; foe we entreat yow to
doe, that accordinglie yow may frame your advice to us. If my heart de-
ceave me not, as many men are deceaved by their owne heart, my intentions
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in all this bufmefle are to prevent hurt to the public!, to the King, to our
Colledge, to Mr. James Durhame, and to Mr. Robert Ramfay his perfone,
which I conceave Mr. Gillefpie's practices, whatever be his intentions, will
draw one quickly by this his polypragmofine. The Lord keep yow at thir
times to be conftant and couragious at thir times for God, and for the
diflrefled lands.
UNTO THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL GEORGE LOCKART, COMISSARY OF GLAS
GOW, AND RECTOR OF THE UNIVERSITY, THE HUMBLE SUPPLICATION
OF MR. ROBERT BAYLIE.
MY LORD,
BEING called by the bedell this morning, at your Lordfliip's command, to
be, prefent at ane meeting of the Univerfitie this afternoone, wherein I un-
derlland the only or chiefe purpofe to be handled is a defyre of the Town's
common feflion, of our concurrence in a letter of invitation to Mr. James
Durhame to returne to his charge here for the time of his permiflion to vaike
from his Majeftie's attendance ; I thought meet to fignifie to your Lordfhip
my thoughts of this meeting. Your Lordfhip is fully acquaint with my mind
in this whole bufinefs. Of my refpects to Mr. James Durhame's peribne, to
his grace and eminent gifts, I hope himfelf doubts not, for he has thefe very
ainplie under my hand latelie. My earned defyre to efchew every word and
deed that may hurt or offend, not only the Toune of Glafgow, and every man
in charge therein, but the meaneft perfone of the burgh, I doe profefle it to
all the world, and I know my heart and intentions ufes not to contrare my
profeflions. I thought we had been agreed, on your Lordfliip's overture, of let
ting our late election lye over intire for the Generall Affemblie, without touch
ing it, to make it better or worfe, directly or indirectly, which yow conceaved
was all the Town had craved, and would give them in all reafon, full fatiffac-
tion. But fince now your Lordfhip is prefled by them to call a meeting for
our concurrence in ane invitation to Mr. James unto his charge here, I am
forced earneftlie to fupplicat the declyning of any fuch meeting, for thefe
reafons following : — 1. Any meeting for this end is like to produce fuch de
bates among us, as in our lad meeting for that fame purpofe were vifible. I
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pafie needlefs and very untymeous heats occafioned through our information,
of exceeding injurious and opprobrious language in the common feffion, againft
the members of our meeting, for doeing that which we conceave duty, with
out any cenfure, at the time or lince, by that venerable meeting upon any of
their members for thefe fpeeches againft us. I remember only the long ear-
neft reafonings there we had from diverfe againft our moft materiall and fun-
damentall privileges of pafling elections to our vaikeing profeffions, by
ourfelves, without the concurrence of the Toune of Glafgow. 2ly, Any
concurrence of ours in the invitation defired, everts our former maturelie
deliberat conclufion of the true vacancie and neceffitie to provide our Divinitie
profeffion, which rubbs on the Univerfitie no fmall difgrace. Sly, Our re
quired concurrence makes us inftrumentall to draw Mr. James Durhame
from the King, which I conceave at this time would be a hurt, and a caufe
of true grief to his Majeftie, and a ground to fruftrate the defire and conclu
fion of the Generall AfTemblie ; in which evills I wilh none of us fhould
have any hand. 4ly, This meeting, I conceave, will make new and farder
divifions, both betwixt the Colledge and Towne, and in the Colledge among
ourfelves, which moft gladly I defyre to have efchewed, if poffible. Sly, This
meeting, I think, will produce that which (hall grieve our Reverend Brother,
and, I fear, may hinder him either now or hereafter among us, as is defired ;
whileas your overture makes a fair way for a prefent invitation of him to the
towne miniftrie ; and after the Aflemblie, if it be found expedient, to fome
place alfo in the Univerfitie, upon a new call, which the precipitancie of fome
men, in my judgement, goes on to croffe fo farr as lyes in them. 61y, This
meeting feems to be contrare to the declared mind of your chiefe afiefibrs,
without whofe confent yow are obliedged, in your Rector's oath, not to pro
ceed in any matter of confequence, as the prefent is one of the higheft.
For thefe and other reafons we have oft fpoken off, I earneftly fupplicat
your Lordfhip would be pleafed to forbear all meeting on this purpofe : and
if, notwithftanding of all my earned and humble defyres, your Lordfhip mail
think meet to proceed, I fhall be forced to proteft in my owne name, and of
all who hes intereft, and are willing to joyne in this or the like proteftation ;
which Supplication and Proteftation your Lordfhip will be pleafed to command
the clerk to enter in the Univerfitie regifter, that it may be forthcoming in
time and place convenient.
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PROTESTATION AGAINST MR. JAMES DURHAME'S INTRUSION.
MY LORD,
BEING called be the beddell to a meeting, wherein I underftand not only
an anfwer is to be given to a letter of our reverend brother Mr. James
Durhame unto your Lordfliip, bot alfo our former acts of filling that place
to which he was defigned, are to be reallie revocked ; I have thought meet
to fignifie, that as I conceave your Lordfhip may not call a meeting for any
fuch purpofe ; for when we mett lad, it wes debated, and, as I remember,
acknowledged, without the contradiction of any, that the Rector in his inau
guration oath Hands obliedged to call no meeting for any matter of weight,
without the confent of his afieflbrs ; and all your Lordfliip's afieffors, as I
iuppone, dhTenting from the calling of this meeting, according to their agree
ment in our lall federunt, after too much debate, in ane act, written with your
Lordfliip's hand, not to meet more upon that fubject till the matter in con-
troverfie were cleared by thofe who had power. This being the cafe^ it feems
that this meeting and your Lordfliip's calling of it fhall not be found juft, nor
at all necefiarie ; if fo be, the overture that I made the other day to your
Lordfhip, which all then prefent did thinke could not faill to fatiffie our
Reverend Brother, if not diverted be other counfell nor his owne, muft yet
be thought upon, which here I repeat, that it may be knowne how farr it is
frae my mind to oppofe any right, yea, any defire of my much beloved and
highly reverenced Brother.
I am firmly enough perfuaded of the Generall Aflemblie's tranflating of him
from any charge he had here to his Majeftie's fervice ; and whatever hearing
of his grievances at the next Generall Affemblie wes promifed, if he fhould
find that fervice too burthenfome, it did not at all import the continuance of
any relation he had to his former miniflrie and charge here, fo as to hinder
the true vacancie of that place in the Colledge ; to which he wes chofen, now
about a year fince, bot never admitted, as all aniongft ns ever are before
they can claime to any right, or any benefite of the place they have been
defigned unto. I am alfo firmly enough perfuaded that our filling of that
place by a new election fliall be found right and legall, and all fruflrating of
that election, direct or indirect, fliall be found wrong and contrare to order.
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Notwithftanding, for our Reverend Brother's fatiffaction, albeit to the Uni-
verfitie's and our own fuffering, in the meantime, we were content not only
to fuperfede all proceeding upon our act till it might be recognofced by thofe
our fuperiours whom it concerned ; bot alfo we did affure we were mod
willing, if by them we mould be found to have miftaken, prefentlie to reclifie,
at our Brother's owne fight, that our error. And though we were, as indeed
we are, very hopefull to be juftified by them in this action ; yet if our Brother
could not be perfuaded to remaine with his Majeftie, which we think the
greater and more generall good, neither to flay in the miniftrie of the burgh,
bot mould be determined to accept a fchool-charge, fo foon as we could be
gotten cleared by any judicatorie of our right and power, we promifed to give
him a fair call, fo farre as lay in us who fpoke to your Lordfhip, to a Divinitie
profeffion among us ; and that to be reckoned not only from the day of his
entrance thereto, bot from any day he thought fitt, were it from his firfl nomi
nation to any charge here. This loving and refpeclfull offer we all conceav-
ed would have fatiffied our Brother fullie. Bot if nothing elfe can give con
tent except a reall and prefent revocation of our former acts, and that with
out the judgement or advyce of any of the judicatories, to which in fuch
cafes we are referred, bot only be your Lordfhip, who is a fworne patrone of
our priviledges, and that in a meeting from whilk the major part of the mem
bers of the Univerfitie, and thefe the mofl confiderable, (except your Lord-
fhip's felffe,) and who are nearliefl intereft[ed] in a bufinefs of this nature, doth
abfent themfelves, and diflents from it, and what may follow on it, as contrare
to their former acts, and the refolutions of the Colledge in diverfe full meetings
of all its members : alfo of the very few who I think mall be prefent : the
greater part being thefe who are lefle confiderable, and whofe charge is yet con
troverted, as ftanding under a formall appeall, in the hands of the lafl AfTemblie,
yet undifcuffed. So that their meeting, if any mould, would be illegall, and
what it could doe upon this ground alone, would be of no effect as being
done, a non habentibus poteftatem in this cafe. I therefore doe deprecate
fuch a proceeding ; and if no intreaties can be heard, I protefl againft it,
upon the alleadged reafons, and what farder are in my former proteflation.
This write I hope your Lordfhip will be pleafed to keep in retentis, that it
may be forthcoming before competent judges, in time and place convenient.
April 7th 1651. R. B.
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FOR MY LORD BALCARRAS. APRILE I?TH 1651.
MY LORD,
MY advyces to John and William Reid, in my two or three laft letters,
whether they were received or not, I know not. This is for a particular
which your Lordfhip will anfwer with this bearer, or when it's ready, by
Mr. Robert Young. Yow gott us a Vifitation of our Colledge, as I defyred ;
but one claufe in it made it improfitable, which now yow rnuft help, it lafled
bot to the nixt feflion of Parliament, fo it's expired this day. You mud
obtain the renewing of the former Commiffion of vifitation of the Colledge of
Glafgow, to continue till it be recalled, or at leaft till the next trienniall
Parliament, or fome longer than to the next feflion, which may be too fliort
a •time ; and fo much for this. What wifdome is it in yow to put the Church
to a prefent declaration of their mind in the Act of Claffes ? Are our
friends fo foolifhly impatient as not to wait fome little time ? Why reft they
not content with what they have gotten, above their expectation, till they
have made fome ufe of it ? If they beat Cromwell, doubt they to obtaine
all their defyre ? If they be beat of him, whatever they gett, can it any
wayes profite them ? By their rafhnefs they have made fuch a committee
for the armie, which they muft either correct, to the fmall reputation of their
wifdome, or loffe the Church. Are they fo wife alfo as to force the Church,
either to eftablifh the Act of Clafles by a favourable declaration for it, or by
a diffavourable declaration on it, fuch as I think it weell deferves, to hazard
a new ftrengthening of the Remonftrants, by adding to them the late dif-
fenters in Parliament, and a good part of the armie, and to raife fuch new
confufions as, at this nick of time, may deftroy all our affaires. When wife
men act fuch things as evidently are productive of fuch effects, let them
be content to be efteemed, by all beholders, reall plotters and defigners of
fuch ends, deny and men fwear them as they will. Union at this time, by
all means, is needfull. Keep the Kirk and Argyle, on any condition, or elfe
fpeak it out, that yow refolve and have plotted to ruine the King and your
Countrey, for bad ends.
Aprile l?th 1651. R. B,
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ANE INFORMATION OF THE TRUE GROUNDS AND CAUSES OF THE LATE TUMULT
IN GLASGOW, WEDNESDAY APRILE 30TH, AT THE VERIE TIME OF CROM
WELL'S REMOVEALL. 1651.
1. IMMEDIATELY after the defeate at Hamiltone, the Garifon there fent to
the Magiftrates of Glafgow to pay a Cefle, under the paine of prefent plunder
ing and facking.
2. The Magiftrates did all leave the Towne, without any care of their
charge, or of the wellfare of the people, in that extreame danger.
3. The bodie of the people in that neceffitie did meet and appoint a Com
mittee of a few of thefe they conceaved wifeft and free of all blemime for
Malignancie ; for of them all, they were only two that ever had been queftion-
ed for that fault, both whereof had given all fatiffaclion, and the one at the
tyme of the Tumult wes out of the towne.
4. That Committee, by the means of the ordinarie Excyfe and a fmall con
tribution, by the knowledge and tollerance both of Kirk and State, did week-
lie pay the Cefle, with the good likeing of all the Towne, and allowance of the
Magiftrates themfelves, from December to the end of Aprile.
5. All the moneys they intromitted with, were regiftrate and diftribute
by a prefident chofen every fortnight for that effect ; and fo clear ane accompt
wes ready allwayes to be made, without one penny taken by any of them for
their paines in collecting or diftributing or attending that fervice, that the
bodie of the people were exceedingly fatiffied with their labours.
6. But thefe who wont to manage the Excife in fome part, as wes thought,
for their owne and their friends advantage, grudged to fee that mean of pro-
fite in any other hand than their owne, and were preffing the Magiftrates to
put the manageing of the Excife in the former hands, who had never made
fo cleare ane accompt of their diftributions as the Commonalitie did wifh.
7. The Committee, finding themfelves in pofleflion, not only by the earned
defyre of the people, and avowed allowance of the Magiftrates, but by the
approbation, as they conceaved, of King and Parliament, were not willing to
be put by violence from that charge, which neceffitie and love to their poor
neighbours had put upon them.
8. At laft on Tuefday morning laft, Aprile 29, before fermon, the Provoft
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John Grahame, and Clerk Mr. John Spreule, fent for John Wyllie, the Pre-
lident of the Committee ; and when he came, defired, he and the Committee
might defift from medleing further with that Excife, as belonging now no
wayes to them but to him and the Magiftrates, to be difpofed on as they
thought expedient. The other refufeing on diverfe reafons, it went to
hot words ; and when the Provoft publicity at the crofs, under Cromwell's
guard in the Tolbooth, wes pleafed to call the Prefident of the Committee a
knave and villaine, and command him to ward, and laid himfelff hands on
him to take him to ward without all order or procefs of law ; he lykewayes
laid his hand on the Provoft' s cloake, and faid, he charged him to ward for
wronging the Committee of the commonalitie. In all this William Wodrow,
late prefes of the Committee, did countenance John Wyllie.
9. Immediately after fermon, the Provoft and Clerk calls the Minifters to
gether, declares the great affront they had gotten, crave their advyce in the
matter. Mr. James Durhame, Mr. John Carftairs, Mr. George [Young] and
Mr. Hugh Blair's unanimous opinion wes, that it wes beft, while the enemie
wes in the place, to lay afide the whole matter, to be cognofced upon in a more
n'tt time. Mr. Robert Ramfay and Mr. Robert Baillie were abfent. But Mr.
Patrick Gillefpie did fay,3 this wes according to his former difcourfe very
public!;, wherein he had faid. By thefe incentives, and other confultations
that day keeped betwixt the Provoft, Mr. Patrick and the Clerk, John Wyllie
and John Wodrow were fummoned to appear before the Towne-Councell
the day following, Wednefday before noon.
10. At that time the Engliih were removeing, and the towne in a ftirre.
Yet they appeared before eleven at the place appointed ; and attending long,
at laft they fend in word by officers, once and againe, that they were prefent
ready to anfwer. In the meane while the Provoft comes out, and walking
a while befide them, goes in againe.
11. The Councell, fo foone as they fat downe, finding the parties fummon
ed not to appear ; without any delay, or calling of them when they were ad-
vertifed of their prefence, inflidls on them the moft rigid fentence they were
able, decernes their freedome and burgeffhip to be cried downe, as of men
unworthie to live hi the towne, having affronted the Magiftrates contrare to
their oath ; alfo decernes them to be commanded to ward.
5 In this place there must have been some words omitted by Baillie's amanuensis.
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12. The Magiftrates and Counfell comeing out of the Church finds the
parties, with other three of the Committee with them, walking in the Church
yard, and without any intimation of their fentence, paffes by them downe
the ftreets towards the Tolbooth, backed not only with all the Counfellors,
hot alfo the moft of all the five Seffions who were of their mind, and the
moft of the affociat troupe, who it feems upon [fore-warned] defigne were
waiting on, and came out, in fours and fives, out of diverfe clofes to attend
the purpofe in hand.
13. The five young men went downe the way peaceablie at their back
without one word, till the Clerk, feeing his back [ing] great, cryed out, to lay
hold on thefe men and carie them to ward ; at the hearing whereof they,
lifting their hats, went by the company foftlie towards the Tolbooth. When
they were come there the Provofl and Clerk commanded the officers to carie
them to prifone, they alleadged the Provoft had no power to put any burgefs
in prifone, who wes willing to anfwer to their court according to law, while
they are not heard. But the Provoft and Clerk continues verie paflionatlie
[for] the officers to lay hands on them. The people flockt about, and a
noife begins.
14. The officers not dareing to obey the magiftrates, Matthew Wilfon laid
hands on William Wodrow. Upon this, his brother Adam Wilfon, towks
him, calling him a foole, and bidding him defift ; wherefore Matthew falls a
ftriking his brother Adam, and a number falls by the eares, ftriking one at
ane other with their hands, without any weapons ; but no man offered a ftroke
either to the Provoft or any of the Baillies. In the meane time the Englifh
comes in with their fwords and piftolls, and fcatters them all.
15. The chiefe caufe of all what hes paft, and yet is like to pafle on this
fubjecl;, many lays it on Mr. Patrick Gillefpie and Mr. John Spreull.
16. All the premifes are offered to be verified by fufficient witnefies.
INFORMATION TO MR. G[EORGE] YOUNG. [MAY] 1651.
THAT this unhappie rupture grow no worfe, my opinion is, yow caufe your
Committee meet, if it may be, at feven hours : have a letter and a boy ready,
that their firft action may be to fend for John Bell peremptorilie to be at them
164 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1651.
on the fight thereof. If the letter be to be framed, and the boy to be fought,
till the committee meet and ryfe, he cannot be here this night. See prefently
Wyllie be not away. Let them appoint two of their beft fpokefmen to goe
to all the minifters with a true, fhort, clear information. They muft informe
the States in wryte. See if they can now prepare a wryte which all of them
can approve as true, which neither by witnefles nor their owne contradictions
can be oppugned. See if, before meeting, yow and ane other can frame a
draught. If yow decline, or complaine of any, fee yow can prove alleadge-
ances. In your fupplication to the Minifters fpeak with all reverence and
humilitie; cleare the queftion to be meerly civile, depending before the State;
intreat they would not predetermine ; That the violence wes ufed is much
to their griefe ; That the clerk and others were the occafioners, beginners,
and authors of it ; That they are not for contemning of magiftrates, either
their perfones or places, but when violence is offered to their perfones pub-
llctlie, contrare to the lawes and cuftomes of the burgh, if the perfones of
magiftrates in the others juft defence fuffer any affront, it's no more than
themfelffes profefs to be juft in the higheft magiftrates, the King and Parlia
ment themfelffes ; That they are farr from defireing the magiftrates to lay
down their place : this is ane unjuft fclander ; they defyre no more, hot
as they are moil willing and ready, in a clear accompt, to (hew not only to
them who have intereft to crave ane accompt, bot to all the world, that all
the moneys they have receaved are truely deburfed for the relief of the
Burgh, and no fexpence of them is taken to their owne ufe nor the ufe of
any of their friends ; fo it might be the Magiftrates pleafure to (hew to thefe
who are intereft, that the very great foumes of moneys which have been this
while bygane taken up, are truely debuifed for the reliefe of the Burgh,
and no confiderable part of them intervertit to private ufes : Alfo to fett
doune a cleare way for time to come, how it may be feen that all public!;
moneys may be beftowed on public!: ufes alone ; and no part, or no more
than needs muft, on collectors or any others, at lead not without the know
ledge and confent of the Deane of Guild, and Deacon Conveener's courts ;
That the Commonalities proceedings wes, on meer neceffitie, for the faving
of the Burgh's deftruction, on the Magiftrates deferting of their charge with
out any neceffitie ; That in their proceedings they were weell allowed, firft
by the Magiftrates themfelves ; then, as they conceave, by the King and Par-
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liament ; alfo by the body of all the people, whom they ferved with great
toyle to themfelffes, and no gaine at all. Why, while Cromwell is in towne,
a quarrell fhould be pickit, and fo eagerlie preffit, they marvell, lince they
were allwayes willing that any who had intereft, efpeciallie the King and
State, which then wes very near, fhould, by the leift lignification of their
pleafure, have them moft readie to give over their bypaft very troublefome
imployment ; albeit they were not willing to be commanded and threatened
by them, whom they conceived to be direct parties in this caufe, and that for
fomething elfe than what looked towards the public!; good, either of the
Kingdome or of the Town of Glafgow, at this time groaning under the feet
of a publift enemy, when they conceived it very unfeafonable to trouble the
Town with needlefs quarrells.
While they are gathering, be yow and fome one or two thinking of fome
fuch paper. As yow would not wrong me, let no flem fee this paper, or
know of my name. Have one ready in the afternoone to carry all paffes
this day to Robert Marfchell. Bring or fend this to me foe foon as yow can.
Yow had need be wife and diligent. Let their Commiffioners, if they can
be readie, goe to Mr. Robert Ramfay and Mr. James Durhame before nyne :
neither of thefe will be in Church.
FOR MR. ROBERT DOWGLASS. APRYLE 1651.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
FOR preventing of miftakes, we have thought meet to advertife yow, that
Cromwell, haveing come to Hamiltone on Fryday late, and to Glafgow on
Saturday, with a body of his armie, fooner than with fafety we could weell
have retired ourfelves ; on Sunday before noone, he came unexpectedlie to
the High Inner Church, where quietlie he heard Mr. Robert Ramfay preach a
very good hoiieft fermon, pertinent for his cafe. In the afternoon, he come als
unexpectedlie to the High Outer Kirk, where he heard Mr. John Carflairs
lecture, and Mr. James Durhame preach, graciouflie and weell to the times
as could have been defyred. Generallie all who preached that day in the
Towne gave a fair enough teftimonie againfl the Sectaries. That night, fome
of the armie wes trying if the miniflers would be pleafed, of their own ac-
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cord, to conferr with their Generall. When none had fliewed any willing-
nefs, on Monday, a gentleman from Cromwell come to the mod of the Breth
ren, feverallie defyring, yea, requyring them, and the reft of the minifters in
towne, to come and fpeak with their Generall. All of us did meet to ad-
vyfe ; and, after fome debate, we were all content to goe and hear what
would be faid. When we come, he fpoke long and fmoothlie, fhewing the
fcandale himfelffe and others had taken at the doctrine they had heard
preached ; efpeciallie that they were condemned, 1ft, As unjuft invaders :
2. As contemners and tramplers under foot of the ordinances : 3. As per-
fecutors of the minifters of Ireland : That as they were unwilling to offend
us by a public!; contradicting of us in the Church, fo they expected we
would be willing to give them a reafon when they craved it in private.
We fhew our willingnefs to give a reafon either for thefe three, or what elfe
was excepted againft in any of our fermons. The time appointed for this
was this day, at two o'clock, at Cromwell's lodgeing. But this morning he
fent us word, it would be to-morrow, at that fame time and place, he would
attend us. We truft, by the grace of God, to fpeak nothing for the difad-
vantage of the truth and caufe in hand. Let the Lord make of this what
he will : we had no mind to beginne, and have no pleafure to continue,
any conference with any of thefe men ; but all of us conceave it was un
avoidable, without a greater fcandale, to do what we have done. The Lord
be with yow.
Your Brethren, the Minifters on the place.
[Glafgow,] Aprile 22d 1651.
FOR JOHN OR WILLIAM REID.S MAY SD, SATURNDAY, 1651.
SIR,
THE enemie's motion from us was on no want ; for, contrarie to all ex
pectation, they fand provifions hereabout both for foot and horfe, which we
and they conceaved might have lafted them longer. It was packetts from
Edinburgh, or England, the day before that put them to this haftie departure.
We think, by weekly printed invitations, yow would [fhould] be drawing the
9 That is, for the Earl of Lauderdale or Lord Balcarras : Vide p. 155.
1651. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 167
Englifh over : many of them incline to the King I affure yow. Take heed to
Tuefday's conference of the commiffioners of our Synod with the Commiflion :
I am feared for its iflue, and expects no good from it. The King and all
his friends has need to look to it, that the Commiflion be not, by fome men's
legerdemain, drawne to alter former conclufions, and put all to a new confu-
lion, both in State, Kirk, and Annie. If yow neglect this warning now,
blame not me hereafter.
The other day, betwixt our Towne-Counfell and Committee of Com-
monaliti.e, there fell out a very foule toyllie [tuilyie] : yow had need to take
heed to it. By him I recommendit to yow before, or fome other, yow will
get full information of it. See that they gett no wrong by the too great
diligence and mifinformation of fome who moft cordiallie mind the King
and weell of the public!. I hope Argyle, and the Chancellor, and fome
others, are fo wife and juft as not to be over-fweyed with any man's
report, till all be tryed to the bottome. 1 am not fo feared for Mr. Patrick
Gillefpie's diligence as Mr. James Durhame's recommendation. If yow
look not carefullie to this buflinefs alfo, yow defert your friends in the time
of their need, for your own hurt. Give a fair hearing, and judge rightlie,
and we crave no more.
Your Servant,
JAMISONE.
The King and Balcarras would be ferious with Mr. Robert Dowglafs and
Mr. James Wood, and Mr. Robert Blair if prefent, that they may be fixed.
See for no caufe yow lofe the Kirk nor Argyle. I hope David Leflie be
very fure for King and countrey : fee it be fo, whatever the world fpeak of
him and others.
FOR MR. ANDREW KERR.
ANDREW,
YOUR packett of Aprile 25th came to my hand this morning, being dely-
vered yefterday afternoone, in Stirling, to one of our common carriers. Im-
mediatelie I fent up to Mr. Patrick Gillefpie your anfuer to the Moderator
of our Synod, and your's to Lanark I mall fend with the firft occafion. For
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all the letters and exprefle meflengers 1 have oft fent to yow for the extracts,
yow fend me nothing bot falfe promifes ; therefore, once againe, I earneftlie
entreat yow will be at the paines to fend me thefe extracts fubfcryved : both
I myfelfe, and our Colledge, and fome more of our dear friends, have very
much need of them. At lead, let me have the extracts of what concerns
the provifion of our vacant places, our ftipends in the report of the two
Vifitations, and the Aflemblie's acts concerning Mr. James Durhame. If at
lad yow will not beftow foe much time on your too good friends, I will fay
yow have little regard to them, and yow are looking over the dyke to follow
the Remonftrants ; for that's the way to thrive; and better for- yow to
thrive late than never. I am fure our Synod has gotten a fyne beginning of
their defyres : the place and perfons of a committee as they would have
wifhed. I wifli a good agreeance ; but I hope the Commiffion will be loath,
for their fatiffaction, to put the State and Armie in a new confufion, by alter
ing of their former grounds : we repent, if this advyce was not good. I fent
to yow and Mr. Robert Dowglafs, by Mr. James Hamiltone, Mr. Robert
Ramfay's large treatife : of the receipt of it, our brethren's like or diflike,
yow write nothing. How our conference with Cromwell was contryved, or
for what ends, I may weell guefs fomething, bot can affirm nothing : it was
foe put on us, that we could not decline it. Yow will fee the fumme of it,
drawne by Mr. James Guthrie and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, the maine fpeakers :
We had no difadvantage in the thing. The tumult of Glafgow, procured
by the rafh and headie counfell of fome, might have drawne to great ill, had
not the Englifti been very feafonable redders. Matters will not reft here if
the infolencie of fome be not compefced : believe not all you hear till both
parties be heard. I purpofe not to meddle with that matter, bot I doubt not
yow will hear too much of it. Yow tell not what the Commiffion did at
Falkland : let me hear from yow. Your prefs is exceeding flow : I think,
before this, the Commiffion's anfwer to Stirling and Ayre, Mr. David Dick's,
Mr. Robert Ramfay's, and Mr. James Fergufone's papers might have been
printed ; and fome invitation to the Englifli to leave Cromwell, whither
many of them doe incline : mend this.
Your Brother,
R. B.
Fryday, May 2d 1651.
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FOR MR. [ROBERT] DOWGLASS.
SIR,
I HOPE yow faw what I wrote the other day to Mr. Andrew Ker. I have
now little to adde, hot that the courteffie of your letter to Mr. Patrick
Gillefpie has made him fpeak fince to his friends with great chearfulnefs
and confidence, and this day and yefterday to preach als largelie and boldlie
againfl the Publick Refolutions as ever. Whereupon I conclude, that his
and the reft of their refolutions who are comeing along with him, is to be
firme to their principles, and that their endeavours will be to gaine the con
ference to them, either all or fome. I hear they have adjourned againe
our Synod, of purpofe that themfelves, and all more of the Weft they can
make, may attend the quarterlie meeting, and either mifcarrie it, or if a
pluralitie of others, (diverfe whereof they fpeak of as they pleafe,) mould
carry it againft them, yet they may make fo loud and confiderable a partie
as may give life to their defignes, that we believe be als high and danger
ous as ever. We marvell ye have put not one man of all the Weft on the
conference ; bot we know your wifdome, and therefore moft fecurelie we
acquiefce in it ; only all here in your mind defires me to tell yow their opi
nion, with fubmiffion, that they conceave it very unexpedient to tranflate the
conference to St. Andrewes. We who know them better than yow, think
none of them is to be gained one hair-bread ; bot we fear if they gett yow
to St. Andrewes, they will gaine on diverfe men more than (hall be conve
nient. If yow keep ftill at Stirling, our Synod may be keeped ; yow may be
quate of them at your quarterlie meeting, or we at our Synod : doe what
yow think expedient. We know other men's obftinacie will make none of
yow unconftant ; and if all your courtefie will draw none of them to their
duetie, that yow will not faill from your quarterlie meeting to write to our
Synod or feverall Prefbyteries to doe our dueties, in keeping at leaft the
Faft, and reading your Warnings; and if it be your will to let our pulpits
beat [on] one another, and moft boldly the Kirk and States juft proceedings
to be preached and prayed againft, and doe nothing at all but bid Prefby-
tries cenfure thefe great men, we will not now fpeak out what the world
about us muft think of fuch a proceeding. We are for the time a little
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feared for the iflue of this conference, but our truft is in God, and in
your oft-tryed wifdome.
Your Brother,
Tuefday, May 6th 1651. R. B.
This bearer will wait on till yow caufe fome about yow wryte fomething
to me how to guard, the bed I can, againft the evill of our Synod, according
to the inftru&ions I expect from yow.
FOR [THE EARL OF] LAUDERDAILL.
MY LORD,
I HOPE yow read what twyce or thryce I wrote lately to John and
William Reid ; yow have here the double of my lad to Mr. Robert
Dowglafs, and of my former to Mr. Andrew Ker. I advertife yow this
once more, as yow mind the King, or the Armie, or the Kirk, look to this
conference ; it's a mafter piece of your bufinefs, as I conceave. The prefaces
to it, the perfons of the committee, and privat letters, makes Mr. Patrick
very high : if it lye in your power let not the meeting be transferred to St.
Andrews. Doe not dreame by your conference to gain any of them, only
guarde yow loffe none of your friends, and fee that they who refolve to differ
gett no more by their journey to joyne with them. Succeffe is from God,
wife going-about a buflinefs is from the parts God hes given, but if I find
yow carelefs to ufe diligentlie all poflible endeavours, be content to have me
one witnefs of this fault in yow ; which fome will fwear can be no lefs
than deep treacherie and high treafon, which if yow and your Coufigne, my
friend, will wittinglie be guilty of, pardon me no more to truft men on
earth. I advyfe yow to fee it gone reallie about, that your fojours be more
civill ; their open prophanitie and cruell oppreffion among our people, makes
the Englifh more lowlie [lovelie]. Alfo do not provoke nor make defperate
the Remonftrants ; guard againft their defignes with all care, but wrong and
hurt no flefh without clear caufe.
Your Friend,
May 6th 1651. R. B.
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[POSTSCRIPT.]
OUR Provoft's1 letter to the King, which we doubt not was penned in Mr.
Patrick's houfe, I wifh yow fent a copie of it. See if a committee of two or
three might be fent here to try that whole bufinefs ; hot fee well to their choife.
Let them have power to take ane accompt not only of the excife, but all
taxations and publick moneys for two or three years, to try the receipts and
dilburfements, alfo complyance with the enemie. Let Mr. John Smith, and
ane other minifler, come along to try Mr. Patrick's part ; there will be many
witnefTes in that bufinefs that cannot come along ; or if this way fliall not be
found fitt, but yow think fitt the principall parties be fummoned before your-
felf, give power to the minifters here to examine witnefles. If yow lay
this matter altogether afide, I fear they fhall make a clamour of it againfl
the King, as unjuft and unwilling to protect magiftrates when oppreft by
malignants, a falfe calumnie in this cafe. If your committee for this be no
better than that of our conference, I am glad I have nothing to doe with
them. Farewell. Doe me the favour to putt all my letters in Vulcan or
honed Jacchaeus's cuftodie.
Why hes not every regiment a minifler ? Why is there no Prefbyterie in
your armie ? Had you ever fo many minifters out of charge ? I like weel your
delay of fighting, if yow could keep up' your armie, but beware it melt not,
and the countrey faint not under its oppreffion. Why train yow not your
fojours, and day lie exercife them ? Upon the hudge large quarters of the
enemie will yow make no infall ? I think Mr. James Durhame will come
along to the conference, contrare to my advyfe, and without, (as he fayes
to me) any invitation from any there : I feare his accommodations more
than all the eight commiflioners violence. I doubt not hot Robert Mar-
fchell has informed yow of Lambert's fecret letters to fome here, and of
our fears for Dumbartane. If yow be not afTured of the honeftie and
watchfullnefs of the men (for courage they need none,) who are intruded
with that place, fome of yow are unworthie the truft the King and State
have given yow. My laft word to yow is, lofe not the King nor Argyle in
any termes.
1 John Graham, Provost of Glasgow.
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FOR [THE EARL OF] LAUDERDAILL. MAY 12xH 1651.
MY LORD,
THE honed man John Reid's canker at me, and his coufignes William alfo, I
take in good part ; for my jealoufie of them, and theirs of me, comeing all out
of mutuall love to a third, whom all three minds truely to ferve ; and Jame-
fon, the third, als much in his ftation as either of the former two, or any who
goes on Scots ground, to his underftanding and pith : this being, we will
pack up all our pleas till Cromwell be difpatched, and then have with yow
both. However, I befeek yow look well to this conference, whether they goe
to St. Andre wes or Perth. For the quarterly meeting I am much afrayed
for the event of it, that if fome of yow there with all your witts watch not
over it, it produce great harme both in Church, State, and Annie ; I mould be
glad herein to be miftaken. For our Glafgow bufiness, I thank yow heartily
for the favor thefe I recommended to yow has gotten ; I muft ftill in-
treat yow to favour them fo farr as yow find equitie on their fide. If my
mind had been followed, yow at fuch a time (hould not have been troubled
with that buflinefs ; and fo foon as reafon can be gotten, if my opinion be fol
lowed, yow (hall be no more famed with us. Fear from fome of yow, and coun-
fell from fome of us, hes made our Magiftrates inclineable to give to your fup-
plicants much of their defyres, and all I fufpect they mail obtaine from yow,
after much toyle both to yow and themfelves : If they truely can gett this, I
think, after their agents hes fpoken with yow, and approven to yow their pro
ceedings, they are unwife to refufe it. Without all prejudice to the King
and State, at a much more convenient time, they may call any here they think
fitt to ane accompt, either for publick moneys, or complyance with the enemy,
or whatsoever fault elfe can be made good againft them.
While I had written this farr I find that fome incouragement, as it feemes,
from your act, hes made our Magiftrates fo high that accommodation here is
impoflible, hot when they come among yow I hope it (hall be more feafible.
If I come to fee yow I hope to be welcome, were it to fpue all my gall in
your bofome, for [comfits] yow will have none ; however, wherever I be, I
pray yow, firft and laft, mind the Church conference and Commifiion.
Your's, S. J.
1652. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 173
FOR MR. D. DICKSONE. FEBRUARY 24xn 1652.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THE mofl of thefe we expected mett in Edinburgh, Mailers James Wood,
David Forreft, Robert Kerr, etc. After prayer and deliberation, we refolved
on the neceffitie of a Warning and Teftimonie, defections being fo ryfe, and
dangers fo evident ; but to make it more effectual!, we thought fitt to invite
our diffenting brethren to joyne with us in it, the duetie being uncontrovert-
ed, and confefled to be neceffar. If we joyned in this, it was a ftep to further
[union] ; if this wes refufed, we had little hope to joyne in hafle in any thing elfe.
We fand the chiefe of them in toune, at a ferious meeting among themfelves,
Mailers John Livingilone, Patrick Gillefpie, James Guthrie, Wariilone, Sir
John Cheiflie, Brodie, etc. : they had made animadverfions on the Englifh
papers, which were communicat to Finnik [Col. Fenwick] ; bot we could not
fee them. They profeffed all to be als much againfl the Englifh as we could be,
yet they were not pleafed one of them to open their mouth to any of us ; bot we
behooved to feek to them, which we did without any grudge. Mr. George
Hamiltone and I were fent to Mr. Hew M'Kell and Mr. George Hutchefone,
to defyre them to propone our motion to Warriilone, or to whom elfe he or
they pleafed : they undertook this very cheerfully, and defyred me to fpeak to
Brodie, whom they had oft found on the fame thing. I did fo, and he pro-
mifed to joyne in dealing effe6luallie for it. The iiTue wes, Warriilone, Mr.
Gillefpie, and Mr. Guthrie, mett with them, and after a long debate, gave
them a ihifting anfwer ; that their meeting wes diflblved, and the brethren
gone home, and they could fay nothing, though none of note wes gone but Mr.
John Livingilone, and their chieff men were all prefent. This dealling did
grieve us all, and made us fee more of the progrefs and incurablenefs of the
fchifme. For all this we would not give over ; we agreed to the materialls
of a Warning which we fent to Mr. Blair, to be put in forme, and to go alongs
the Preibytries fo foon as may be. I drew them fo that no word of them
mould be offenfive ; fo our brethren and we deiired Mr. Blair to be carefull
that in his draught there mould be no word to irritate, hopeing, when it comes
to the brethren in Preibytries, they will be loath to diflent and oppofe alone,
174 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1652.
for our defect, that we cannot confefle fuch guilt as they will have to be on
us without conviction. We eftablifhed a correfpondence betwixt the Prefby-
tries of Edinburgh and St. Andrewes, and, in the mean tyme, drew a fhort
direction for brethren's carriage, and advice to people, efpeciallie commif-
fioners of fliyres and burghs. I have no time to get thefe things doubled
for yow now. All the miniflers of Edinburgh prays flill for the King, and
preaches very freely and zealouflie againfl the way of the Englifh : this they
are very angry at, and threatens to remeed it. They impute much of this
to Wariftone, who, on the advyce of friends, is gone out of the toune. Good
Sir John Seaton wes the firft that fubfcribed his free and willing acceptance
of the incorporation for Eaft Louthian. The two Swintons followed for the
Merfe, Stobs for Tiviotdale, Dundas for Weft Louthian, William Thomfon
and Fairbairne, I think, have done the like for Edinburgh, and it's like al-
moft all burghs and ftiyres will, under their hand, renounce their Covenant :
Glafgow and the Weft purpofes to refufe, for which we are like deeply to
iuffer ; but the will of the Lord be done. Yow (hall hereafter hear what I
know. I expect no fatiffaction to your defyre from Edinburgh. It were
good ye were at a poynt what ye will doe for us. The Lord direct yow.
My fervice to Margaret.
Your Brother,
R. BAILLIE.
Mr. Robert Dowglafs and all our brethren are in health and courage.
God is with them. They allure us the King goes to Charrantone to fer-
mon, and hes put forth a declaration for the Covenant.
FOR MR. BAYLIE. MARCH 23D 1652.
MY REVEREND AND WELL BELOVED BROTHER,
THE longer brethren live at diftance, they will fee the greater necefiitie to
unite in the Lord. Ye fee what a wicked complyance is made with our op-
preflburs, and how our Solemn League and Covenant is groflly violated by
this fubfcription. In the defection of fo many, the {landing out of your Com-
miflioners wes fingular. Ours began well ; a great part of the inhabitants
1652. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 175
had fubfcribed a letter to their Commiffioner, forbidding him to fubfcribe
that tender as they call it ; but danger being reprefented, they fainted. We
hear that with yow there is a partie of them that never was gracie, and I
think never will be, who inclyne flrongly to goe on in the common byaffe ; I
fear they were too much countenanced the laft year. Oh ! the nakednefs of
our land is fearfully difcovered : we are generallie a very rotten and hollow-
hearted people. Upon this, and many other confiderations, the fervants of
our Lord Chrift ought to haften their union ; without this extreamities will
be followed, fome in flacknefs, others in rigorous ftricknefs of difcipline,
whereby matters will be put clofe out of frame.
I know needlefs it is to exhort yow, to incline to and follow after peace
and union : ye would rather expect of me overtures. I have been defyrous,
for fome fpace, that not only debates about former refolutions, but determina
tions, acts, cenfures, all be quite laid afide ; all authoritative acting either
by Commiffion 1650 or 1651 laid afide ; correfpondence entertained by all
Synodals in the kingdome, that by confent we may fall upon a public!; way
againe ; in the mean time, about planting of kirks, neither fatiffaction nor
duTatiffaction to be taken notice of: If uniting on fuch termes may be
had, they are accurfed that would hinder the fame, by feeking fatiffaction for
what is palTed : for my owne part, I think I fee evidentlie enough fome
things amnTe utrinque ; hot I would preferr one act of oblivion herein, leaft
new debating exulcerate our fores. I remember my love to Mr. James
Fergufone, and communicate my mind herein to him. Grace be with yow.
Your loving Brother,
R. BLAIR.
ANSWER TO MR. BLAIR. APRIL IST 1652.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
YOUR'S of March 23d, I receaved this night. The fubfcription of the
Englifh tender is againft no man's mind more than mine ; a partie of our
Toune hes now done it publickly and privately : I have declared myfelfe
againft it more than any other have ; but the refufeall of thefe who make no
fcruple to lay afide the King, and to make the third article of our Covenant
176 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1652.
(land well enough with a freedome to change Monarchic with a Scottifli Re
public, this to me is a high-enough crime. Our commonalitie wes never
countenanced by me the lafl year, in any thing I knew, either then or now,
to have been wrong. How gladlie I would be at union in any tollerable
termes many know, but for the quite laying afide all the a6ls of the lafl
Aflemblie, and that men cenfured fhall not make fo much as the lead ac
knowledgement for all their erroneous and very evill Remonftrances, Protefta-
tions, and other mifcarriages, whereby they have directly ruined the Com-
miflion and the Generall Aflemblie, and hes been very inftrumentall in the
public!; calamitie, and to this day goes on with a high hand in deftructive
wayes to their power ; to clap their heads in all this, I doubt it be accept
able to God, or the men's good, or can ftand with the being of our difcipline
in any time to come ; but that you pronounce all thefe men accurfed that
are not for thefe termes of Union, when I read it, I was amazed. Yow may
.know how much the hearts of our dear Prifoners,* and many more gracious
fervants of Chrift, are againft fuch termes of peace, albeit it be faid to us ; in
the face of Prefbytries, that we, or who ever are not for fuch a union, are
unworthie either to fitt in Prefbytries or Synods. All this I take, albeit with
grief, yet in patience and filence, hot fo as I count fuch writes and fpeeches,
no lenitives at all for healling. The God of truth and peace fend fuch over
tures of peace, as may be imbraced without a greater mifchieffe than is that
of our prefent rupture, though it be one great enough. The Lord be with
yow. I fhall be loath to deferve the eflimation of accurfed man by any, hot
leaft of all from yow, whom hitherto I have profefled a Father in Chrift.
Your Son in Chrift,
R. B.
FOR MR. JAMES WOOD. APRIL IST 1652.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
READ the inclofed, yow and Mr. Andrew Honyman, clofe and caufe de-
2 On being informed of a meeting of the Committee of Estates holding at Alyth, and said
" to be cairless, wanting a guard," &c. General Monk " raid up fra Dundie quyetlie in the
nycht, upon Thursday the 28th of August, came upone the Committee quyetlie in the morn
ing, tuik thame prissoneris, and robbit thame of all that thai had, and schippit thame toward
England, quhair thai war committit " to the Tower of London ; and they remained prisoners
till September 1652. (Vide Nicoll's Diary, pp. 56, 10a)
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Jiver it : I write it with a fore heart. I fear Mr. Blair and Mr. Durhame
be on ways to increafe our inifchieves : I fee the Synod of Glafgow and Fyfe
are prefently to be aflaulted in their new way for Union, to burie the Affem-
blie indeed, and to put tyrranous men's feet againe on the neck of our
Church. If yow there will contribute to thefe courfes, anfwer to God and
men for it. Is this the fruit of our Edinburgh meeting, and all the promifes
wes made to us of a teflimonie and a commiflion ? I fee 6ur prifoners at Lon
don's letters, which I faw, have not been fo groundlefs as I took them. I
would defyre ane account of your Synod's proceedings, and what ye have
been doing lince we parted. The Lord direc~l yow; yow to whom the
managing of the Church affaires wes chiefly committed : If for the name of a
peace (worfe I fear than all our difference yet hes been) with your own
hands yow will overthrow all, I mail be, by God's grace, a mournfUll wit-
nefs thereof, hot not a confenter thereto ; though over againe, bot for one
fober word to this purpofe, I mould be openly avowed unworthie to fitt in a
Prefbyterie ; yea, though I mould be counted worfe than all that, and worfe
hardly can be than ane accurfed man : I groan at fuch [horrible] termes
for no caufe at all, bot fober dutie in the fear of God. The Lord be merci-
full. If yow pleafe, yow will write with the firfl occafion.
Your Brother,
R. BAYLIE.
FOR MR. WOOD. APRIL IST 1652.
OUR Ufurping Brethren, (as Mr. Blair wont to terme them,) fo farr as I
fee or can learn, minds no Union with us bot in their own termes ; to be fet
up againe, to goe on where they left, to make havock among poor brethren,
from which all your caveats and other promifes will not guard. They here,
who may and mould know, fay, that Mr. Lockier at Aberdeen gott a paper
from Mr. James Simpfone of Airth, defyreing a conference for union betwixt
ours and fome of their divines. This paper wes fent from Aberdeen to the
Commiflioners at Dalkeith, by Lockier,5 who did difrellifli the motion and
5 Nicholas Lockyer, an English Independent minister, who was in Scotland at this time
with the English forces. Vide infra, p. 213.
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difcharged it. There is ftrong hopes that Cromwell, on fundry obligations, will
fend with Sir Henrie Vane back to our brethren, either a Scottifti Republic^
or fuch conditions as will fatiffie them : Will yow not have patience to look on
a little ? before the tune of the Generall Aflembly, we will fee much more :
Why fhould our precipitation contribute to further evill defignes of dangerous
men ? Alfo that Mr. Lockier wes fent for by fome of the Scots to overfee
the creeling of new congregations in the North : what is doeing there, and
what fpeed Gairdner, in his rebaptizings, hes come, yow will know better
than I. We expect (hortlie Lockier and Oxenbridge here. All that fears
me not, fo much as the counfells and actings of mild and moderate brethren :
Marihall alone, in fome of our judgments, deflroyed more the Kirk, King-
dome, and Covenant, in England, than all the feven diflenting brethren.
Had the half of fome men's zeale and authentic been fpent againft the
(hamefull prefumption of a few turbulent men, which hes been to ftiew faults
utrinque, and to put the whole Aflembly juft in their condition, it had been
b'etter this day than it is with our Church. Nothing hes more encouraged,
and does daylie more, thefe men in their hardnefs, than their declining.
Mr. Dickfon and Mr. Dowglafs are fan* from fuch thoughts ; they will be,
when they hear them, ane addition to their griefe, and the fruit, I fear, the
lengthening of their imprifonments. This work I fear make but a third
faction, whofe violence may prove alfe great as any of the two former in
the end ; when, at the very beginning of their overture, they are fo modeft
as to pronounce all who will not follow their propofition to be unworthie
to litt in a Prefbyterie, yea, in termes, to be accurfed. I fear when yow
and I both, and all who will follow Mr. Blair's advyce, hes done our befl,
very many brethren and their flocks will beg the Englifh protection, that in
no termes they may ever come under fome men's government, either ecclefi-
aflicall or civill ; though no man hes been, and no man, I fear, (hall be
readier than my foolifli felfe ; yet I thank God, Mr. Blair, and his great
counfellor Mr. Durhame, hes wakened me at this time to give both him
and yow this watch-word in the beginning of this your dangerous Synod.
I hope yow will mifken to Mr. Blair, and all others, except thefe who are
intime friends to the Aflembly and Commiflion, all this my freedome, which
for the time great both grief and feare hes exprefled. Faill not to com
municate this to Mr. Andrew Honyman and Mr. David Forreft, that I
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may have yow three witneiTes of my heart's temper, which I fubmitt
humbly to your cenfure.
The act about expectants came firft from your Prefbytrie and Synod ; how
juft foever and expedient it be, yet I never practifed it, and affure yow it wes
never practifed to this day in the Weft. No example can be given hot of one
in Duinbartane ; and I find that is falfe. Bot I am fure our brethren are
carefull, one way or another, to plant all vacant kirks I know only with
men of their owne ftamp, and to marre all others ; neither hope I they will
change this dealing. The fardeft, I think, yow can goe, is to appoint fome
two or three of your Synod to joyne with fome of other Synods, men all
clearly for the Affembly, without If s or And's, to conferr firft with themfelves
and then with oppofite brethren ; that betwixt thefe fome mid-men, as Mr.
Blair, etc. deall ; the tyme to be May ; the place to be Edinburgh, or St.
Andrewes, or Kirkcaldie : only medle not in your Synod with the matters
themfelves. I wifh our prifoners minds at London were founder : I would
be loath to compone without them. A fhort paper from yow will be gotten
eafily conveyed to them, and fafe enough, weekly by Mr. Robert Lowrie.
FOR ROBERT DOWGLASS, AND JOHN SMITH.6 APRIL STH 1652.
BRETHREN,
THE companion of our heart, and our prayers to God for yow, and thanks
for his prefence with yow in all your fad fufierings, have been continuall.
Though fear of mifcarriadges and miftakes have hindered our writing to yow,
our earneft defyre and very great need of your counfell hes made us venture
at this time. Our ufurping brethren, through their unnaturall divifions have
added much to our calamities : the lamentable evills of that breach increafe
dayly. To expect union on the fmalleft fubmiffion of thefe men, it is in vain,
though the little remainder of our Church and State mould perifh before their
eyes. The crying neceflitie of fome healing of that breach makes the moft
of thefe who have been, and are oppofite to them, defyreous to have it in any
tollerable termes, and for that end hes had many thoughts and fundry meet
ings, but as yet all in vaine. At laft Mr. Blair and Mr. Durhame, men of
6 They were at this time prisoners at London ; and this letter, as appears from the MS.
was addressed to them under the assumed names of — Black and Robert Petre.
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the greateft authoritie and parts among us, have taken fuch a dealling in it,
that it is like either to agree the parties or work them to more fubdivifion.
It wes intended, and ftrongly prefled, to have carried our Synod of Glafgow
yefterday to the termes of agreement yow may read in the inclofed. By
our prayers to God, and all the diligence we were able to ufe, though the
minor and weaker part, yet we keept them off at this time from all, fo much
as ingadgeing in the matter, till we had leafure to advertife and take counfell
with all our friends, we pleafed, far and near. We had a very fore labour to
gett it to this. What is done in the Synod of Fyfe, where the like aflault, I
fuppofe, hes been made, I doe not know ; hot am fure I fent to fome of them
tymeous warning of all this defigne. We purpofe to feek the Lord, and ad-
vyfe among ourfelves what is to be done ; but it is my very earned defyre to
have your mind of the whole matter fo particularlie, and fo foon as is pof-
(ible, yow being thofe whofe mind in thefe things I 'defy re mod to follow.
Upon the one hand I fee, for all the fafeguards exprefied, the acts and pro
ceedings of the Afiemblie are alfe good as buried ; the authoritie of all
poflerior Aflemblies is fearfullie (haken, and putt in hazard to be trod
underfoot, by the error and willfullnefs of any the like partie ; thefe brethren
who hes been, in our judgement, the greatefl troublers of our Church and
State, are put againe in a prefent capacitie to goe on, by their purgeing, to
create great moleftations to many. But, on the other hand, the miferable
daylie fruits of our divifion are hardly tollerable ; they who now prefle
the Union are like to carry to it many of our chieff and bed men, fo that
the refuifers will be exceedinglie weakened by this abdradlion, and become
both odious and contemptible. What to doe I am in a draite : faill not,
if poflible, to give your advyce, for it will be to me of great weight. The
great and kind Lord uphold your hearts, and furnifh yow with all comforts
needfull, both in the inward and outward man, to the honourable difcharge
of that great and high talk of fore fuffering for himfelffe and us, and hade
your bringing out of that furnace as gold purified feven times.
Your Brother,
Glafgow, April 8th 1652. R. B.
Your free anfwer to this hannlefs and innocent cafe of confcience, in a
matter meerly ecclefiadicall, though found, Qiall offend no jud man ; though
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fundrie of good note be for this paper, yet the mofl [of] our mind in
the Synod are againfl it, and I love it not. It will be needfull to fett
downe, befydes the faults yow find in it, your pofitive mind of the
termes yow wifti us to agree ; or otherwayes, to goe on as we may in our
differences.
FOR MB. WOOD. APRIL STH [1652].
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
WE have had great and fore labour thefe dayes bygone ; before, and in
our Synod, fundrie of our brethren were inclyned to break off prefently from
the declyners of the Afiemblie. When, with enough adoe, I had gotten
thefe quieted, others of our brethren, as James Ferguffon and Patrick
Colvin, etc., were clear for agreement to this paper, which Mr. James Dur-
hame, as from Mr. Blair, alfo Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, etc. did prefs with all
their power, great vehemencie, and fubtilitie. By the help of God, we gott
all held off, and the Synod not at all ingaged fo much as in hearing one
lyne of the paper till we had tyme fufficient to advyfe with all our friends.
We have adjourned to the firft Tuefday of June, at which tyme doubtlefs
the agreement will pafle in our Synod in thefe very termes, and the chiefe
of thefe who have adheared to the AfTemblie will joyne in it, and the re-
fuifers will bear great odium to proteil againfl it. It is exceeding necefTare
we had frequent letters about it, and a meeting, even a commiffion, if yow
think fitt. I wifh we had the mind of our Brethren in bonds : it would be
a great encouragement to me, on either hand, as they inclyned. I have
written to them for it ; and if yow think fitt, I wifhe yow, or Mr. Blair, did
the like, with all poflible fpeed. My mind I have written to yow at fuch
length latelie twyce, that I need not now repeat. Your mind on the whole
matter fend over, with the firfl occafion, to Mr. Robert Lowrie, that I may
make the befl ufe of it I can.
Your Brother,
R. BAYLIE.
Our brethren hes difpatched correfpondents to Galloway, Argyle, and
Drumfreifs, to endeavour the fynodick paffing of this agreement there pre-
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fentlie, but I fhall doe my befl to keep it off at this tyme. I think yow
would write to Mr. Robert Young, Mr. William Rait, and Mr. William
Strachan, to be thinking, feverallie with the brethren of our mind in Perth,
Angus, and Aberdeen fhyres, on the paper which yow would fend them
there, they may be readier to give their opinion when yow call them to meet.
Though fome of our friends, as Mr. James FergufTon, etc., be almoft for all
the paper, yet the mod of our brethren, as Mr. David Elphingftone, Mr.
John Bell, Mr. George Young, are paffionatelie againil it.
FOR MB. ROBERT KER. APRIL STH 1652.
REVEREND BROTHER,
I THOUGHT before this to have had your mind in thefe things I fent to
Mr. James Wood ; I marvell it came not, being fo earneftly preffed. Mr.
R'obert Lowrie will fend yow a double of what I wrote to Mr. Robert Dow-
glafs and Mr. James Wood. I wifh yow meet with fome about yourfelfe,
and call Mr. William Jamefone and Mr. Knox to yow, to fee what yow dif-
like in this paper, and to fet downe pofitively yow will7 agree ; elfe they will,
ere we be aware, have the moft of all our confiderable brethren ingaged in
thefe termes. Ufe all poflible means to have your mind at me if yow can
before a fourtnight. I wifli alfo yow write to your brethren and others at
London, and to others, with all fpeed.
t Your Brother,
Glafgow, April 8th 1652. R. B.
FOR MR. ROBERT KER. APRIL 25TH 1652.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHEB,
I WAS very glad of your lafl letter, for by it I wes confirmed in that which
ever had been my fenfe of this lad motion for Union ; only yow miftake that
yow apprehend I wes ever for thefe Overtures, and for your clearing take
7 The word not seems to have been here omitted, judging from Bail lie's explanation at the
commencement of the following letter.
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the hiflorie : When, after waiting long for our teftimonie from St. Andrewes,
agreed on in our laft meeting at Edinburgh, and my fharpe craveing of it
from Mr. Wood, in that letter yow faw, at laft I got a long letter from Mr.
Robert Blair, the purpofe whereof wes thefe Overtures in effect, which dif-
pleafes yow, and with that certification, " That he accounteth them accurfed
who would hinder fuch an Union."8 Being fore greeved with this expreffion,
I wrote fharpe back to him, and to Mr. Wood, a long bitter letter, all which
yow (hall fee at meeting. Finding at the fame time, as I conceaved, Mr. Dur-
hame the author of thofe termes of Union, and fetter of Mr. Blair a-worke
for them, I was a little perplexed for the iffue, efpeciallie being told, in face
of Prefbyterie, diftinctlie by Mr. Durhame, " That who would be againft
fuch an Union were not worthie to fitt either in Prefbyterie or Synods." I
gott only this for declining, and that modeftlie, to be on a committee of our
Prefbyterie to draw fuch Overtures to be a reference from us to our ap
proaching Synod. To this terrible reflection, I faid no more but fimplie,
" Brother, this requires no an anfwer." Conjecturing by all this the defigne
with all earneftnefs, to engadge the Synods of Fife and Glafgow in thefe
dangerous Overtures, and being a little wakened by Mr. Blair's wryte and
Mr. Durhame's words, I difpatched prefently ane other letter to Mr. Wood,
to be communicat to Mr. Andrew Honyman and Mr. David Forreft, obteft-
ing them to guard againft this aflault, and to do their utmoft to fave their
Synod from meddling with the matter of thefe Overtures, and go no farther
than a conference on the general, without prelimitation. When we come to
the Synod, we had a fore labour. A committee they carried by their num
ber, whether we would or not ; the Overtures were the draught of Mr. Dur
hame alone, prefented to the committee, which we carried, much contrare to
their mind, that they mould not be fo much as prefented to the Synod ;
and to keep the Synod from ingadgeing, we were peremptor, and carried it,
that they mould not be fo much as read or fpoken of, under whatfoever
notion, in the Synod ; only we confented to the adjournment of the Synod
to June 2d ; againft which time, in the Committee, we promifed to propone
thefe Overtures to our friends far and near for their advyce, and to be readie
then to fpeak our mind on them, which now we would not ; though the moft
8 These Overtures, by Durham, were presented to the Synod at Glasgow, in April 1652.
A copy, of them is given in Baillie's MS. and will be added to this letter.
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of us (hew our averfenefs from the matter of them, and moft for the
forme, that any Synod fhould take upon them to meddle with what
concerned, the General! Aflemblie. My great fear was, farther drawing off
us, by this motion, fome of our chiefe friends ; yet God guided it fo that it
was prevented. Mr. James FergufTon, and Mr. Patrick Colvin, were at
firfl inclineable to much of the matter in the Overtures ; yet, ere we parted,
I fand both faft enough to oppofe them as they flood, and in the way they
were defyred, whereof I was glad. What fmce I wrote about this matter to
London, and Fife, and elfewhere, I defyred Mr. Robert Lowrie to (hew
yow. This is the whole matter, whereby I hope yow fee my forwardnefs for
thefe Overtures wes not fo great as yow fuppofe. Write once more to our
brethren at London, that, if poffiblie, I much defyre we may have their
mind at our meeting in Edinburgh. Mr. Dickfon, in both his fermons
here, and oft in his private difcourfe, declares himfelfe clear for the Aflem
blie in omnibus, without If's and And's, and contrare to thefe Overtures,
and all thefe men's wrong ways. It were good yow, Mr. James Fleeming,
and Mr. John Ofwald, come in and confirmed him, as I have done with
all my power : he will have great affaults from Warriftone, Mr. Hew
M*Kell, Mr. Blair and others.
I purpofe to enquire for yow, as I wrote lad, at Mr. Robert Lowrie's
houfe, on Monday at night May 10th, or Tuefday at noon the llth, God
willing, except yow have taken courfe with thefe of St. Andrewes to
(hift the meeting, whereof I could be glad. Yow will be doubtlefs, as
I have been, much refrefhed with Mr. Dickfon's zeal and wifdome in this
bufinefs, whereof I wifti our brethren at London and elfewhere were ad-
vertifed. Caufe fend to Glafgow, to Mr. George Young's houfe, fo foone
as yow can, twenty or thirty of Trochrig's books 9 to begin with : let me
hear from yow of the receipt of this, with the prices. The great and good
Lord be with yow, and direct us in the manifold fnares which Sathan, by
diverfe hands, better and worfe, now dayjy fetts for our feet.
Your Brother,
Glafgow, April 25th 1652. R. BAYLIE.
9 The posthumous work of Robert Boyd of Troehrigg, In Epislolam Fault Apostoli ad
F.phesios Preelections, which was published, with a preface by Baillie, at London, 1652, folio.
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[MR, JAMES] DURHAME'S OVERTURES FOR UNION.
BEING ftill more and more convinced of the neceffitie of Union among
the Miniflers of this Church, be the many evills that accompanie thefe diffe
rences, [the Synod] doe therefore think it expedient, to endeavour fome way
of healing, at leafl of preventing the growing, of the fame. And though they
neither intend hereby judiciallie to condeinne or refle6l on any acts or pro
ceedings of any of them, either on the one fide or the other, preceding this
time, (bot to leave both fides without prejudice by this agreement,) yet for
the ends forefaid, they doe voluntarlie condefcend mutuallie in the things con
troverted, in als farr as concerns their practice for the interim, as followes :
1. That they mall efchew all publick wakening or lengthening thefe de
bates by preaching or fpreading papers, either in favours of the one fide or
the other.
2. That they fhall forbear the practifing, executing or prefling of all acts
concluded in the laft AfTemblie at St. Andrewes and Dundee, and alfo the
prefiing or fpreading appeals, declinators or proteflations againft the fame ;
and that both thefe forfaids, together with any fentence intended or followed
thereupon, fhall be for the time, (as to practife and our ufe-making of them
in any thing) as though they had not been ; this being all way es fo underftood
as inferring no actuall condemning of either of them, as is faid.
3. That none of thofe be to any, whatfoever rank, minifler or elder or ex
pectant, a ground or aggravation of challenge or cenfure, or of exception
againft their being admitted to office, they being in other things found
qualified.
4. That fome be named as correfpondents who may carry thefe Overtures
to be conferred of with and recommended unto brethren of other Synods ;
who are to be written unto to fend fome of their number to meet at ane con
venient time and place for that end.
5. Likeas it is their purpofe, if God fhall give ane free Generall Afiemblie,
to indeavour for a full and judiciall fettleing and oblivion of the forefaid
differences, and all confequences that hes followed on them ; and, in the
meantime, to proceed in all affaires according to the uncontroverted rules
and acts of our Church.
VOL. in. 2 A
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This Agreeance may be drawne to the laying afide of all the prefent con-
troverfie, the matter being, for the particulars, removed but by the Aflemblie
itfelfe and fubmiflion of men cenfured ; elfe no Aflemblie firme hereafter :
And with cautions againft feared domination, and a due procefling of novelties
tending to feparate congregations, Why fhould not ane oblivion of Malig-
nants, the King and they having fatiffied, be granted alfo ? Why not de-
pofed minifters and elders, for no other fcandall, on fubmiflion, made capable ?
What Union elfe firme ?
FOR MR. JAMES WOOD. JUNE 4-TH 1652.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
WHAT yow have done in your Synod of Fife, it were good we knew. In
our Synod we had thefe two dayes fell bickering. Brethren of our judge
ment were rarely conveened ; the other very frequently. We thought we
had nothing at all to doe ; but they fand us unexpected work. The Pref-
byterie of Dumbartane had found the tryall of Mr. Robert Law, for one of
their kirks, unfatiffactorie ; the people appealled to the Synod ; after much
loud and clamorous debate, Sir John Cheiflie and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie gott
a committee, allmoft all of men of their own judgement, to put the young
man to fome new tryall, and, if they thought fitt, to ordaine him without the
Prefbyterie ; alfo another Committee to try and cenfure fundrie members of
that Prefbyterie, being joined with fome of the Prefbyterie itfelf. Viis et modis
they have drawne fome of the Prefbyterie to their fide, whereby that Prefby
terie, that had hereto been very unanimous and diligent to doe their dutie, is
put in a pitifull confufion, and difabled wholly for doeing any more good for
the time, againft this moft tyrannous courfe. When no intreaties, nor fair
overtures for peace could be heard, the whole party of the Prefbyterie pro-
tefled, that no declyner of the Generall Aflemblie fhould be a judge to them ;
to which they of our mind adhered ; for which Mr. Patrick Gillefpie and
Sir John Cheiflie did prefle vehementlie that all of us fhould be removed for
cenfure. We were willing to remove, on condition that they againft whom
we protefted fhould be removed with us as our partie, who could not fitt to
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judge us for protefting againft themfelves on fo great a ground ; on their refufall
to remove we likewife refufed. The next caufe was Mr. Robert Hume,
where they proceeded the clean contrare way, though the people were unani
mous and conflant in their call : the whole Prefbyterie had unanimouflie
approven him in his tryalls as ane expectant, and the moft minifters were
fullie fatiffied with all his tryalls ; yet on a parties diflatiffaction, for no con-
fiderable reafon, they could not be brought to determine any admiffion, fo the
people appealed from their clearlie partiall judgement. The letters of the
Commiffion they will not have read without a proteflation, and no election
will they permitt where they are able. It is in vain to dream of peace with
thefe men ! they mind nought hot to fett themfelves up, and to caft out and
hold out all they can, and fill all places with their profelytes ; to frame peo
ple to ane new devotion in materia proximo, to a feparation. However
Charteris be inbodying in a church fo faft as he can, and celebrating the
communion to his profelytes, yet, for all our dinne about him in our laft
Synod, he was not fo much as cited for the beginning of a procefle either
before Synod or Prelbyterie ; all their fire for cenfureing their other brether,
yet (as they mutter for fear to provocke the Englifli) is turned to cold
water, and a great deall of tendernefs, when they have adoe with Sectaries.
We befeek yow ingadge us no more in enfnaring conferences. Goe on in
the high clear pathway of our Generall Aflemblies without all preliraita-
tions : Lead us no more into temptation. Alfo our brethren in Glafgow,
Lanerk, Dumbartan, Irvine, and Ayr inclines ftronglie to elect by them
felves ; when others (though the major part by one or two led declineing
elders) refufe at all to elect, I hope yow will not be againft it, that in this
act we make ufe of our right. I defyre your judgement of this quicklie,
after yow have communicate with Mr. David Forreft and Mr. Andrew
Honyman. I have moved the brethren not to move any thing till I hear
from yow. All my arguments prevailes little with diverfe. Beware of
neuters their counfells ; no man ferves the dhTenters fo ftrongly as they :
A great deal better for the trueth that they did declare themfelffes oppofite
wholly. Send your returne to Laurence fo foon as yow can.
Your loveing Brother,
R. B.
In the end of our Synod, Mr. Patrick with Sir John, with confent of our
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Moderator, obtained ane act for keeping our Synod book from going back to
the next Aflemblie ; againft which we protefted. This is a clear evidence of
their purpofe towards the Aflemblie following.
FOR MR. ROBERT KER. JUNE 4xn 1652.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
BY the inclofed ye fee the condition of our affaires. I pray yow fend me
your own fenfe of my queftion about elections. Sundrie of us purpofes to
be in Edinburgh a little before the Aflemblie, whether commiflioners or no,
to guard the bed we can againft previous undermyning. I hear Mr Blair has
joyned in the diflent from the act of the Synod approving the conftitution of
the Aflemblie. I hope this muft be a miflake, he having fo oft fpoken for
the conftitution of the Aflemblie. So great and caufelefs a change cannot, I
am fure, befall him. However, I would think it expedient, if fo it feem good
to yow, to write to the Towre, that our confeflbrs there would be pleafed
to write feriouflie to Mr. Dickfone, Mr. Wood, and above all to Mr. Blair,
to doe their duetie in the Aflemblie ; and to oppofe as it becomes them, not
only manifeft oppofition to the Aflemblie, hot that which is more dangerous,
all tampering by enfnaring and betraying conferences ; and to turn the
edge of their zeal, and pen, not to flatter and ftrengthen, but to rebuke
and gainfay them who truely deferve it. As their letters broke our
laft mare, fo I think a wife and plaine admonition at this time, would
doe much good. I wifh yow write for it, bot withall give them a caveat
to provide, that fair lefs noife be made of letters either to them or from
them than lately hes been ; for I am much afrayed that fome malicious men,
finding their crooked defignes cruflied als much by their letters as any other
mean, procure them (hrewd offices. Try where the Synod of Glafgow's
book is, and how we may gett it. Your Brother1 had it to write on it the
Minutes of the laft Aflemblie.
Your Brother,
R. B.
1 Robert Ker, to whom this and many other letters are addressed, was Minister of Had-
dington, and brother of Andrew Ker, Clerk of the General Assembly.
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FOR MR. DAVID DICKSON. JUNE 4xn 1652.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
I HAVE defyred Mr. Robert Lowrie to communicate to yow my letter to
Mr. James Wood and Mr. Robert Kerr. I pray yow fend me your advyce
on the whole matter, efpecially on the point of election. The boldnefs and
violence of our brethren growes : accommodation with the fpirit that leads
them is defperate. If Mr. Blair and Mr. Durhame will flill go on to draw
us by [out of] our right flraight way, we muft befeek them to fpeak plain
ly their mind, and not to halt betwixt two, but at laft to fide. Or, if they
will make a third partie, we muft tell them they lay but ftepping-ftones to
lead over our friends from us to our oppofites ; which is the worft office they
can performe, and farr more evill than any thing they can doe now who
Hand in the extreameft oppofition. The Lord help yow to doe what yow
may for God and his caufe in this fo pitifull a time.
Your Brother,
R. B.
FOR MR. ROBERT KER. JUNE *7TH 1652.
I EXPECT with the firft your anfwer to my laft ; alfo I add this, that I would
think it very expedient yow had the advyce of Mr. Robert Dowglafs, your
Brother, and Mr. John Smith, of our whole proceedings, in the next AiTem-
blie ; both in generall, concerning all comes in their owne thought for our di
rection ; alfo, in all comes in your mind to propone to them ; efpecially what
we (hall doe with the men cenfured, when they add their proteftation againft
the nixt AfTemblie to their former contempt. 2. What fhall we doe for a
Teftimony againft the Englifti, if we may fpare it ; and if not, how farr fhall
we goe in declaring againft their tyrannic, and their adherents, efpeciallie
the Commiflioners for Union ? The giving of it is apparentlie our ruine and
of our Generall AfTemblie, and the great defire of brethren who are waiting
for this occafion to gett us removed, and the Kirk put in their hands : The
fparing of it for any danger, will, I fear, be fcandalous. I earneftlie defyre
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your and their mind concerning this our greateft point. 3. Alfo, what ad-
vyce they will give us anent our other brethren. If we receive them, we
will Humble the other ; If we keep them dill out, who, for little faults, were
depofed, or are willing to doe all for fatiffa6lion we ought to require, we are
injurious, and puts them to defperat courfes'. Beware of prelimiting confer
ences : befide your giving a juft exception againft the Affemblie, they are ex
ceeding dangerous, and only to enfnare us : confent not to countenance them.
The Aflemblie may not be fo fhort as only to adjourn with doing nothing at
all : this will not be yielded to by many who finds the oppofite brethren fo
active and fuccefiTull in evill, that, if a floppe be not putt to their rufheing
into all vacant places wifer modeft men only of their cavell, they will not
find the Church out of danger, before ane other Aflemblie, to be over
whelmed by them. The counfell of neuters muft not be regarded ; it is they,
above all, who increafe that partie, and weakens us moft by all their counfells
and proceedings. Write to me before yow go out of Edinburgh.
Your Brother,
ROB. BAILLIE.
FOR MR. JAMES DURHAME. JULY STH 1652.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
HAVE ING looked upon together the Caufes of the Faft communicat to us,
we have thought meet to acquaint yow with thefe our thoughts thereof, in
private, to receave your brotherlie advyce and direction thereupon, as God
mall put it in your mind.
We have been earneft of a long time to have had publicl: and folemne
Faflings, for many moft important Caufes, both to the land and this place ;
hot have alwayes been peremptorly refuifed all concurrence therein, unlefs
we would make our duties fins, and other men's fins our duties. When the
Lord's ftrange judgements on us hath put us now once againe to Faft together,
upon Caufes uncontroverted, we are very willing and defyreous to continue
this gracious and very neceflare exercife upon any Caufes we know, or which,
befyde our prefent knowledge, we (hall be inftructed in, by yow or any.
As for the paper prefented to us ; in the Firft Caufe, we defire to be inform-
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ed what be the reproaches in this place againft the ordinances. 2. We de-
fyre the unfrequenting of the ordinances, belide others, to be fpecified in
this moft eminent particular, which for fome time hes appeared to us, and
to many more, a very grievous fcandall, and a clear beginning of a fchifme,
that the ordinances out of the mouths of thefe of us who have been for the
publicl, have been alfe good as deferted, and that without any refentment
or reall endeavour we know of in our brethren to help it, lince the beginning
and continuance of this open fcandale, hath been in the perfons with whom
their power and intereft is manifeft.
Concerning the Second Caufe, we defyre to be informed what conftant
tra6l of oppofition to Chrifl hes been in this place, more than in others ; and
that the principles of enmitie to Chrift, wherein many are faid to be rooted,
were clearlie and pofitivelie fett downe. Alfo, what are the kythings that
never here have been miffed to obftruct the thryvings of the gofpell ; and
what ventings of hatred at the power of godlinefs ; what bitternefs and mock-
ings of pietie is underftood : thefe moft heavy crymes would not be charged
without clear and convincing evidences. We think the madnefs of a few
rafcall perfones is not here pointed at, neither the fpeeches againft the true
mifbehaviour of pious people can be taken for any wronging of pietie ; and
what there hes been more here, we defyred to be informed of it ; and when
we know it, we mail (God willing) heartily concurre in mourning for by
gones, and amending in time coming. We think alfo, that what is faid of
the affrontings with a high hand of the ordinances of Chrift, would be made
particular : if the late proteftation againft the common feffion be here under
ftood, it would firft be ftiewed to be guiltie of fuch a high challenge.
And why here is the unparallelled affronting of the Generall Aflemblie
and the Commiflion of the Kirk, which in the prime men of this place, hes
been, and is greater than in any towne in the kingdome, altogether buried in
filence ? Alfo the manifeft contempt of the meflengers of the gofpell, and the
fpurnings againft faithfull warnings would be fett doune in particular. We fear
that to our brethren's knowledge and fmall refentment, fome of our perfones
and miniftrie be in too great contempt with their chieffe familiars ; and
though many be difcontent with the perfonall mifbehaviors of fome of us
againft the fupreame authoritie of Church and State, what concerns that the
mefiage of the gofpell ?
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That the late conjunction of thefe now in place, fhould be alfe farr aggra
vate as poflible, we heartilie confent ; and have many witnefles of our dili
gence herein at diverfe occafions. But we think it a finfull partiality to be
filent, and whollie to connive at the fcandalls of others who gave great occa-
fion to this finne. Who were the men who went firll to procure the fliarpe
orders of ftrangers againft their neighbours ? By whom and where wes the
unhappie Remonftrance contry ved ? Who avowes every line of it to this
day ? Who were the authors and perfevering fomenters of thefe fatall divi-
fions that vifiblie hes ruinated the land, both Kirk and Kingdome ? Who,
in contempt of uncontroverted Generall AfTemblies and Parliaments, prefTed
to their power the laying afide of the King, and to this day putts him out
of their prayers ? Who have given great occalion to think that no con-
fcience needs be made of the Third Article of our Solemne League, and by
this means were the firft removers of the great barre againft the now pre
valent temptation ? Can all this be dallied with and connived at with the
Lord's good liking ?
In the Third, we acquiefce.
In the Fourth, we think what is fpoken of malice, invyings, and variances
in families, would be much more particularlie aggravate as one of the mod
vifible finnes of the place ; which, if the root of it were truely fearched, we
take it for a finfull fomenting of this grievous ill to make the fountaine of it
enmitie at the power of godlinefs, and to efteem the one pairtie to be the
people of God, (as the dialect of fome is,) that fo the other may be counted
the people of the Devill ; we are willing heartilie to goe along in chargeing
the one partie deeplie with every particular offence we know them to be
guilty of ; hot not to charge the other fide alfo, with that which vifiblie lyes on
them, in our judgement, it is but to perpetuate divifions among this people,
to the reall hurt of pietie, and the continuall miferie of this poor place.
As for the Fifth, we acquiefce in it.
The laft part of the Sixth, we underftand not. We think there hes been
alfe great cheerfullnefs in this people to contribute for the diftrefled, as ordi-
narilie any where elfe, except at fometimes when through miftakes they have
been hindered, and with the gloryings of the richer we are not acquainted.
In the feventh, we acquiefce.
Thefe are our thoughts of that Paper. If the Lord mail be pleafed to
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help yow to clear us in the things named ; and if ye hope there may be any
tollerable agreement in them, we fhall be glad not only to joyne in the Humi
liation itfelff, but in all the Caufes yow bring, for all that we queftion is bot
fome parts of a few. Before that this matter be precipitat, either in a com
mittee or feffion, we wifh yow delayed it for fome time. But herein let the
Lord direct. We reft,
Your loveing Brethren, for the time much grieved in
fpirit, and abafed before the Lord, for many things
we cannot mend neither in ourfelves nor others.
FOR MR. DAVID DICKSON.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
I WROTE to yow this week with James Hamiltone : I add now this one
word farther. On Wednefday, in our Prefbyterie, Mr. Patrick caried it to make
no ele<5lion ; we did give in, without dinne, the inclofed Proteftation. The
churches of Leinzie, Cathcart, and Kilbride, they will plant only with the
moft violent young men of their owne fide, and are fure, by one mean or
other, to marre all others to the utmoft of their power ; they mind nought
bot to compaffe their defigne, and for that end to tread downe all in their
way. Some in Finnick have declared for Reparation, againft whom M. W.2
preaches with tears, bot in vaine. I find they will have one more onfett on
yow and the minifters of Edinburgh, this next week, to tempt yow to pafle
from the laft AfTemblie, and their cenfures, as if they had never been, and all
the reft of the acts, controverted. God, we doubt not, will affift yow to doe
your duetie. But take good heed, I pray yow, to your colleagues, that they
be not entangled ; for if all of them, and many more with them, would be
tray the liberties of our church in the day of her diftrefle, I truft there fhall
be witneffes for her without all fuch, be they who they will. The fruite of
this labour will be but a new fchifme to ftrengthen the former, a renting of
the next Affemblie, als dangeroufly, as wes the laft ; and whoever will be a
leader to this work they will fucceed to Mr. James Guthrie and Mr. Patrick
Gillefpie. Our eyes are on God : but under him on yow, as a good inftru-
2 Mr. William Guthrie, Minister of Fenwick.
VOL. III. ' 2 B
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meat to prevent this new evill defigne. Look well to fome of Fife, and to
Mr. George Hutchefone and Mr. Hew [Mackaill.] Beware of my Lord
Wariftone's importunitie. The Lord help yow. Mr. John Livingftone is
very buflie.
Your Brother,
Glafgow, July 8th 1652. R. B.
[REASONS OF PROTEST.] WEDNESDAY, JULY ?TH 1652.
THE Moderator having put the queftion, What anfwer fhould be given
to the Letter of the Commiffion of the late Generall Aflemblie ; and the plu-
ralitie of the Prefbyterie having voted, that, contrarie to the defire of that Let
ter, no Commiffioners (hould be choifen to the Aflemblie to be holden in
Edinburgh the third Wednefday of July ; We under-fubfcryvers did diflent
from that vote, and entered our proteflation againfl it ; protefling lykewife,
that it (hould be free for us, for the preferring of the libertie of the Prefbyterie
and doing of our duetie, to choife Commiffioners as we mall find conve
nient for the next enfueing Generall AfTemblie, which is to fitt doune the
21(1 of July inftant. The Reafons of our Proteftation are thefe following,
and fuch others as we mail give in in time and place convenient : —
1. That vote did reflect upon, and reallie nullifie not only the acts, but the
verie conflitution and authentic of the laft Aflemblie and Commiffion thereof.
2. It does marre the next and all fubfequent Generall Aflemblies, ever
till the protefters againft the laft Aflemblie fhall obtaine aflureance that the
fubfequent Aflemblies fhall be willing to pafle from, and lay afide that of St.
Andrewes and Dundee as a null Aflemblie. Which aflureance were a mod
unjuft and unreafonable prelimitation of the Aflemblie following.
3. Becaufe not only the chiefe leader in that vote wes Mr. Patrick Gillef-
pie, who, according to our former proteftation, oft renewed, ought not to have
had voice at all, nor to have fitten in the Prefbyterie, being depofed from his
miniftrie by that late Generall Aflemblie ; hot alfo more nor a triple number
of minifters were againft that vote, only two being for it, to witt : Mr. James
Hamiltone and Mr. William Young ; other feven having voted pofitively
for a prefent election, to witt : Mafters Zacharie Boyd, George Young, Hew
Blair, Robert Young, Robert Bay lie, Gabriel Cunynghame, Archibald Den-
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neftone ; whiles Mr. John Carilaires voiced non liquet, and Mr. James Dur-
hame did refufe to declare his mind pro or contra ; Mr. Andrew Morton
and Mr. Thomas Melvill being abfent, and Mr. Hew Binning not prefent at
the voyceing. The ruling elders alfo who caried the vote mould not have
voiced in that particulare ; becaufe they all ftood in a6luale oppofition to the
laft Generall AfTemblie, being either actuall protefters againft it, or being fent
by thefe who were fuch.
FOR MR. JAMES DURHAME. JULY HTH 1652.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THAT any thing which came from me mould have grieved yow, efpeciallie
in fuch a degree, I am forrie ; for wittingly I would not grieve yow, from
whofe word my heart hes been fo oft refrefhed. Your anfwer, I confefs, hes
grieved me to purpofe ; but that all farther provocation may be broken off,
we have written once more, I hope without all gall, though the tenth part of
your anfwer might have wakened better hung fplenes than are the beft of
yours. But we defire to fear God, and to love and honour yow, doe and fay
what yow pleafe. Your loveing Brother,
R. B.
FOR MR. JAMES DURHAME. JULY HTH 1652.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
Yow have been pleafed to give us fuch ane ftrange anfwer to our humble
and modeft letter, as truely we intended it, that we purpofe not to fafche yow
with more of that kind. We mew yow what we* mifliked in your paper ;
that without all dinne and debate it might have been helped by yow in pri
vate. We went alongil with yow in all the Caufes of the Fad : the moft of
them abfolutely. The exceptions we took at fome parts of a few, concerned
one excefs, and ane other defect, as we conceaved. The great divifions of
this place are knowne. About the authors and fomenters of them, we faid,
we fay nothing ; only we wifhed that what oft we heard from pulpits, this
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paper, which wes to conclude us, might not bear, as if the one fide of the
divided were the people of God, and the other God's enemies. We think
fuch ane application of this diftinc"lion injurious, and many wayes very hurt-
full. What fins were in this place in James Grahame's dayes, and in the time
of the Engadgement, and now, in this late conjunction, we have witnefled
too much and too fharply againft them, privately and publicity, that now we
mould excufe any of them : We are not fo blind as not to fee much igno
rance, profanitie, and enmitie to God and his gofpell, into many among
whom we converfe : Yet to apply all this to the one fide of our divided peo
ple, as we apprehend fome men's fermons ordinarily doe, and this paper im
ported, this was it that we defyred to be clear ere we had joyned in it.
Chrift's mercies to us have been fo many, and our hopes of falvation by his
blefled blood fo great, that we would be loath, upon knowledge, to excufe a
thought that reflected on him ; hot the bickerings of neighbours among them-
felves, merely for the things of this world, to put all thofe on Chrift, and what
the humours of provoked people does caft out one upon another for mifcariages,
whether true or but apprehended, to father all this on enmitie to Chrift
and religion, to us is not juftice. This wes all we purpofed, and all the mat
ter, we think, wes written by us. What high and deep cenfures ye are
pleafed to put upon us for this, and that without all paffion, if we fhould fett
them doune before yow together, we hope ye would not like them fo weell at
the fecond fight as at the firft. We truft ye would change thefe your thoughts
of us, when yow fee they want all foundation. We tell yow, in paffing, but
this one word : Upon our converfing with this people, more than feven times
longer than yet yow have done, that, in our judgement, this way of preach
ing and writing is one of the chief Humbling blocks and great marrs of the
progrefs of pietie we know here : continue in it fo long as any think fitt.
What yow fpeak of reproaches of Mr. Dickfon's miniftrie, that they
Ihould be putt in the Caufes of a Faft, we doubt it (hall not be the fefiion's
mind. The late mod lhamefull reproaches of his preaching and perfone,
too well knowne, were never fo much as cognofced upon, more than the
public! revilings to his face of that other brother yow name, (now blefied) ;
yea, the bafe threatnings of him, and the reft of us, with ftroakes, and more,
in the face of feflion, and in papers laid at our doors ; yea, the preparing
of cudgells by too many of that fide, to have fallen upon us in our very
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pulpits for no caufe at all. Doe not efteem thir things calumnies, for. we
know too well the truth of the facts, though we be altogether ignorant of any
notice wes ever taken of any of them by thefe whom it concerned, when yet
words againft the perfones of others have ufuallie been followed to the out-
mofl, and cenfured with all poffible rigour. Yow may remember when ex
ceeding grofs calumnies, againft fome of us, judiciallie convicted of falfhood
were notwithftanding totallie flighted. The defect we complained of wes the
conniveing at the many moft fcandalous linnes of the other fide, as if no fuch
thing «ver had been. This flill yow feem altogether to mifregard. We are
not willing to apply to this your neglect, the terrible cenfures yow put upon
us for no fuch caufe. How great occafion foever yow give us, yet we for
bear to provoke yow in the leaft, but committs this whole matter to your
owne review ; if yow continue in your firft fenfe, we muft lay it over on
our common Mafter, and continue to mourne before him for that which oft
hes been the burden of our fpirits, waiting for his help and remead in his
owne time, fince to us the help of man is vaine. The effect of all our de-
fires, firft and iaft, is, That without noife, thefe parts of your paper we
touched, may be put in fuch expreffions as mail avoide that evill we fpoke
of ; and that ye would caufe add thefe other open fcandalls, a pairt whereof
we have named, leaving many more which eafily may be remembered ; for,
in our judgement, in a day of folemne acknowledgement of the finnes of this
place, fuch things cannot be omitted, without a great deal of undutifullnefs
both to God and man. The Lord direct yow what to doe in this grave
bufinefs, for with yow alone we have dealt in this matter ; neither intend
we, for our part, that it fhall come to any other hand nor yours.
Your loveing Brethren,
R. B[AILLIE].
G. Y[OUNG].
H. B[LAIR].
FOR MR. Rous. AUGUST 20TH 1652.
RIGHT WORSHIPFULL,
BEING intreated by the bearer Miftrefs Lamy, upon the remembrance of
old friendfhip, I make bold to recommend her to your favour. I have been
oft a folicitor to yow for her, and, as fhe tells me, never in vaine ; for this I
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can give but hearty thanks, withall intreating for the continuance of your
charitable indeavours for that her penfion and almes, which, I fuppofe, is all
the fubfiftance (he hes, after a long and faithfull fervice to thefe who now
are removed. I am hopefull, by your afiiflance, (he (hall obtaine fo much,
if no juftice, yet charitie and mercy, that (he (hall give thanks to God and
yow fo long as (he lives. She tells of a letter yow wrote to me without ane
anfwer ; be aflured I never faw it, for if any thing from yow had come to my
hand, I would not have been long in anfwering. I have been oft follicitous
in this terrible temped for yow in particular, bot could learne nothing cer-
tainlie of your condition, before this bearer the other day did informe me of
it. I was very glad to hear yow wes alive, and, in the great change of many
men's minds and eftates, that yow were the fame I left yow,3 (incere in the
Covenant, and ftill to your power furthering what concerned God and godly
men ; the continuance, for the little remainder of your life, in this gracious
courfe, will crowne your (long agoe) very white hairs with a rare and almofl
(ingular garland of inward peace and outward honour, among the generation
of the juft.
If I were befide yow, I would ufe my wonted freedome to poure out
before yow many complaints, and much grief for what is pad, and no
fmall fear for what I yet apprehend is imminent ; but diftance of place,
and iniquitie of time, makes me cutt off fuch purpofes : only I cannot fup-
prefle one thought, that, in my judgement, the long and heavy fufferings of
Mr. Dowglafs and his fellows, on the part of the agents, will not be very
acceptable to God, nor honourable before equitable men. Thefe men are
eminent fervants of Jefus Chrifl ; they have done and fuffered much in the
fervice of the Parliament of England ; if they (hall be forgott thus, year after
year, and permitted to languiflie in prifone, their Mafter will require it. If
yow were able to procure their freedome, it would be a favour which not
only I, your faithfull friend, but the whole Church of Scotland, would highly
efteem and blefs your memorie for it. Wifhing the prolongation of your
days yet for fome time, for this and fuch fervices to Chrift and his faints,
I reft,
Your affe&ionat friend and humble Servant,
R. B.
3 Supra p. 97 : Baillie speaks of Rous, with regret, as having complied with the Sectaries.
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A POSTSCRIPT.
YOUR Judges axe goeing the next week, as we hear, to vifite our Univer-
fities. If they be inftru6led to minifter the Tender to us, they muft purge
out of St. Andrewes Mr. Blair, Mr. Rutherfoord, and Mr. Wood ; out of
Edinburgh Mr. Dickfon ; and me out of Glafgow ; and thereafter multi
tudes of our moft precious minifters. Whatever differences be among us,
yet all of us of any good efleem, are refolved, by God's grace, to fuffer what
mall be impofed, rather than to quate any article of that Covenant, which, at
the follicitation of the Parliament of England, we were brought into. For
the tyme we are all very quiet and peaceable ; but if, for confcience fake,
we mall be wracked, by thefe of whom we have deferved the beft things,
our filent mourning will cry aloud in the eares of the Lord, to the fmall ad
vantage of them who trouble us without all caufe. If yow be able to pre
vent this mifchiefe, it will be a good fervice, not only to God, and many
of us his children, but alfo to thefe who, by troubling us, may procure to
themfelves, from the hand of our Saviour, much more evill than they are
aware of. If Mr. Tate be alive, and in his old credite, I hope he will
gladly, after his ufe and wont, joyne with yow in fuch imployments. I
wont to find hot a few there lyke-minded to yow two in the things of God
and his Church.
FOR MR. JAMES WOOD. DECEMBER IOTH 1652.4
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
I HAVE been expecting, as you promifed, a calling of our Commiffion. I
wes hoping alfo for ane account of their conference at St. Andrewes, to
have helped us in our conference here ; but hearing nothing from yow of
either purpofe, I have fent this expreffe to give yow ane account of our pro
ceedings yefterday, the 9th of this inftant, as we were defired. There mett
in Mr. John Carftairs's chamber, of our mind, Mailers James Ferguffbn,
* Although this letter bears the date of December 1652, and is entered among others of that
period, there is some reason to believe that the date is wrong, and that it may have been writ
ten in December 1651.
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Patrick Colvill, William Fullerton, John Gemmill, and myfelf ; Mr. David
Dickfon excufed himfelf, in a letter to his fonne, by the weaknefs of his
body, and the length of the journey. Of the other mind there came hot
four : Mailers Patrick Gillefpie, John Carftairs, Alexander Dunlop, and Hugh
Binning. We fhew ourfelves willing to hear whatever they had to fay to us
for the agreeing of our prefent differences. They propounded to fpeak our
minds of the differences, if fo be we could be brought nearer to them, were
it but to acknowledge fome defection and backfliding, hopeing, as we fand it
thereafter, to have drawne out fome difference among ourfelves about this
propofition, as it's faid it did among yow. The points they required our
fenfe of wes : The treatie with the King, the Commiflion's anfwer to the
Querie, and their anfwer about the Act of Claffes, the conflitution of the
Generall AfTemblie, and the controverted acts thereof. We were willing to
declare our mind in all things ; hot defyred alfo to know their fenfe of the
feparation from the forces at Stirling, of the Weftern remonftrance, of their
6ppofeing ever fince the public!; refolutions of Kirk and State, of their
proteftation againfl the Generall Affemblie, of their erecting of a Commif-
fion, of their giving out Caufes of public! fads, wherein they determine all
our controverfies, and layes the main caufes of the wrath of God on their
oppofites proceedings. We did declare our mind unanimouflie enough in all
the firft. They did declare their mind als unanimouflie in the rigour of all
the other ; fo any drawing near one to ane other, while we remained in our
prefent judgements, appeared defperate to us all ; yet, after much talking, and
on their profeffions to be very defirous of peace, and of their willingnefs to
have all differences laid afide for their part, we were not averfe from trying if
any jufl peace were poffible. And for this end did offer to propone to the
brethren of our mind, to meet among ourfelves, fo foon as might be, to fee,
1(1, How farr they might be content, without all reflection on the Generall
Aflemblie, and former Commifiion, or any of their Acts, for peace caufe, to
lay afide thefe debates which did caufe this prefent rupture ; 2d, To agree
what Teftimonie to give, fo far as concerned the minifters of Chrifl, againft
all falling away from the Covenant, which now is like to be the generall
temptation of many. That from thefe meetings fome few, were it one from
a Prefbyterie, might come to Edinburgh, or fome where elfe, to confer with
thefe who (hall attend them from our differing brethren ; who, if God may be
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pleafed to help them to come toward fome reall agreeance, may return with
diligence to thefe who fent them, and report what they had found either in
the two named particulars, or in what elfe yow pleafe to add. I have fent
this exprefs bearer to yow, to know how ye like of this motion ; for howfo-
ever all of us inclined towards it, yet we refolve to follow it no further, if ye
be not alike well pleafed with it. If, after confi deration, yow think good it be
followed, yow then will call to fpeak with yow, at St. Andrewes, fuch of the
brethren of Fyfe, Perth, and Angus, as yow find expedient ; and, on your
advertifement, we mall write to thefe we find moft fitt of Aire and Galloway
to meet at Munyboill, of Clydefdale and Dumbartan to meet at Glafgow, of
Louthian and the South to meet at Edinburgh. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie will
have fome of the other mind ready to wait upon thefe who mall come from
thefe meetings at what time and place we mail appoint. If ye find not this
courfe good or tymeous, advertife me with the boy, and there mall be no more
of it. I will write to none to keep this appointment, till I hear from yow, and
yow have named both the time and the place, and the matter of the confer
ence, both among ourfelves and our differing brethren. If yow name a time,
let it be fuch wherein there may be fpace to advertife the forenamed parties,
firfl to meet among themfelves, and then to fend their commiffioners to the
common meeting at the place yow mall name. If yow think fitt, yow may
defire the brethren of the North of our mind to meet for the fame purpofe
among themfelves at Aberdeen. Thefe things would be done with all dili
gence. Expecting your anfwer, I remaine,
Your loveing Brother,
Glafgow, Wednefday, 10th December 1652. R. BAYLIE.
I receaved your letter, and followed all your advyce. Communicate this
to Mr. Andrew Honyman, whofe letter alfo I receaved, and thanks him for
it. There is very great noife here of Mr. Blair's letter to Mr. James Dur-
hame, and of his fpeeches in your late conference, to the very great difad-
vantage of the late Generall Aflemblie and Commiffion, contrare to his
own former profeffions. If this could be gotten amended by yow there, we
would be very glad of it, both for the publick caufe and for that reverend
brother his owne reputation.
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FOR THE CORRESPONDENTS WITH THE PRESBYTERIE OF GLASGOW IN THE
PLANTING OF LEINZIE.*
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
The Commiflion of the Kirk, according to the acl of the Generall Affemblie,
having nominate a committee to joyne with the Prefbyterie of Glafgow for
the fpeedie planting of the Kirk of Leinzie, and given power to any of the
Prefbyterie to call that committee whenfoever they fand themfelff grieved by
the Prefbyterie' s delaying any longer to plant that kirk according to the a&s
of the late Generall AfTemblie ; We, underfubfcryvers, haveing with much
patience waited on and ufed all means in our power to move the Prefbyterie
at lafl to plant that exceeding long defolate congregation, are now reallie
grieved to fee that plantation fo much fruflrated, that we have no hope at
all to gett it done in any convenient time without the help of the appointed
committee. This forces us at lafl, according to our exprefs commiffion, to
call it ; and yow being one of the number, with your ruleing elder, are
earaefllie intreated to keep with us at Glafgow the fecond Wednefday of
January the 12th day of this inflant, whereby yow fhall doe ane fervice
acceptable to God and very comfortable to us, and neceffarie to that poor
defolate people who has wanted ane minifler near three years ; and without
God's help and yours, is like to want one much longer. Expedling that
herein ye will not be inlacking, We reft,
Your loveing Brethren in the Lord.
Glafgow, January 3d 1653.
There joyne with us in this defy re, albeit for the time abfent from toune,
Maflers Robert Young, Gabriell Cunynghame, and Mr. Archibald Denneflone.
5 This circular letter, written by Baillie, refers to a case which he frequently mentions
in his letters at this time. The barony and parish of Leinzie or Leinyie, in Dumbarton
shire, comprehending the two parishes of Kirkintilloch and Cumbernauld, originally belonged
to Stirlingshire. The parish was ordered to be disjoined in 1649, into Easter Leinzie or
Cumbernauld, and Wester Leinzie or Kirkintilloch ; but it was not till 1659, when a new
church for the eastern parish was erected.
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FOR MR. PATRICK GILLESPIE. JANUARY 1653.
RIGHT REVEREND,
Yow had no caufe to wonder for that which wes expreflie told yow, and-
neceffarlie did follow from the principles we walked upon. Thefe Brethren
who arofe and left us were, yow know, not acknowledged by us as the
Prefbyterie after our lad proteftation, but thefe who fatt ftill with the Com-
miflioners, to performe the duetie recommended to them by a fpeciall act of
the Generall AfTemblie and Commiffion of the Church, were taken by us
for the only allowable Prefbyterie of Glafgow. Their delegation of minifters
to preach in Leinzie to us was a lawfull and expedient prefbyteriall act :
That I was one of thefe who were fent, was burthenfome to me and truelie
againfl my heart ; but being unanimouflie delired and voted to goe there
the nixt Sunday, I thought it my duetie to obey. My purpofe is to give no
offence to any, but fincerelie to preach the word of God, as the Lord gives
me grace, for the beft advantage of the kingdome of Chrift in the hearts of
my hearers, as I mail be enabled. If in this purpofe any unadvyfed people
mall doe violence either to me or others, it mail be my endeavour not to
deferve any fuch affront ; but if yow know tumults to be defigned, I mall
pray God to pardone the actors and fomentors thereof, and remaine,
Your Brother,
R. B.
FOR MR. JAMES DURHAME.
As I thank yow heartilie for your kinde and brotherlie warning, fo mail I
intreat yow for that Chriftian duetie to imploy your power with thefe raftie
people that they finne not againfl God, nor hurt the Lord's fervants who
never wronged them, and are only going about that which they conceave
a part of their calling, and the Lord's fervice for the good of people's
foules. Herein if yow be deficient, yow cannot bot be grieved for it here
after when yow fee ill done, which poffiblie if yow had pleafed yow might
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have prevented. However, I am in confidence obliedged to goe about that
which I conceave my duety, let the Lord pennitt what obftruction he pleafes
to be putt in my way.
Your loveing Brother,
R. B.
POSTSCRIPT.
Truely if I did not think in my heart the bodie of that people to be the
givers of the call, and the oppofers to be hot a fmall partie, in regard of the
whole, who in reafon ought not to prejudge the right of the fair mofl part,
I (hould not at all have meddled in that matter. However fair and fober
dealling will be found the beft of it, both before God and all men.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND DEAR BRETHREN, MR. CALAMY, MR. WHITTAKER,
MR. ASH, MR. CRANFORD, MR. CLERK, FAITHFULL MINISTERS OF JESUS
CHRIST, WITHIN THE CITY OF LONDON. JANUARY 21sT 1653.
REVEREND AND DEAR BRETHREN,
Yow have been pleafed to accept fo kindly of my former letter, as the
bearer, Mr. Wilkie, made me to underftand, that I am emboldened to impor
tune yow with this fecond. My long experience of your refpects to me, and
more of your pious and compaflionate difpofition to all our fuffering Brethren,
made me expect no lefs than what Mr. Wilkie wrote of your kind acceptance
of my recommendation, and your readinefs to endeavour by your beft advyce
and afliftance, the relief of our numerous fupplicants, in their very fad condi
tion reprefented to yow by that gentleman our agent there. We were once in
good hopes, to the comfort of many here, of fome confiderable fupport from
your Parliament. But the unexpected increafe of their weighty affaires which
hes interveened, hes much blafted all our former expectation. The long and
chargeable attendance of our agent, without appearance of any fruit, makes us
inclyne to recall him. The difappointment of our fair hopes will add to the
affliction of our wracked people, bot the will of the Lord be done. Only be
fore his departure I thought fitt to return to yow, my Dear Brethren,
heartie thanks for all the kindnefs yow have (hewed to him, and to intreat
yow for your beft counfell to him, if in fuch a juncture of your affaires, he
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may yet have hope, by fome further flay, of any fuccefle in his negotiation,
worthie of his charge and paines. In the meantime our prayers to God
mall be for yow and the reft of our Brethren there, that in this day of dark-
nefs the light which the Lord hes put in your veflels may continue to fhine
for the comfort and direction of the Lord's people there and elfewhere.
That the good hand of the Lord may be on all your fpirits for enabling of
yow for every fervice his Majeftie calleth for at your hands, fo prayes
Your very loveing and much honouring Brother,
Glafgow, January 21ft 1653. R. BAYLIE.
FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COMMISSIONERS' FOR THE VISITING THE
UNIVERSITIES.
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
YOUR Honours letter of February 1ft, being this day communicate to us, ac
cording to your direction, we make unto it this humble returne ; That we
believe in our confciences the right of Ordination of minifters to vacant
congregations belongs to the Church by divine right, and the gift of Jefus
Chrift. In this truth we conceave we have the full confent, not only of
all the minifters of Scotland, whatever otherwife be their differences, hot
of all Proteftant Churches, yea of thofe who are of the Congregationall way,
and who refufe infant baptifme. We have feen many declarations of the
Parliament of England for this truth, which, fo farr as we know, ftand un-
repelled. In the late ordinations which have been in our owne Preflbyterie,
or in the neighbour Prefbyteries of Hamilton, Lanerk, Dumbartan, Pafley,
Lithgow, Biggart, or any where elfe in Scotland, we have not heard that
your Honours hes quarrelled that right. The planting of fome Kirks among
us at this tyme lyes heavilie upon us, not only as upon the Prefbyterie of the
bounds, hot by a fpeciall appointment of the Generall Aflemblie, and a re
newed ordinance from the Commiffion of the Church. A very numerous,
and now almoft three years defolate congregation, hes long been moft earneft-
lie preffing us for it. All the tryells of the young man were clofed to the
great fatiffaction of all who were prefent, and his edict wes ferved before
your letter come to our hands. We therefore humbly intreat your Honours
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to take in good part that we goe about that which we believe in confcience
to be our duetie in a matter meerly fpirituall, wherein we medle with nothing
Civile, and wherein the Civile power, wherever it gives any tolleration at all,
makes no queflion any where, to our beft knowledge. We are fure in France
the Prince, though Popifh, denyes not this libertie, and all the Eaftern world,
where there are any Chriftians, the Magiflrate does not controvert it. We
have very good hopes that as the Civile power in this land did never offer to
take that libertie from the Church, fo your Honours will be loath to mind
any fuch thing. Praying yow may be pleafed to take this our humble and
confcientious anfwer in good part, we reft,
Your Honours, in all Chriftian duty, the Prefbyterie
of Glafgow, and Committee joined to them by the
Generall Aflemblie and Commiffion of the Church,
fubfcryved at our direction by our Moderator,
MR. HEW BLAIR.
. Glafgow, February 8th 1653.
FOR OUR WORTHIE FRIENDS, THE RECTOR, DEAN OF FACULTIE, AND THE
REST OF THE MASTERS OF THE COLLEGE OF GLASGOW.
WE haveing formerly made knowne unto yow our defires of Mr. Gillefpie's
being Principall of your Colledge ; and hearing yow are not at all unanimous
in your defyres of the fame ; bot that fome doe either directly and exprefllie
or obliquely and fecretly oppofe it, which may adminifter fome ground of dif-
couragement to him to accept thereof ; We doe therefore defire to hear from
yow, and clearlie to receave it, under your owne hands, who are willing and
approve of the fame, and who, and how many doe oppofe it, and their reafons
for the fame. This we defyre may be fpeedily returned unto us under your
owne hands, that fo this necefiary work may not be retarded and obftrudled ;
but that we may have occafion to exprefie ourfelffes, as we defyre, to be
your loveing Friends,
GEO. SMYTH.
EDW. MOYSLEY.
Edinburgh, February 1ft 1653. ROB. SALTONSTALL.
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MY LETTER TO THE JUDGES ANENT THE GROUNDS OF MY PROTESTATION
AGAINST MR. PATRICK GILLESPIE'S ENTRIE IN THE PLACE OF
PRINCIPALL.(°)
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
BEING required by a letter from your Honours, February 1ft, prefented in
our meeting February 7th, to make clearlie known unto yow our minde con
cerning Mr. Patrick Gillefpie his being Principall of our Colledge, in all
humility I doe offer thefe my thoughts on that matter. When your Honours
order appointing Mr. Patrick Gillefpie to be our Principall wes prefented
unto us, I profeft I mould make no oppofition thereunto ; and when ever
Mr. Patrick Gillefpie fhould accept that charge, according to that order, my
carriage in my ftation mould be fuch as fhould minifter to him no juft caufe
of complaint ; neither lince that time, directly or indirectly, to my know
ledge, have I oppofed or made any impediment to him to obey that order.
But when, as I conceave befyde that order we were required to defire and
invite him to accept of that place, the moft part of the Facultie did mow
that we could not in confcience doe it, for fundrie reafons that had weight
with us. For myfelfe, at your Honours command I make mention now of
thefe few following.
1. 1 conceave it is one of the rights and priviledges of our Univer-
iitie, whereunto I am tyed by oath, to make choife by a free election, as
of all the reft of the Mafters, fo of our Principall. And when we have
made choife to try his qualifications fo farr as we finde it expedient ; hot
where neither a voice in election nor any place to try is left to us, though I
will not oppofe, yet I cannot defyre nor invite any man to accept fuch a
kind of call as infringes our priviledges.
(6) Supra p. 154, it was noticed that Mr. Robert Ramsay was elected Principal of the
University of Glasgow ; and a doubt was expressed of his ever having officiated in that capa
city. I since find, from the College Records, that he was duly admitted and subscribed the
Oath as Principal ; but the date is omitted. It must, however, have been in April or May
1651, and he survived at most only a few months. He signs a deed as Principal, 27th July
1651. After some interval Mr. Patrick Gillespie was appointed his successor, by the English
Commissioners, and he was admitted 14th February (16th calends of March) 1653.
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2. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie (lands a depofed minifter by a Generall AfTemblie,
which to me wes a very lawfull one, and which in my judgement, I am
obliedged to obey. Wherefore till he have fatiffied the Generall Aflemblie
I cannot invite him to any charge, either in the Church or Schools, accord
ing to the order of our Church.
3. I conceave that Mr. Patrick Gillefpie is not furnifhed with that meafure
of learning which the place of our Principall does neceflarily require.
Thefe things, at your Honours commands, I doe
fubfcryve.
Glafgow, February 10th 1653. [ROBERT BAILLIE.]
FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE COMMISSIONERS FOR VISITATION OF
THE UNIVERSITIES.
•
RIGHT HONOURABLE,
YOUR Honours letter came to our hands on Saturday at night, the 5th
of this inflant. According to your commands we did communicat it to the
Prefbyterie, at their firft meeting, on Tuefday thereafter ; whereunto they re
turned the inclofed anfuer, which now we fend unto yow with ane exprefle
of our owne, humbly intreating that, in your accuflomed juftice and equitie in
the like cafes, notwithftanding of any mifinformation from thefe who differ
from us, yow would be pleafed to believe, that in this whole matter we have
indeavoured to doe no more than what in confcience we did eileem ourfelves
obliedged to doe, and without all purpofe to doe the lead offence to any of
your Honours. For what ever may be the difference of our judgments
from yow in fome things, yet it hes been, is, and mall be our refolution, fo
farr as the Lord will give us wifdome, to walk fo humbly and circumfpe6lly
therein, as to be loath to give any juft ground of exception againft us. Be-
feeking that we may finde this benigne and charitable interpretation with
your Honours, we reft,
Your Honours, in all Chriftian duetie,
R. BAYLIE.
GEO. YOUNG.
Glafgow, Thurfday, February 10th 1653.
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FOR OUR HONOURED FRIENDS MR. ROBERT BAYLIE AND MR. GEORGE
YOUNG, AT GLASGOW.
GENTLEMEN,
WHEREAS power and authoritie is given to us, the Commiffioners for Vifit-
ing the Univerfities, Colledges, and Schools of learning in Scotland, by the
Parliament of England, to fee all vacant Churches in this land fupplied with
godly and able miniflers, according to our former declaration, we conceave
it fitt, at this time alfo, by letter to give yow notice thereof, that fo ye may
forbear to attempt to fettle any minifter in any church within your Prefby-
terie, without our approbation, leaft ye contract a further trouble upon
yourfelves, and the people whom ye thinke to pleafure therein. This is
the defire of
GEO. SMYTH.6
EDW. MOYSLEY.
Edinburgh, February 10th 1653. ROB. SALTONSTALL.
We defyre this may be communicat to the reft of the Miniftrie that
are with yow.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND WELL-BELOVED BROTHER, MR. DAVID DICKSON,
AT EDINBURGH.
REVEREND BROTHER,
Yow will perceave by the inclofed what ftormes Mr. Patrick Gillefpie hes
been brewing againft us from the Englifh ; and indeed, if God prevent it
not, he is like to make them fall upon me the firft, of all the minifters of
Scotland, but not the laft, that fo he may have, without any more impedi
ment, the full rule of our Colledge and Prefbyterie, which long he hes been
feeking, and is now on point of receaving it. I have great comfort and
6 George Smyth, Esq. and Edward Mosely, Esq. were two of the English Judges or Com
missioners appointed for the Administration of Justice in Civil Cases in Scotland, 18th May
1652.
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peace of mind for the time, that, when the word comes, I have not drawn
it on by any wrong done to any men. How innocent, and little reflecting on
Mr. Patrick, my cariage hes been in the matter of the Colledge, you will
fee in my anfwer to the Judge's letter to our Colledge ; and what neceffitie
wes laid upon us, not to be hindered in doeing the dueties of our calling
upon ane human unlawfull command, yow will fee in the Preflbyterie's
letter to the fame Judges, wherein we were all fully unanimous, and none
more nor our brethren Mr. James Fergufibn and Mr. Patrick Colvile,
though, in fome circum (lances, they did modeftlie differ that day from the
reft. We conceaved ourfelves neceffitate to goe on, without delay, to
the ordination, not only becaufe we fand no juft nor legall caufe of any
delay, which all acknowledged ; hot alfo, on the delay of never fo few dayes,
we faw a great many more difficulties coming upon us than we durfl ven
ture upon. This cafe is a leading on to all Scotland, and will be a beginning
of fore perfecution to many, if God prevent it not. I wifti yow may doe
your beft endeavour to hold off us now, and yourfelff next, this ftorme.
The Judges hes their meeting on Monday upon thefe matters. I wifh
that yow, with Mr. H. M'Kell, and Mr. G. Hutchefone, did fpeak with the
Judge Smyth together, at lead that yourfelff did fpeake with him to take our
letter in good part ; yow muft doe it fome time on Sunday, or not at all.
I have fent yow two doubles of all, the one, when yow there have considered
them, to be fent to Mr, James Wood, with my letter to him, and the other
to Mr. Robert Ker, with the firft fure hand Mr. Alexander can find. Yow
had need to take courfe for a very frequent Commiffion at your next quarter
ly meeting. It lyes on yow to give fair warning, and tymeous advertifement,
that the fpoiling of the liberties of the Kirk of the higheft confequence, and
the corrupting of our Univerfities, may not be done before our eyes, and
we be altogether filent ; fuch pufillanimitie and unfaithfullnefs will provocke
the Lord, grieve and ftumble many, incourage our adverfaries, and nothing
prevent our perfecution. The Lord help and direct yow in this bufinefs.
Let me hear from yow with this my exprefs. The teftimoniall yow defired,
when I confidered it with your fonne, I thought not meet to crave it, for the
reafons which will fatiffie yow at meeting. The Lord be with yow.
Your Brother,
Glafgow, February 10th 1653. R. B.
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Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, after advyfement with thefe of his mind, both eaft
and weft, it feemes is refolved, without more delay, to take from the Englifh
our Principall' s place, and to be a ftirrer up of them to perfecute us all.
He invites carefully our new Divinitie Profeffor, Mr. John Young, to be a
member of his feparate Prefbyterie, though neither minifter nor ruleing
elder, which is likelie the other will accept of. He is likelie to fummond us
before the Civile Judge for the delyverance of our Prefbyterie book to
him, and fo to make the Englifh determine, which of us are the right Prefby
terie, Synod, and Generall AfTemblie, to whom the rights of the Kirk, and
ftipends, etc., doe belong : The man is reftlefs.
After advyfement, we have thought fitt not to prefent our Prefbyterie' s
and Colledge letter to the Judges before Monday at night, only to make
way by Mr. John Flefher to fpeak them according to the information, hot
not to give it them in write, for they will but fend it to Mr. Patrick Gillef
pie to make a needlefs noife on it, and to tell, that fatiffadlory letters are
comeing. It is neceffare to keep very fecret both the Englifh letter to us,
and our anfwers to them, for if they goe abroad, it will irritat them als-
much as any thing elfe : we are on a ticklifh buffinefs ; we had need of much
prayer to God. If the Lord be pleafed to keep my foul in the light and
life I have this while enjoyed, I am fecure of the event ; it muft be good,
blefled be his holy name. In this point of tryell there feemes no darknefs
to me at all.
FOR MR. ROBERT KER. FEBRUARY K)TH 1653.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
Yow will fee, in my letter to Mr. Dickfon, and the papers I fent him to
be communicat with yow, what is our condition. I wifh, on the fight here
of, yow came in and conferred with him ; he hes need to be ftrengthened
and directed. Let me hear from yow the firfl occafion. The Lord be
with yow.
Your Brother, *
R. B.
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FOR MB. JAMES WOOD. FEBRUARY lOxn 1653.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
Yow have here bot a part of our long (lories, yow will confider them, and
acquaint Mr. Andrew Honyman, Mr. David Forreft, and Mr. James Sharp
with all. Mr. Robert Blair is not for reading of papers ; acquaint him with
what of the matter yow think fitt. Yow have here my Lord Wigton's in
formation to a friend ; the grievances wherefore we called the committee ;
our anfwer to the Englifh letter ; my anfwer to their letter to the Colledge ;
my letter to Mr. Dickfon. I hope yow will not condemne us of raflmefs, who
would not be (lopped by the Englifli letter to doe our duetie, and execute
the commiffion laid on us by the Afiemblie, the commiflion of the Church,
and Pre(byterie. Our (lay had been very fcandalous and hurtfull, though
our goeing on we forefaw it full of hazard ; but after much feeking of God,
and mutuale advyce, all of us thought it bed not to take that (loppe.
The Lord his will be done. I hope to fee yow at the Commiffion ; I wifli
it may be frequent. The Lord be with yow.
Your Brother,
R. B.
My heartie affections to your neighbour, my Lord Balcarras and his Ladie.
FOR MR. JAMES WOOD. FEBRUARY 14TH 1653.
JAMES,
YOURS from St. Andrewes the fexth of this inftant I receaved this day.
Yow complaine of my long filence ; I have, I hope, anfwered abundantly by
my large packett this laft week. I add now this paflage : This morning the
Re6lor fummoned us to a meeting, to hear what Mr. Patrick Gillefpie would
fay to the Facultie. The Vice-Chancellor, Mr. Zacharie Boyd, wes ficke ; the
Dean of Facultie, Mr. George Young, wes abfent, on what occafion I yet
know not ; the afleflbrs were not defired by the beddell to meet ; the four
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Regents and I keept with the Rector. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie told us, that
though as yet he could not fullie nor finallie accept the Principall's charge he
wes invited to, yet he would offer us this overture, That till the Generall
Aflemblie, which, rightlie conflitute, had ane great oversight of Univerfitie
places, he would be content to accept fo much of that charge as might ftand
with his miniftrie in the toune, to overfee the difcipline of the houfe, and to
doe what elfe he wes able in that charge. When he wes removed, I defyred
them to advyfe till to-morrow before we concluded anything in a matter of
that confequence. Two of the principall members were abfent ; none of
the afleflbrs were fummonded. The matter wes totallie new ; a Principall in
part, not fullie for a time, not finallie, bot till a Generall Aflemblie rightlie
conftitute ; a Principall with a full miniftrie in the towne ; a Principall, upon
no invitation from the Colledge, bot fome private men, after a Facultie had
judiciallie refuifed all invitation. Such things were great novelties, de-
ferveing one night's advyfement ; notwithftanding the Rector put it to a
vote, and caried to accept Mr. Patrick's offer, to admit him prefentlie Princi
pall, and take his oath of doeing his duetie in that charge. Againft this I
did protefl, as a violation of the rights of the Church of Scotland, and
priviledge of our Univerfitie, and for diverfe other caufes, to be produced in
time and place. When Mr. Patrick is called in he is put to his oath. I
at length debated with him upon the former and other reafones, calmely,
without heat, yet fadly ; but when I had faid all, without any fcruple he
accept[ed the] charge, and gave his oath of faithfull adminiftration ; and
prefently moved, that our factor, a near allye of mine, might be removed, and
Mr. John Spreule choifen in his place, which accordingly wes done ; and a
new meeting appointed by our Principall to regulate all our Colledge
affaires. Thus goes the game with us. This to me is a demonftration that
there is more betwixt that partie and the Englifh than we yet know.
I have read more than the half of that good book,7 much more Mr.
Guthrie's, as I take it, than my Lord Wariilone's. I thought it needfull
7 " The Nullity of the pretended Assemblie at Saint Andrewes and Dundee : Wherein are
contained. The Representation for Adjournment; The Protestation and Reasons thereof; to
gether with a Review and Examination of the Vindication of the said Pretended] Assem
bly, &c. Printed in the year 1652/' 4to. The Vindication of the Assembly was written by
James Wood ; and the Review, probably by Guthrie. from Warriston's notes.
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to anfwer it prefentlie with five or fix fheets, or at mod within ten, of
Animadverfions, fetting down the points whereto their controverfie is now
drawne, efpeciallie the heads of the Weftern Remonftrance, which there,
and the grofTefl of their tenets, are all clearlie defended. I thought to
have done it myfelf, bot feeing the vaine jangleings of the body of the
book are mere formalities of federunts of meetings and niggie-naggies, for
no edification, I utterlie abhorred the labour, and caft by the book, fending
my advyce to Mr. Ker that yow fhould not meddle with it, whofe way
is infinite, bot fend fome few fhort notes, if yow can be fhort, to Mr. Robert
Knox, or Mr. John Smyth, or if he would think on it, Mr. Robert Ker
himfelf, who for a folid, fuccinc~l, handfome, modeft taking anfwer, I con-
ceave would doe it better than any other, and thefe ftill are my thoughts
of that matter. Will yow let Lockier triumph whole yeares ?8 O lazinefs,
lazinefs I To the anfwer of my Lord Warriflone, I would prefix the Weft-
em Remonftrance, and Mr. Blair's cenfure on it. Muircraft's letter to
Lancaftiire was Mr. Rutherfoord's, as himfelf fayes. See the Commifiion
may be frequent. The Lord help us, our florm is but growing.
Your Brother,
Glafgow, Mononday, February 14th 1653. R. B.
INSTRUCTIONS TO MR. GEORGE YOUNG, FOR EDINBURGH.
APRIL STH 1653.
OUR DuTenting Brethren being extraordinarie diligent to fill all vacant
places with no other but oppofers of the laft Generall Afiemblie, for this end,
ufing many both cunning and violent devices, and in the Weft coming too
good fpeed ; fome of us, who to our power have been watching againft
their evill defignes, are now almoft fainting, and if not afiifted at this time
by our brethren, are almoft inclineing to fit ftill and give all over to their
' Lockyer (i -ide sujira, p. 177) preached at Edinburgh a lecture-sermon, "concerning the
matter of a Visible Church," which he published under this title ; — " A Little Stone out of the
Mountain : Church-Order briefly opened, by Nicholas Lockyer, Minister of the Gospel.
Printed at Leith, by Evan Tyler, anno 1652." 18mo. It was refuted at great length by James
Wood, Professor of Theology in St. Andrews, in a volume printed at Edinburgh, 1 654, 4to.
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will, to make havock of all, with our diflent alone and fruitlefs protef-
tations.
1. What extraordinarie toyle we had in the planting of the two laft vacant
places of Cathcart and Leinzie, the countrey knowes. The Baronie of
Glafgow is now on the flage ; the Seflion and people are fullie in our mind,
except a very few. Our diflenting brethren are labouring by thefe few to
have a minifter oppofite to the Generall Affemblie ; if they obtain this, our
caufe will hereby receive a wound almofl incurable. To prevent this, the
only remedie we can thinke on for the time, is to gett to that people fome
eminent man, without all exception. Doubtlefs Mr. James Hamiltone is
one fuch. We have fpoken of him, and all that people, as we think, with
out exception of one man, would embrace him moft gladlie : we know the
Towne of Edinburgh is not able to pay all the minifters, and gladlie would
be content to have fewer. We think Mr. James Hamiltone, (however als-
weell beloved as any there,) yet if he could be difmhTed to this eafy and
weell-provided charge, would have als fair ane occafion to ferve his mafter,
and provyde for his family, as ever he had or can readilie have ; his being
here would flrengthen and encourage us exceedinglie. If Mr. Robert Dow-
glafs, and Mr. David Dickfon, and fome few more, would befriend us,
we think the Prefbyterie of Edinburgh and To wn-Counfell would pity us
and him, and grant that paroche and our Prefbyterie's earneft fupplication
for his tranfportation. To try if this favour may be obtained, we have fent
Mr. George Young to the parties chiefly interefted. If this cannot be ob
tained, we truelie know not what to doe, but to give our oppofers that moil
confiderable Church, and with it all other that fliall vaike among us here
after. We will fitt downe and mourne, but we can ftryve no longer, if our
brethren affift us not in this particular.
2. Farder, in our Synod the next week we will prefs, That men depofed
and fufpended by the Generall Aflemblie, and elders avowing their protefta-
tion againft the Generall Aflemblie, may not have voice among us : when
they, contrare to exprefle Adls of Aflemblies, will fitt and voice, and by their
voice carrie the Synod to all they will, fhall not we, (when the more part,)
when fuch voters are numbered, goe and keep the Synod by ourfelves ? or
fhall we goe and leave them ? or fliall we fitt ftill with a proteilation, and let
them goe on to appoint purging committees ? We think it bed to keep a
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Synod apart. If our brethren there will approve us herein, we entreat
their counfell and direction.
3. When our Prefbyterie, with a Committee from the Generall Aflemblie,
have gone to try and admitt Mr. James Ramfay9 to the Leinzie, according to
the order of our Kirk, our diffenting brethren procured ane order from
the Englifh, difcharging us to give any ordination in our bounds, without
then* approbation goeing before ; and when, with modeft words and flrong
arguments as we could ufe, we had excufed ourfelves, and gone on to or
dination, the fame brethren procured a charge to our brother Mr. James, not
to preach in that church, and to the people not to hear him, under high
paynes ; and a few of them, not content to have procured thofe incroach-
ments of the Englifti, are goeing on as a Prefbyterie, in a procefs againft
our brother, on the pretext of fcandalls, which, when all diligence is ufed
to try him to the uttermofl, nothing can be found but two vaine words,
though all were true which malice alleadges. What here fhall be done ?
Shall our brother preach, and fuffer fyning and imprifonment ? or (hall he
forbear ?
4. When the Englifti hes put in a depofed minifter to be Principall of our
Colledge, for the poifoning of the feminarie, is there no remeid after our
Proteftation ? (hall we fitt flill in filence ?
Our meflenger, Mr. George [Young], having flayed here a week longer
than we intended, we crave your direction in thefe particulars farder : —
1. Though by our threats of ane Anti- Synod, we obtained the difTolution
of our Synod before conflituton, yet our difTenters, by the cannie convey
ance of fome, obtained a confultative committee for our differences ; which we
could not well get putt off, though we faw it would prove at length very
factious to us. Yow will read the tennor of it. The firft work, and gene-
rallie intended, is to vifite the Prefbyterie of Glafgow. What fhall we doe
herein ? We, with much adoe, have gotten our anfwer delayed for twenty
dayes, till, in a fecret way, we might have your advyce. We purpofe to offer
Union in the termes the Generall Aflemblie allowes, that is, the exclufion
9 He was the son of Mr. Robert Ramsay. Bail lie speaks of him in terms of high com
mendation; and in a letter addressed to Spang, 1st September 165 6, he notices his transla
tion from Leinzie to Linlithgow.
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of depofed minifters and protefting ruling elders ; but if this be refufed, as
certainlie it will, we mud delay our joyning with them who, without caufe,
feparate from us, till the Generall AfTemblie or Commiffion of the Kirk
fhall otherwife appoint. Our joyning with them in the termes which they
alone will accept of, burying all publick differences, is but to give them the
caufe to ftrengthen their fchifme, to make them to wrack whom they will,
as we think they purpofe to doe diverfe.
2. We find more of their crueltie againfl Mr. James Ramfay, to pro
nounce fome kind of new fentence againft him, notwithstanding of his declyn-
ing of them as no judicatorie ; yea, they purpofe to plant his church with
fome other, over the head of all heritors, feflion, and almoft all the people ;
and in this they doe free the paroche from the Englifli, who have appointed
Mr. Beverlie to be minifler there, at the defire of twenty feven perfones,
the chief of thefe whom our brethren flirred up to oppofe Mr. James
Ramfay.
3. We underftand, by the direction of fome, thefe people of Leinzie, now
declared fectaries, are to petition the Englifh to inhibite the fitting of our
Prefbyterie as a null Prefbyterie, under the paine of fequeflration to all
minifters and elders who fhall fitt, and to all that fhall appear before us. Is
there no remeid for this ? Doe the Englifh at London allow Judge Moyfley
to execute all Mr. Patrick Gillefpie's devyces, to the utter overthrow of all
our church liberties, and the cruell wracking of all who muft adhere to
their duetie.
4. Yefterday there was delivered to us a letter, fubfcryved by Mr. Andrew
Cant, diredled to Mr. Robert Baylie and Mr. James Ferguflbn, to be com-
municat to the reft of our mind in the Weft, a large and injurious inveclive
againft all who will not joyne with the protefters to ferve the enemie to con
tinue the yocke of ftrangers for ever on their native countrie, and to lay a
neceflitie on the confciences of people, to exclude, without all caufe, the
King, the Nobilitie, and all who will not be profelytes to them, from poffeffing
their civile rights. It feems to us exceeding neceflare to caufe revife all the
wrytes of thefe fchifmatique men, and draw their tenets together in their
own words, that the world may fee their principles in a fhort mappe, whereby
they overthrow not only the government of our Church and Kingdome, but
the grounds of all Civile government any where in the world. This fhort
VOL. in. 2 E
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inappe we wifh backed with reafons againft their principall tenets, and
anfwers to the chiefe objections : We think Mafters John Smith, Robert
Hamilton, and Robert Ker, would be put to this talke.
FOR MR. ROBERT DOWGLASS. APRIL STH 1653.
SIR,
As our prayers to God were for your gracious upholding, dureing the
time of your imprifonment, fo have we heartilie bleffed God for your happie
delyverance and fafe return to your flation, with the great joy of all in the
Nation who love the welfare of it. Sundry of us here who defyre to be
faithfull, have fent one of our number, Mr. George Young, to falute yow
and your fellow prifoners, and rejoyce with yow in our name for all the
kindnefs the Lord hath fhowen to yow and to us ; yea, the whole land, in your
perfones, dureing the time of your fuffering for the publick, and for us in
your common caufe. The God of Heaven be bleffed who hath mercifullie
preferred yow all, and returned yow free to us of all, and adorned with
much praife to the grace of God, who, all the tyme of your tryell has en
abled yow to walk exemplarly in faithfullnefs, courage, humilitie, patience,
and wifdome, for the great comfort of many of both nations, though to the con-
fufion and griefe of fome. We truft the fame grace of God (hall enable yow to
the end to goe through what remains of farder tryell, and make others in thefe
miserable times to undergoe, by your example, with the greater chearfullnefs
and confidence, what piece of affliction the Lord fliall thinke fitt to meafure
out unto them. It is no fmall joy and ftrength to us all, that we have gotten
yow againe, to be advyfed and directed by yow, as we wont to be in all our
perplexed caufes. For the time, there be fundry things we have directed the
bearer to intreat your counfell and afiiftance. If yow think it fitt, at the firft
houre of your leafure, we wifti yow called to your chamber, Mafters David
Dickfon, John Smith, James Hamilton, Mungo Law, or any yow think
fitt to hear our brother, in what we have inflru6led him to propone unto yow,
that, after confutation, yow may fend us your advyce what to doe, for at this
time we have great need. The Lord's beft bleffings be upon yow, and pre-
i'erve yow long with us in thefe very miferable and dangerous times. So
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prayes to God many of your brethren here, who have directed me to write to
this purpofe.
Your very loveing Brother, R. B,
FOR MR. DAVID DICKSON. APRIL 28TH 1653.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
ACCORDING to your defyre with Mr. George Young, Mr. James Ferguffon,
and Mr. Patrick Colville, are come in. Mr. James hes ane anfwer to Mr.
Andrew Cant's letter, which at the firft reading I liked fo weell, that with a
fmall or no review, after it's gone to Mr. Andrew Cant firft, it may goe to
the preffe, for good advantage to the truth, till our other wrytes may come
forth. My Wife and youngeft daughter are under a languifhing difeafe, both
liker to die than live ; alfo my charge and diftraclions are fuch that I can
doe nothing in the public! for the time. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie and the reft
of his minde, are become fo impudent as to fett themfelves with all their
ftrength againft Mr. James Hamilton's coming among us. But if they carie
that point our caufe will be worfe than before. The people in the Barronie
are paffionatly for him, which they have putt under their hands, except a
very few yeomen, whom our brethren diverts, and who are like, if not pre
vented, to make the Barronie in the cafe of Kilbryde and Leinzie. To pre
vent this, we have been content to take truce for a moneth till our next meet
ing, that, in the meantyme, we may have help from our brethren there to keep
the Englifh off us, and to difpofe Mr. James's owne mind to mifregard the
malice of that handfull, ftirred up only by unreasonable men, to further their
error and. deftruetive delignes. Mr. James Ferguffon will informe yow of
all. Communicat this letter to Mr. Mungo Law and Mr. John Smith, from
whom I expect all the help they are able, as they love either us or the pub-
Ii6l. Mr. Robert Dowglafs muft help us, or we muft faint, and give all over.
So foon as my familie will permitt me, I purpofe to come in and fee yow.
After yow have fpoken together, faill not to wryte your advyce to me, be-
fydes what yow think fitt to fpeak by tongue, with Mr. James [Ferguffon] :
his pen, yow fee, is exceeding good : I wifli yow had from him fome obfer-
vations on the Nullity. The Lord help yow.
Your Brother, R. B,
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FOR MR. MUNGO LAW.
MUNGO,
I HAVE defyred Mr. David Dickfon to (how yow and Mr. John Smith
my letter to him, which I pray yow call for, and confider. Mr. James Fer-
guflbn will informe yow farder. Let me know, with Mr. James, what hopes
and encouragements we may have from yow, whether companion, wifdome,
and zeale, will caufe yow to let Mr. James Hamilton come to us, and con-
firme him againft thefe unreafonable creatures plotts ; but above all, to tell
us, if, by God's blefling, yow can foe reprefent truth to Mr. Moyfley, as he,
on the exceeding falfe informations of our oppofites, will not goe on to make
havock of our churches with foe tyrannous and high opprefiion, that I per-
fuade myfelfe his maflers in England will have no caufe to give him thanks
for. Inftead of granting Mr. James Ramfay the favour he expected from
him in his lad letter to my Lord Wigton, he hath difcharged him to preach
in the neighbour churches, which is to make his cafe worfe than it wes ; and
yet yefterday, at our meeting, when we put Mr. Patrick Gillefpie to it, to
read all thefe terrible fcandalls, for which he wont to fay, we would depofe
his Father, there wes nothing but the two particulars ye heard, which not
one of our meeting, bot one wife man, did think deferved any farder than a
Prefbyteriall rebuke : I hear fince that two other alfo wes [for] fome farder.
Let me know if yet yow can gett Judge Moyfley off him, and off my good
neighbour, who will never ceafe to fyre all with new motions, week after
week, according to his reftleflhefs. Communicat this to Mr. John Smith.
Yours, R. B.
They are moveing to celebrate a communion here, which will fett all in
flame : our Magiftrates and all their partie, who hes advyfed to take places
from the Englifli, mud be excluded ; the Seflions protefting againft the Gene-
rail Aflemblie we will hardly admit ; they will exclude fuch multitudes for one
caufe or for ane other, that the end will be the fetting up of a new refyned
congregation of their owne adherents. We purpofe, by all the fair means we
can, to keep off thefe very untimeous motions. In the mean time, let us have
your advyce in this alfo.
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FOR MR. RODGERS'S MOTHER-IN-LAW, AT NEWCASTLE.
MISTRES,
YOURS of the llth of March I receaved ; but before this I could not give
yow ane particular account of your defires ; the liberall almes yow fent to me
doubtlefs the Lord will accept and reward it ; it refrefhed the bo wells of one
and twenty houfeholders, almoft all widowes, for to foe many did I give it ;
to nineteen ten millings, to two fyve. I fent to Mr. Rodgers Mr. Patrick
Gillefpie's teftificate of this, as he required : I held up your name as yow
required, except in a. general!. I doe compaffionate the afflicted condition,
both of your body, mind, and eftate, whereof yow write to me ; bot the
Father of Mercies, and God of all Confolation, is able to caufe your com
forts fuperabound above all your fufferings. Your experience, now of a long
time, of the Lord's love, obliedges yow to have hope and confidence of ane
happie iflue out of all temptations ; only continue to feek, and yow fhall find
more kindnefs in Chrift than yow can alk or think, for his mercies endureth
for ever ; however your daughter's error and fon's flight fpirit doe grieve
your heart, yet give not over to pray, and wait for the Lord's returne ; the
feed of prayer for our children may have a plentifull harvefl long after our
death, though* it appear not above ground fo long as we live : your fighs are
regiftrate in the Lord's book, and your tears put up in his bottle, to come
downe in a fhowre of healing grace ; yow know not when, only be waiting
and hopeing, were it in death, above hope, and all yow can fee, that your
Covenant promifes are keept in the hand of Chrift, even for your children's
children ; reft upon the Lord for them, without too much anxietie ; he keeps
tymes and feafons of working in his own hand, and let him injoy that his
foveraigne prerogative.
Our woeful and very caufelefs divifions doe yet continue to fome of us
very grievous, but as yet remedilefs, except we would forfake that which our
confcience fayes to us is truely and right ; for which our Mafter commands
us to contend for, bot with all the humilitie and charitie towards our
fellow-fervants, which we, through the mercies of God, can attain to. Thefe
moft unfeafonable queftions are a part of the Lord's hand on us, which we
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mud bear till the Lord returne, and caufe his owne face fhyne clearer among
us. The Lord's beft bleflings be with your fpirit and familie. I reft,
Your Brother and Servant in Chrift,
Glafgow, May 2d 1653. R. B.
FOR MR. DAVID DICKSON.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THAT now I come not to the Commifiion, and that long agoe I came not
to fee Mr. Dowglafs and the brethren, it is fore againft my heart ; hot my
Wife hes, thefe fix weeks and more, been in that condition that I could not be
abfent from her, and yet I have hot fmall hopes of her life. Upon your
laft letter with Mr. James Ferguflbn, I have done my beft to have to yow
my little^m&o/wm : make what ufe of it yow find expedient ; only let it be
in private, and not come abroad, for it's of that ftrain that might bring me
to cumber. I think Mr, James FergufTon's letter may well goe abroad.
Caufe Mr. Dowglafs joyne with yow to fett on Mr. James Durhame effeclu-
allie : he will be with yow the next week ; he hes declared himfelff a little
more againft our brethren's way : yow may doe him good. Their way
thryves no where in Scotland fo much as here about, whereof I conceave
Mr. Durhame the chiefe inftrument, though oft befide his purpofe : the man
is of exceeding great weight defervedly. I have defired him to write Cafe-
Divinitie,1 wherein he is excellent, and daylie growes. If yow further not Mr.
James Hamilton's dimiflion to us, yow lofe our Prefbyterie, and inbeares to
the public! caufe, for we will not be able to ftrive more, hot give it over.
Advyfe with the brethren what ihall be done in Mr. James Ramfay's ftrong
cafe ; if it be neglected, yow will have many more fuch fhortlie ; and, how
ever, even his cafe alone muft not be forgotten by yow, to whom he and we,
who have intereft in it, are dear. The Lord be with yow. So foone as I
may, I (hall, God willing, come in.
Your Brother,
May 21ft Saturday 1653. R. B.
1 That is, Casuistic Divinity, or Cases of Conscience.
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My papers, that have coft me labour, keep them well, that I may get them
againe, when I come or fend for them, for I have no other legible copy.
[To MR. RICHARD ROBERTSON. JULY 26xH 1653.]
MR. RICHARD,
THAT the other day, when yow did read your Notes in our meeting, my
grieve and anger appeared more than ordinary ; fince yow crave of me the
reafon, I give it to yow now as I promifed in write, that yow may lay the
matter more to heart, and I may be exonered both towards you and others,
efpeciallie, if (which the Lord forbid) yow mould continue in your judgement,
and refufe the wholfome counfell of all your brethren.2
Thefe paffages I have Ihortly poynted at, wifhing yow not only to fcrape
them out for our fatiffa6lion, as very fcandalous errors, which I fee yow are
now willing enough to doe ; hot really to mind their fin before God, and to
mourne for your unhappinefs, that in thefe miferable tymes have been the
firft who have labored to corrupt our Univerfitie, with diverfe pernicious and
tbul deftroying errors, as fundry of the forenamed are, if I underftand rightly
the nature of error.
FOR MR. ROBERT BAYLIE.
SIR,
WHEREAS, in your paper, yow accufe me of Sabellianifme, in denying the
Trinitie of Perfons. 2. Of Neftorianifme, in denying the Union of the
Divine and Humane Nature in the one perfon of Chrift. 3. Of Blafphemie,
2 Robertson was admitted one of the Regents or Professors in the College of Glasgow, 29th
July 1649. In this letter, Baillie, at great length, made remarks on thirty-one passages of
his Latin Dictates or Lectures, which contained various points of unsound doctrine, quoted
in the margin of Baillie's MS.; but these remarks and extracts being obviously unsuited for
a work like the present, are omitted. Soon after this Robertson resigned his Professorship
on the plea of ill-health : Vide infra, pp. 239-240.
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in making God the author of fmne. 4. Of other Blafphemies, in denying
the Unitie of God, or the unfuccefive permanencie of that attribute of God's
Eternitie : I detefl all thefe horrid things, in my judgement ; and if, from any
antecedents in my Notes, thefe confequents doe not neceflarly follow, I doe
not owne my Notes in fo farre, hot deteft both the antecedents and confe
quents. But to write of the particulars, and to examine them at length, my
bodilie weaknefs will not permitt me now.
Whereas yow make me worfe than Vorftius, truely Sir, in the feetion after
that de Subfijlentia, I expreflie oppofe and refute Vorftius, who queftions
God's fimplicitie, and I anfwer his arguments as I can. If I be not de-
ceaved, when Vorftius calls Eternitie fuccefiive, he makes it fome inward
accident in God, (which is blafphemie I think,) but I mean no fuch thing,
but only that hodie et eras coexift not ; and, therefore, when God coexifts
to this day, he doth not Jimul coexift to the next day, becaufe the next day
• is not yet ; but I mean no fucceffion at all in God, but only in the creature
without him.
In the matter of the Holy Trinitie, I doe not deny any thing, (I mean
now whatever unadvyfed expreffions be in the Notes), I think the myfterie
moft evident from the Word ; but for the way of it, I think it fafeft to
keep our conceptions and expreflions within the fimplicitie of the Scripture,
and to wait for the clear underftanding of the manner of it in Heaven. This
is all that I have to fay, Sir. The Lord lay not to your charge the heavie
accufations yow lay on me.
RlCH. ROBERTSONE.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER MR. CALAMY, MINISTER AT
LONDON.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THIS, my third to yow, is only to give thanks for your kind acceptance,
and anfwering in deed, of my two former. Mr. Wilkie, our commifiioner,
hes reported fo much of your care to us, to promove to the uttermoft of your
power the charitable fupply of our diftrefled people, that all of us are much
obliedged to blefs God in your behalfe, who hes made yow inftrumentall to
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procure a liberall fupport, both in your owne congregation, and over all the
city, to the many families of this wracked people with that flrangeft fire that
ever was heard of in our land. I am confident enough of your readinefs to
goe on for the perfyteing of what is fo weell begun, even to give your bell
advyce and affiflance to this fame gentleman, whom we have fent againe, with
fome others, to receave, in the city and countrey, what mall be freely offered
by the pious benevolence of thefe whofe hearts God mall ftirr up, by yow and
your brethren, to contribute to that work of compaflion and charitie.
At this time I have no more to adde, hot this one word, to let yow know,
That on the 20th of July laft, when our Generall Affemblie wes fett in the
ordinarie tyme and place, Lieutenant- Colonell Cotterall befett the Church with
fome rattes of mufqueteirs and a troup of horfe ; himfelf, (after our faft, where
in Mr. Dickfon and Mr. Dowglafs had two gracious fermons,) entered the Af-
femblie-houfe, and, immediately after Mr. Dickfon the Moderator his prayer,
required audience ; wherein he inquired, If we did fitt there by the authority
of the Parliament of the Commonwealth of England ? or of the Commanders-
in-Chiefe of the Englifh forces ? or of the Englifh Judges in Scotland ? The
Moderator replyed, That we were ane Ecclefiaflicall fynod, ane Spirituall
court of Jefus Chrift, which medled not with any thing Civile ; that our
authoritie wes from God, and eflablifhed by the Lawes of the land yet Hand
ing unrepealed ; that, by the Solemn League and Covenant, the moft of the
Englifh army flood obliedged to defend our Generall Affemblie. When fome
fpeeches of this kind had paffed, the Lieutenant- Colonell told us, his order
wes to diffolve us ; whereupon he commanded all of us to follow him, elfe
he would drag us out of the rowme. When we had entered a Proteflation
of this unheard-of and unexampled violence, we did ryfe and follow him ;
he ledd us all through the whole ftreets a myle out of the towne, encompaff-
ing us with foot-companies of mufqueteirs, and horfemen without ; all the
people gazing and mourning as at the faddefl fpectacle they had ever feen.
When he had ledd us a myle without the towne, he then declared what
further he had in commiflion, That we mould not dare to meet any more
above three in number ; and that againfl eight o'clock to-morrow, we mould
depart the towne, under paine of being guiltie of breaking the publick peace :
And the day following, by found of trumpet, we were commanded off towne
under the paine of prefent imprifonment. Thus our Generall Affemblie, the
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glory and flrength of our Church upon earth, is, by your fouldiarie, crufhed
and trod under foot, without the leall provocatione from us, at this tune,
either in word or deed. For this our hearts are fadd, our eyes runn downe
with water, we figh to God againft whom we have finned, and wait for the
help of his hand ; hot from thofe who opprefled us we deferved no evill. We
hear a noife of farder orders, to difcharge all our Synods and Prefbyteries,
and all prayer for our King : many the mod moderate reckons fuch orders
will make havock of our Church, and raife againft many the beft men we
have, a fore perfecution which, God willing, we purpofe to endure all pa
tience and faith, giving juft offence to none.
I detaine yow no more. The Lord mind his Zion in thefe lands, and
blefle yow, who for the tyme ftand in the moft eminent pinacle thereof.
Thus refts,
Your Brother to ferve yow,
Glafgow, 27th July 1653. R. BAYLIE.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER, MR. CLERK,* MINISTER AT
LONDON.
RKVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
YOUR kind and refpe6lfull letter I receaved from Mr. Wilkie, our towne's
commiflioner. Your afliftance to him, in furthering the charitie of your
neighbours to our diftrefTed people, I afiure [yow], wes a very good and pious
work. I muft intreat yow to continue your beft advyce and help to him for
the perfecting of what is begun, for I know there is great need of it. Your
very precious work, of the Lives of late Divines, I have read much of it ;
the defigne 1 like weell, and thinks yow can hardly fpend your tyme on a
better fubjecl:. I doe well approve your purpofe, to take in, among the reft,
our Mr. Boyd, not Bodie, though, in Latin, we call our Boyds Bodij : that
man, indeed, was one of the moft eminent divines of the Reformed Churches
for all good qualities. There is fo much, before his Commentarie on the
Epiftle to the Ephefians,3 as will be ground enough for a compleat narrative
3 The Rev. Samuel Clarke, " Pastor of Bennet Finck, London," the author of the " Marrow
of Ecclesiastical History," " A Martyrologie" &c., and other biographical works.
4 Vide lupra, p. 184. Clarke in one of his works inserts an account of Boyd of Trochrig.
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of his life. Neverthelefs I have communicate your letter to Mr. Dowglafs,
who, I fuppofe, againft the tyme yow fpeak of, may have a more perfect
narration at yow. I wifh we had a narrative of ane other of ours alfo to
fend to yow, I mean your fometime good friend Mr. Henderfone, a truely
heroick divine, for piety, learning, wifdome, eloquence, humilitie, fingle
life, and every good part, for fome yeares the moll-eyed man of the three
Kingdoms. Wifhing yow good fpeed in that and the reft of your labours,
I reft.
Your Brother to ferve yow,
Glafgow, July 2?th 1653. R. BAYLIE.
FOR DR. LAZARUS SEAMAN.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
UNDERSTANDING, by our towne's agent, Mr. Wilkie's letter, your kind
remembrance of me, I thought fitt to let yow know that my remembrance of
yow is very frefh, and oft fweet to my mind, in thefe moft lamentable tymes.
It is one of the grounds of my hope, that the Lord will not be pleafed to
pennitt thefe confufions, and thefe oppreffions, to be perpetuall, when I fee
yow and others preferved in a right mind in the midft of fo great apoftacie ;
for what elfe would the Lord preferve men of eminent parts and grace, hot to
be not only prefent witneffes of truth and right, hot, in the Lord's approaching
feafon, powerfull inftruments to profligate, by their light, the prefent errors
and confufions. I did write to fome of my dear brethren there, to aflift the
bearer heirof in that lamentable buflinefs he wes fent to agent. I wrote not
to yow, thinking yow had lived at Cambridge,5 and not at London ; but
feeing it is otherwife, I intreat yow alfo to confider the gentleman's informa
tions, and further him in his work. I allure yow his papers and reports are
true : I mail need to fay no more to yow of this matter.
I have long continued in Mr. Cotton and Mr. Tombes debt : I purpofed
never to have payed thefe creditors, for thefe good reafons in my Preface ; yet
having this year a longer vacation from my charge than ordinar, I have taken
5 Dr. Seaman, Minister of Allhallows, London, was constituted Master of Peter-House,
Cambridge, llth April 1644. He was ejected at the Restoration on account of his Noncon
formity.
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fome courfe with that debt.6 I purpofe with the next to fend my papers to Mr.
Calamy. If yow be in towne, and have a little leafure, I wifh yow may
revife them, and let them goe, or fupprefle them, as yow and your orthodox
brethren ihall think fitt. The Lord be mercifull to the diftreffed nations,
and furnifhe yow, who there fland on the pinacles of the ruined temple,
with a large meafure of the Spirit of Chrift. We here oft defire to com
mend yow there to the Lord's grace.
This is one who, from my firft acquaintance, did ever highly reverence
and dearly love yow,
Glafgow, October 8th 1653. R. BAYLIE.
FROM MR. JOHN VAUCH,' IN THE CASTLE OF EDINBURGH.
»
REVEREND BROTHER,
. I HAVE many times been mindfull of yow fince I came to this place, and
wes refolved now and then to have written to yow oftner than once, were it
not that two things hindered me ; the one wes, my fear lead ye might come
to danger by my correfponding with yow at this time ; the other wes, my
very earned defyre to lurk, even in this place, not thinking myfelfe worthie
(the Lord knowes) to be taken notice of by any, bot rather to have my habi
tation amongft the owles of the defart, becaufe of my very great ufelefihefs
and fruitlefTnefs amongft the fons of men. And though this my defire of
lurking (truely not for any fear of danger in doeing of my duetie, but upon
the fore-mentioned accompt) hes been much in my heart and amongft my
wifhes. I have been fo farr from attaining it, that though the malice and
envy of my evill neighbours, and other unnaturall countreymen, (the Lord
in his wonderfull providence fo difpofmg it,) I am brought to the top of this
rock, where (I cannot bot acknowledge it to his praife) I find my God gra-
cioufly prefent with me, furnifhing me with courage, joy, peace, and content-
6 In his answer entitled " The Disswasive from the Errors of the Time, Vindicated from
the exceptions of Mr. Cotton and Mr. Tombes," which was printed at London, 1655, 4to.
7 Vauch or Waugh, who addressed this letter (under the a.:sumed name of Jamieson,) to
Baillie, was minister of Borrowstonness. He was for the time confined in Edinburgh Castle ;
His offence was praying for the King ; but he was released before the 20th July 1654 : Vide
infra, p. 253.
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ment : fo that whatever hes been in the mind, either of thefe who are in
power and put me here, or of thefe, who being their favourites, hes their ear,
and flirred them up to put me here, I dare fay, as Jofeph fpoke to his
brethren, Genefis, ult. The Lord's meaning therein is for good, and there is
a full [Covenant-] bleffing in my being here ; than full fruit whereof, though
I mould never fee myfelfe, yet I believe that not only the truely gracious,
honeft, and loyall, in the land, mall gett good thereof hereafter ; hot even
thefe alfo, who in their hatred hes had a hand in my affliction, imprifonment,
and perfecution. And amongft other mercies, I cannot hot obferve this for
one ; that though I want not my owne conflicts, privately in my mind,
anent other things, even this long time, yet in this I have no fcruple at all.
The Lord in his goodnefs hes made the ground of my fuffering very clear to
me ; honour be to His name for it ; fo that though others are ready to cry it
downe and reproach me for it, yet through the Lord's ftrength, (he calling me
to it,) I durft hazard to fuffer whatever men (hall be permitted to put me
farther unto than this fame ground. And it is my very earned defyre, that
privatelie and prudentlie, as ye may have opportunitie, ye may, in my name,
exhort your honeft brethren, and other gracious acquaintances, not to faint
or fhrink in the leaft meafure becaufe of my afflictions, bot rather to be re-
folute and bold in the Lord, in doeing of their duetie, and particularlie in
adhereing to that poynt in hand, which by men is inhibited, omitted, and
controverted ; for certainlie, as the Lord mail gett glory, and trueth ane ad-
vantagious growth, fo the faithfull fervants of Chrift mall have victorie, till
they mall be more than conquerors by your patient fuifering, even the very
uttermoft, for the truth, and for his name's fake : And for my owne part,
although I wes made to tremble at the firll alarum, and the matter lookt
fomewhat terrible while it wes afarr off, yet iince I wes helped of the Lord
to buckle with it, and by fubmiffion to his will, to lay it fully over upon him-
felff, I have found the burthen to be light and eafie ; yea, by the bearing of
it, I am helped to bear other particular burthens, which before did trouble
me not a little. And though of late I have gotten a new alarum, by threat-
ning to banifh me, yet neither that, nor the fequeftration of my ftipend, doeth
trouble me in the leaft, for I have laid my compt for the worft they can
doe. I know they are all in chains and can doe nothing, but as the Lord,
for his own honour and my good, (hall be pleafed to permitt them to doe,
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and fo whatever he fends I fliall make it welcome : Lo ! here am I, let his
Majeftie doe with me what feems good in his eyes.
I fay no more, hot referring yow to the inclofed paper, I earneftly beg
the help of your prayers, and remains,
Your loveing Brother,
November llth 1653. J. JAMISONE.
THE EARL OF LAUDEBDAILL TO MR. ROBERT BAILLIB.
REVEREND AND WORTHIE FREIND,
THESE fufferings which it hath pleaf'd God to call me to this long time
pad, having difabled me from doing any fervice to my freinds, I have for
borne to give them the unnecefTarie trouble of letters ; yet feing I am in
formed yow doe often remember me, I could not but returne yow my acknow
ledgments for the continuation of your kindenes, and to intreat the help of
your prayers, that the Lord wold fan&ifie more and more this condition
unto me, and afford me more and more teftimonies how good it is for me
that I have been afflicled. All I fliall tell yow is, that I have a greater mea-
fure of health then I could have expedled in this cours, fo different from the
life I formerly led. Althogh in that I finde great prejudice by my long re-
ftraint ; yet it pleafes God to give me fome meafure of patience and of con-
tentednes under the rod ; more then yow wold have looked for, who know
my former temper.
I will not fay any thing of publick concern which I doe not at all
medle with. All I lhall defire of yow is, that yow wold remember me to
all thofe yow know to be my freinds, and to my fometimes fellow prifoners
of your owne coate, when yow fee any of them. Be pleafed to continue your
kindenes to, and your prayers for,
Your moil affedlionat freind,
Tower, the 17th of December 1653. LAUDERDAILL.
For my reverend and worthie freind, Mr. Robert Bailly,
Profeflbr of Divinity at Glafgow.8
' The original letter thus addressed, is preserved in Wodrow MSS- Folio Vol. XLIX, No. 27.
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FOR MR. WILLIAM TAYLOR, MODERATOR OF THE PROVINCIALL SYNOD AT
LONDON.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
UNDERSTANDING, by our commiffioner Mr. Wilkie, your fingular care and
affec"lion to further that work of pietie and charitie towards my poor fuffering
neighbours, not only in your owne congregation, bot among your neigh
bours, I give yow very heartie thanks in name of my brethren, and many
honeft people here, afTureing myfelff, that this pious charitie in yow and
diverfe of your brethren, is a fweet favour both to God and men. Yow will
be intreated to affift, both by your advyce and countenance, our Commiffioner,
towards the perfyting of that worke, as he may have occafion to call on
you ; for which labour of love yow fhall have our hearty acknowledgement,
and defires to God for your reward.
I have thought fitt to acquaint yow with ane other particular : When I
was there, I and my brethren had acquaintance with Mr. Theodor Haak, a
learned and gracious gentleman of the Palatinate ; myfelf, above others,
moved him to labour in the tranflating of the Dutch Notes.9 Before I come
away he had made good progrefs in the work. I had moved Mr. Rous, and
others of my friends in the Houfe of Commons, to incourage him to that
good work : I had fpoken fome of your flationers for that end. When I
come to Scotland, 1647, I moved the Generall Affemblie, with the affiflance
of Mr. Blair and Mr. Gillefpie, to appoint him, out of their not very great
plenty, two hundred pounds fterling, for the perfecting of this work. This
foume we caufed faithfully to delyver him there, the Aflemblie, on our
report, nothing doubting of the gentleman's German, and candid honeftie
to performe his undertaking. When fome tyme had gone over, and the
book did not appear, I wrote once and againe of his promife, and my under
taking for him : at laft he returned me fomewhat a bitter anfwer, refufeing
to goe on in that work, unlefs your Parliament or Stationers would give him
further confideration. For this I and my brethren were both greeved and
alhamed. I think, for a lefle foume, I might have gotten that work done in
9 Vide supra, Letter and Note, p. 7-
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Holland : it's a pity that this piece of fervice (hould lye behind. I know
your Synod hes no jurisdiction ; yet, if the gentlemen- be in London, I think
if fome two or three, deputed from your Synod, would be pleafed to deal
with him, he might be poffiblie moved to performe that fervice, or give back
the money he got from us, as he wrote to me he would, that we might beftow
it on fome other, who, we are perfuaded, on fuch a recompence, would gladly
doe it for him. Yow will be pleafed to confider of this motion for the pub-
lick good. The tranflation of the whole Dutch Bible I think needlefs, hot
only of the Notes, like that of Diodati's. If yow cannot make ufe of my
evill hand, the bearer, Mr. Wilkie, will help yow. I reft,
Your loving Brother and Servant,
ROB. BAYLIE.
Glafgow, December 19th 1653.
THE MATERIALLS OF A PRESBYTERIALL WARNING, TO BE DRAWN WITH ALL
POSSIBLE EXPEDITION BY MR. BLAIR, AND, BY WAY OF CORRESPONDENCE,
SENT FROM THE PRESBYTERY OF ST. ANDREWES AND EDINBURGH THROUGH
THE WHOLE KlNGDOM, SO SOON AS MAY BE ; TO BE READ IN PULPITS WHERE
SAIFELY IT MAY, AND WHERE NOT, TO BE PRESSED BY ALL MINISTERS, IN
DOCTRINE AND OTHERWAYS.
Firft, To mention and lament the particular fteps of the fore judgments
of God upon the land, which yet are going on, not only towards the utter
ruin of many our greateft families, bot the totall everfion both of Church
and Kingdome, yea of the very being of the Nation.
2. To give glory to God, in acknowledging our juft deferring from] his
hand, of all that is come or comeing, by the continuall tradl of the uncontro-
verted finnes in all ranks and eftates, efpeciallie fince our late reformation
1638, notwithilanding of all God's warnings from his word, his mercies,
and judgments upon us ; above all, the finnes of our prefent unhappie divi-
fions, flupid fecuritie, and, through the incumbent terrour, the totall laying
afide by many of the cleared, oft-fworne, and covenanted dueties to God,
Church, King, and Kingdome.
3. To waken, by pithie exhortations, unto a great mourning, privatelie and
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pubh'ctlie, together and apart, to crying and wreftling with the Lord for mer-
cie, grace, and delyverance, from our great finnes and fore judgements.
4. To exhort unto the confcientious keeping of all the articles of our
Covenant, in this houre of darknefs, wherein allurements, terrours, and evill
examples brangle the flabilitie of many. The fubflance of every article
would be repeated, efpeciallie of thefe which, by the mifl of new gloffes,
are moft overclouded, and where weak ones had moil need to be con
firmed.
5. To preffe, after the ftudie of Scripture, the ferious reading of our pre
cious Confeffion, Catechifme, and Directorie, for the eftablifhing of our heart
againft the hereiies of the Anabaptifts, Antinomians, Antitrinitarians, Familifts,
Seekers, and Atheifls ; alfo the diligent perufall of the Propofitions for
government againft the fchifmatick errors of the Independents, Brownifts,
Eraftians, and others ; againft all which the Aflemblies and Parliaments of
Scotland has laboured to guard this Nation by oaths, covenants, acts, and
other means, much more than any Nation this day under heaven ever
attained : The Lord who knew our weaknefs, and forefaw this hour of
ftrong temptation coming upon us, fo providing it of his great mercie.
6. To fpeak, in the bowells of tender compaffion, and yet in the juft and
neceffare zeall of holy indignation, to the conscience of the many apoftates
of this Nation for their reclaiming, and of ftaggerers for their confirmation.
7. In the wifdome and fear of God, to fpeak a word, tentilie and cautiouflie,
to our woefull divifions of Kirk and State, without all reflection or irritation ;
to put all to a perfeverance in prayer to God, for a remead of that judiciall
evill, and to endeavour to keep all poflible charitie in their owne hearts to
wards them who differ ; and to watch carefullie, leaft by the ftumbling-block
of thefe divifions, they be tempted to fchifme or any error of the time, or to
any other way, which they know their owne heart fometimes would much
have miflyked.
8. To endeavour the compofing of the hearts of people to live quietlie
and peaceablie under the yock of the prevalent power, and to fuffer patientlie
what the Lord fhall permitt to be laid upon them in their eftate, libertie,
or perfone, for their neceffare abftinence from all they know to be finne
againft God.
9. Laftly, after a pithie exhortation to accurate walking in the practice of
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repentance, faith, love, and hope, to end with fome grounds of comfort
and expectation of deliverance, in the Lord's convenient feafon.
Thefe my Articles were agreed upon by the meeting in Edinburgh, and
fent by Mr. George Hutchefone and Mr. Hugh M'Kell to the Remonflra-
tors, particular-lie to my Lord Warriftone, my Lord Brodie, Mr. James
Guthrie, and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie ; who refufed to accept of them.
FOR MY LORD LAUDERDAILL.' GLASGOW, FEBRUARY lOxn 1654.
SIR,
That your late fhort one, and your long one a year agoe, was not anfuered,
and that yow had no frequent aneugh letters from my evill hand, came not
from want of good-will ; for except one whom I knew you would be content,
[there is] none of my afflicted countreymen, whom I ufe to remember more
•either to God or man than yourfelf : my defire to be filent and keep no
correfpondence in this evill time, was the only caufe of it. Bot underftand-
ing your mifcontent with it, I thought fitt to tell yow that I was much re-
freihed to fee under your hand the fubmiflion of your fpirit to the incum
bent calamitie. It was often my fear it (hould have broken yow both in
body and mind long before this ; bot fince God has fpared your life, which
to my apprehenfion was in great hazard, more wayes than one or two, and
has given yow to put your mouth in the duft, and take your very heavie
chaftifements out of the Lord's hands humblie and lovinglie, I am very
hopefull your iflue fhall be good. Continue your fludies to better your
knowledge, whereof I have heard much by your late companions ; bot
above all, your religious exercifes of mortification of all known vanities. As
it is often my prayer to God, fo for all is come and gone, it's my prettie
confident hope, that thefe many and great endeuments which God has
given to yow, and yow by his great mercie, I hear, have improven, (hall yet
be imployed for the good and comfort of many.
1 This letter seems from Baillie's MS. to have been addressed " To John Langtoung ;" which
may explain its commencing with " Sir." — Lord Lauderdale was still a prisoner, and in fact
he was detained in the Tower till the Restoration of Charles the Second.
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I did fee a piece of a letter of your neighbour, my dear friend C. his gra
cious wife to her coufine Mrs. Kennedy, that did much refrem me. Such
fweet fubmiffion and eminent grace cannot hot be looked on by God and bleft.
I muft break of. I am juft what I wont to be to all men and to yow.
Your's,
R. B.
FOR JEREMIE WHITTAKER, MINISTER AT LONDON.Z
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
Underftanding by Mr. Wilkie, our agent, your great care to further him
in that his labour for that poor diftreffed people here, and withall your kind
remembrance of me, I could not but give yow heartie thanks for both. I
am glad to know yow are yet to the fore. I believe it goes the better with
many for your interceffions to your Mafter, which, with delight, I remem
ber wont to be very gracious and lingularlie melting. We here are
groaning to God under many heavie preffours. The beauty, flrength, and
ordor of our ecclefiaflick meetings are well near gone, I grant much by our
owne fault. The abolition of almoft all our Church liberties, and putting
the power of planting and difplanting of Miniflers in the hand of ftrangers, to
whom church difcipline does not belong, is heavy to us. The putting downe
of our Generall Affemblies and Kirk Commiflion, and giving a liberty to any
who will to profeffe many grievous errors, when we did expe6l, in perform
ance of a very folemne fworn Covenant, a full and perfect reformation, does
oft break our heart, and a flood of farder evills ready to break in on us does
much perplex us ; hot the confcience of our juft defervings, not at all from
men, bot the Lord, makes us put our mouth in the duft, and acknowledge
it for great mercy that we are not yet confumed, bot have yet any kind of
fubfiftence. I (hall at this tyme fay no more to yow, bot earneftlie defyre
yow would continue your prayers to the Lord Jefus for the defolate Church
of Scotland, that the Lord would reftore us, as we were that day when love
and companion drew us in a Covenant with yow. The Lord be with yow,
2 Mr. Jeremiah Whittaker was minister of Mary Magdalene Bermondsey, in South wark.
He died within four months from the date of this letter.
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and continue yow, and other gracious brethren there, till, by your prayers
at the throne of grace, yow have gotten that very thick cloud which now
overfhaddows us all difpelled.
Your Brother in the Lord to bleffe God
February 10th 1654. and pray for yow.
FOR MR. JAMES PERCUSSON.'
JAMES,
IT'S lyke yow and I fhall wear out of acquaintance. If your leafure
ferved, I wifli yow took a ftart for a night that we might have one hour's
clatter. If this cannot conveniently be, as yow left lad with me, anent the
Synod this is my purpofe : howfoever fundry of our Brether, and thefe alfo
there Eaft, thinks our being together fo long hes been for our hurt, yet I am
fo loath to break, that for this time it fhall be my earned endeavour to keep
together upon our ordinary protedation, if fo our Brether be content on the
nameing of the Moderator to adjourn till October. But if they will trouble
us by their committees, or mint to medle with any thing controverted, they
lay a neceffitie on us to litt by ourfelves. However, all thinks it neceflary
that we be fo frequent, miniders and elders, as we can. Yow will not faill to
be in tymeoufly on the Monday, for it muft be yow and Mr. Durhame who
mud deall betwixt us to keep us together, and bear witnefs on whofe fault
the breach comes. It were a pitie if your mind (hould be content to defert
us at fuch a tyme. I would think it very needfull that yow would, fome day
or other of the next week, call together Mafters William Cobrun, William
Fullarton, and Robert Wallace, to fpeak a little with yow, Mr. J. Bell,
M. P. C., M. A. N.,* to refolve how, with the lead dinn, yow may have in
whom yow can againft that time, and to advyfe what elfe is needfull. Shall
others for evill be fo active, and keep fo frequent meetings fan* and near, and
we ftill fit looking one upon another while all be loft. The Lord be with yow.
Your Brother.
Wednefday, March 8th [1654.]
3 In the MS. Baillie's amanuensis has written this name as Forgishall.
* That is, Mr. John Bell, Mr. Patrick Colvill, and Mr. Alexander Nisbet.
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FOR MR. WILLIAM SPANG. JULY 19TH 1654.
COUSIGNE,
I THINK yow marvell not at my long and unufuall filence : Warre being
flameing betwixt the lands of our abode, though neither yow nor I have any
interefl therein, yet the paffage being ftopt, or difficult, and all correfpond-
ing betwixt any in thefe and thir parts being lyable to mifconftruction, I
choifed rather to be filent than for that tyme to write any. But now, the
Peace being fubfcryved and ready to be proclaimed, I refume my old way
of letting yow know the true condition both of myfelf, and of our Col-
ledge, Church, 'and Countrey ; expecting the like from yow of your affaires
there, and of the world abroad, at your firft opportunitie.
I have had many a weary heart thefe tymes bygone, for many a crofle
accident both private and publict. But ftill the goodnefs of God upheld
me, and to this day hes protected and affifted me in every thing, and
given to me a comfortable fubiiftence, rather more as lefie than any of my
neighbours, bleffed be his holy name. After a long decaying and ficknefs
my moft gracious and vertuous companion wes removed June 7th 1653.
In the midft of a great and jufl griefe I had this mixture of comfort,
that, to the full fatiffaction of all, in her whole life, iicknefs and death,
the grace and wifdome of God did mine forth in her, till all wes crowned
with great applaufe, and regrate of all who knew her. Since, the Lord
hes guided my family and fix children weell as I could have expected or
wiftied. Befyde my ordinarie labours, I have gotten my Hebrew Praxis,
with much fafcherie, at lad, from the preffe ; alfo, I expected to have had my
Catechife, and Anfwer to Cotton and Tombes, printed before this : If in
fuch miferable tymes I can gett out thefe teftimonies of my faithfullnefs and
diligence in my calling, I will be glad. My little Chronologic growes in my
hand, and I hope it may doe good : it is my greateft tafke for the tyme.
The cafe of our Colledge is thus : When by great fludie and violence, Dr.
Strang wes made to dimitt his place, I fand, by Mr. James Durhame, that
the defigne then wes to putt in Mr. Patrick Gillefpie for our Principall ; but
moft of us efteeming that purpofe exceeding abfurd, we gave a call to Mr.
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Blair, not much contrare to his owne mind, as I thought ; but when that
did not fucceed, we gott Mr. Robert Ramfay fettled in it. Before his entry,
death removed that gracious and able man, much for our hurt. I wes, both
before and after, much dealt with by thefe whom it concerned, to accept that
place ; but I ever peremptorilie refuifed : I knew it belonged to Dr. Strang,
and in the manifold depofitions, and dimiflions of places, we have had thefe
years bygone, in Church, State, and Schooles, I had feen few thryve, but
exceeding many who fucceeded to fall in great hurts, if not fhame and
death : I loved no changes, efpecially to a place of civile action ; however,
God guided my mind to be refolute not to medle with it. So foon as the
Englifh come amongfl us, one of their firfl cares wes to plant our Univerfi-
ties with their owne. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie and our Regent Mr. John
Young, fell to be great among themfelffes and with the Englifh : both of them
aimed at the place ; at lad they agreed, fo that Mr. Patrick mould be Princi-
pall, and Mr. John Divinitie Profeflbr. Our Rector, CommifTar Lockhart,
having joyned affectionately with the Englifh, concurred in the defigne. I
wes much grieved with it, for I faw, befyde many other incongruities, it put
our Colledge prefently in the hands of the Remonftrators, and fuch as joyned
heartily enough with the Englifh. Mr. Zacharie Boyd, Vice-Chancellar, wes
foolifhly peremptor to eflablifh Mr. John Young ProfefTor : the Englifh were
ready to have done it ; but at Mr. John's defyre, permitted the Colledge to
do it themfelves : his father, Mr. George, our Dean, dealt long effectuallie
with his fonne, not to grieve me by accepting of that charge, but in vaine.
When it come to the election, for refpect to Mr. George, I wes content to
be abfent, with a declaration of my difTent and refolution, which yet I have
keeped, in not countenancing him in the exercife of that charge ; for to me
it feemed hard, that a young man, a Regent in Philofophie, how able foever,
ihould immediately turne Divinitie Profeffor without any call from the Church,
efpecially being profefTedly oppofite to our Church and Generall Affemblie.
At the election, the Rector moderating had no voice, but when the voters
were equallie divided ; his father and brother could have no voice, neither
in reafon nor ordinarie practife ; the other two Regents were againfl the thing
at that tyme, intending Mr. James Durhame, who indeed had been our
lawfullie elected ProfefTor, whofe entrie, for good reafons, we had flopped ;
but thereafter I moft gladly would have had him in, when, by Mr. John
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Young, for his owne defigne, I wes difabled to doe it : fo Mr. John's call
refted only on the voice of Mr. Zacharie ; yet he accepted, and thereafter,
to his father's and my great griefe, hes ever gone on the wrong way, with
all his ftrength.
After much whifpering with the Englifh, at lail ane order and command
wes prefented to us by our Rector, from the Englifh Judges, to accept of
Mr. Patrick, whom they, according to their power, had appointed our Princi-
pall. Mr. John Young, Mr. James Veitch, and Mr. Richard Robertfon,
were willing to doe what wes defyred ; but the moft part of the Facultie,
Mr. George Young, Dean, Mr. Zacharie Boyd, Vice-Chancellar, I, and Mr.
Patrick Young, diflented and protefled. The Rector, in this inequalitie,
profefled he had no voice, and acknowledged that the Facultie had refufed to
choice Mr. Patrick ; yet, as a private man, he would goe with the three dif-
fenters, and encourage Mr. Patrick to obey the Englifh order : thereafter, the
Englifh fent us a command to write our reafons why we refufed. This, the
Dean of Facultie, Vice-Chancellar, and I, did feverallie under our hands.
Notwithflanding, Mr. Patrick accepted the charge, and fince hes pofTefTed it ;
albeit, in this the fecond year, he hes been pleafed to make not fo much as
one leflbn. I doe not abflain from the mofl of Colledge meetings, with my
proteflations, oft at the beginning repeated, of my not acknowledging by my
prefence either of the two for Principall or. Profeflbr ; and when we fubfcryve
common writes, I ufually adde to my name P. S. S. Proteftationibus Salvis.
In other things, we keep prettie faire ; but I fear we cannot long agree. At
Mr. Patrick's firft entrie, the eldefl Regent, Mr. Richard Robertfon, (whom
violently they had thrufl in over all our priviledges, by a committee of their
Vifitation,) had putt in his Dictats exceeding many open errors, herefies, and
blafphemies. I mifkent the matter long, only I defyred Mr. Patrick, who had
become fo intimate with him, as after that fcandale to boord him at his owne
table, and Mr. John Young who alfo boorded there, to fee to it. After the
fcandale grew very flagrant, and no courfe at all wes like to be taken with it,
at lafl, I called for the Notes, and drew out that paper I heirwith fend to
yow, and communicate it to the Facultie, in the young man's own prefence.
They appointed him with his owiie hand to delete out of his Didates, fundrie
of the wicked errors. They all profefled they miflyked the tenets alfmuch
as I, yet they conceaved the young man to be holy, and would not difgrace
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him with any farder cenfure. I defyred Mr. Patrick to advyfe this matter
with his friends, and told him plainly, if he keeped in the Colledge one who
had taught fo blafphemous herefies, and who yet was not fenfible, for any
purpofe, of his fmne, I would let the world know it for my owne exoneration,
and would charge this connivance on him, and the whole fide on which he wes.
Finding me that clear, I think Warriftone and Mr. James Guthrie advyfed
him not to be heard with me in this ; fo, not before the very end of the year,
he wes removed, but with no cenfure at all ; only on a narrative of weaknefs
of bodie, he dimitted his place, and contrare to my mind, his dimiflion wes
accepted ; yea, a penfion of twelve fcore merks during his life wes appoint
ed to him. It grieved me to fee no zeale at all againft the mod grievous
errors in the mod of my neighbours ; yea, though 1 communicate that paper
to Mr. James Durhame, I fand him nothing commoved thereat.
Our next bout wes for the planting of the vaiking places. The year be
fore, Mr. John Young, to make way for his call, laid down his Regent's place
in the midft of a terme, with profeflion not to be willing for any requeft to
miedle more with it. According to our order, a program wes affixt in all the
four Univerfities, to invite at a day all who pleafed to compear. Two of our
own, Mr. Hew Smith and Mr. John Glen, did appear, very good youths
and fchollars both : while we are goeing to prefcryve them their tryell, ane
order from the Engliih is delyvered to us, by our Rector, difcharging us to
admitt any to tryall for any place, without their appointment. Some nights
before, Mr. John Young had come to me to enquire, If I could be content
to admitt to the vacant place Mr. Sandilands, the Rector's brother, without
competition ? I told him I could not in confcience, for befide that I conceav-
ed the young man unfitt, by our old priviledges, lately injoyned very flrictlie
by our Vifitors, we were obliedged to a competition, for which we had then
affixt a program. Mr. John, finding me refolute, without dinne, at no man's
defyre, continued in his Regent's place to the end of that year, though he
had entered in the Divinitie profeflion ; which he let lye for the exercife of it,
but not for its ftipend. However, when the vacant places of Mr. John
Young and Mr. Richard Robertfon came to be fupplied the nixt year, Mr.
Patrick Gillefpie defires to call to the firft Mr. R. Mcquard [McWard], with
out any competition : for this we have a new conteft. I told him of our lawes
renewed in our laft Vifitation, wherein his owne hand wes chieff; alfo that
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two of our owne, invited by our Programme, wes waiting for their tryell ;
that the young man he named I knew to be nothing fitter than any of the
two ; and that the old Colledge of St. Andrewes, wherein he wes Regent of
Humanitie, had refuifed, that fame year, to admitt him to a vaiking place
without competition : Notwithftanding, it wes carried in the Facultie, to call
him without competition or any tryell. Our Facultie was now fully con-
forme ; the Vice-Chancellar was dead ; Mr. George Young wes changed,
and his fonne, the Profeflbr, wes made Dean of Facultie in his father's place,
contrare, as I conceaved, to his promife not to accept of that place ;
the Redlor, in all they defyred, wes ever for them, for their common
matters fake the Englifh ; Mr. James Veitch wes put in by them againil
order, and wes made ever for them ; Mr. Patrick Young wes winne, by his
brother Mr. John, to be quyet ; AiTeflbrs were declaired, by their laft Vifita-
tion, to have no decifive voice : Soe I wes left alone ; and then indeed, fpeak-
ing Iharplie for the evident overthrow of our priviledges, when my offer wes
refuifed that I would be filent if Mr. Robert Blair, Mr. Samuel Ruther-
foord, and Mr. James Wood, who were the young man's beft friends, would
declare they conceived him to be one of that qualification for whom our law
of competition mould be broken, Mr. Patrick Gillefpie did publicllie boaft
that he would take a courfe with me. With indignation I bade him doe his
worft quicklie. The firft night he come among us, he carried the change of
our factor, Mr. John Herbertfone, to Mr. John Spreule, his confident on the
Englifh intereft ; fo he gripped our purfe, that no man mould gett any
ftipend hot as he thought expedient ; and this ever fince I have found. With
all thefe injuries, I fatt ftill expecting worfe. At the Regent's entrie, I ab-
fented myfelf ; the young man incontinent fell fick, as before he had been
iicklie : he is like not long to live5 ; fo, to all our fenfe, it had been his good
never to have come hither. There was a competition for the other place,
5 Mr. Robert M'Ward, however, survived Baillie many years. He was admitted a Regent
in the College 4th August 1653, and three years later became one of the Ministers in Glasgow,
as noticed in Baillie's letter to Spang, 1st September 1656. He was ejected at the Restora
tion ; and was, moreover, tried for alleged sedition in one of his sermons, but his expected
sentence of execution was changed to perpetual banishment. He retired to Holland, from
whence by his writings he greatly supported the fainting hearts of his suffering brethren in
Scotland during " their fiery trials/' in the time of persecution. He died in exile in Decem
ber 1681.— (Steven's History of the Scottish in Rotterdam, pp. 25, &c. 336.)
VOL. III. 2 H
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becaufe Mr. Patrick knew of none to thruft in, only he wrote to Aberdeen,
where almofl all in both Colledges, from Remonftrators, had avowedlie gone
over to Independencie and Separation ; from them he fetcht a young man,
Mr. Andrew Burnet. In all the tryalls, to the fenfe of almoft all, Mr. John
Glen clearlie warrit him ; yet there wes no remeid, Mr. Burnet behooved
to have the place. The young man, Mr. John Glen, had faid among his
commerads, that he fear'd his favour was fo little as he mould not carrie the
place : of this mote fuch a mountain was made, that Mr. Patrick began a
procefs againft him, to declare him uncapable to compete. With difficultie
he was admitted to a hearing. In the time of our judging, I fand many
fenfible of ane evident partialitie : I departed in filence ; for this Mr.
Patrick cryed after me, He would teach me better manners. At this I
Imiled, and went away. My chief exception was, that the young man,
though he had the teftimonie of all the apoftates in the Colledge of Aber
deen, yet Mr. Andrew Cant's, though written to, was not gotten, and Mr.
Patrick, with paffion, had refufed to put him to fubfcryve the Covenant, when
I In his ear defyred it. At the beginning of the year he took all the keys
of the little chambers from my fchollars, whereof they had long, by my allow
ance, been in poffefiion, and gave them to whom he liked better. Dr. Strang
had beftowed fix hundred merks on the building, for which the Facultie
mod unanimouflie had affigned him a chamber for his ufe during his life
time, in ane a6l fubfcryved with all our hands. Mr. Patrick will have him
out of it ; by reiterate order from the Englifh, he had made him flitt from his
houfe ; and when he was unwilling to give him the key of his chamber in
the Colledge, till he had been heard in a Facultie to fpeak for his right, with
out more adoe, he caufes break up the doore, and put on a new lock, and
fetts Mr. John Young in the chamber, which we thought he would not have
accepted. And to (hew more of his good- will to his predeceffor, he quarrells
his compts for his flipend, and queftions two yeares as unjuftly intromitted
with, though allowed and fubfcryved by all the auditors of the compts for
more than twenty years, without queftion. Alfo, of my receipts he chal
lenges fix hundred pounds, which I offered to be determined by the Colledge
own lawyers, or other arbitrators ; but without law there is no remeid ; and
to law I told him, I will not goe, though I mould lofe the foume. This is
but a little part of our vexation.
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Lately Dr. Strang had drawne up ane act, that the ftudents of Divinitie
fhould fubfcryve their due obedience and attendance of the leflbns of the
Principall and Profeffors, under the paine of a mulct. This by many of the
chief fchollars was never fubfcryved, and never preffed on any, and laid
afide a little after the firfl making, and out of mind and forgot. But be
hold, at the beginning of this year, Mr. Patrick will have all the Divinitie
ftudents to fubfcryve this, or elfe put them out of the Colledge. Some of
them, efpeciallie your nephew and Mr. Hew Blair's fonne, being in confidence
bound up, declyned modeftlie that fubfcription, thinking in their minds (as
many more did) that Mr. Patrick was not lawfull Principall, nor Mr. John
Young lawfull Profeflbr ; but withall gave him no offence : for this no fub-
fcry veing he put them publictlie out of the hall from the exercife. I did not
know of this till Mr. Patrick wrote a very imperious letter to me, out of
Edinburgh, not to admitt thefe two young men to any of my leflbns. This
infolence grieved me, yet I neglected it ; only told him at meeting that I
could concurre in no fuch violence. While we are vexed daylie with new
unexpected motions, there is affixed diverfe tymes on the Colledge gate, and
fcattered in the Colledge Clofe, and put in the mouth of all the fchollars, a
number of moil bafe and fcandalous Latine verfes, abufeing Mr. Patrick and
Mr. John Young very vylelie, and fcoffing at all the Regents. Before I
had heard of it, they had put a number of boys to a tryall upon it, being un
able to find the author. They fcourged fundrie publictlie and privatelie,
and made fuch affrightment among the fchollars that fundrie got away :
fome of the beft qualitie would no more returne. This remedie did no
good, for every other day new papers, of many bafe villanies, were fpread
and fent over all the countrie. This put Mr. Patrick in a high humor to
goe for Edinburgh, with ane Englifh troup, excommunicate Govan, in his
armes, ryding before his wife through the ftreets openlie. While he is there
ane order came to him fra the Protector, and other two to Mr. John Living-
done and Mr. John Menzies, to come to London againft the 10th of Aprile,
to give their advyce in matters of high concernment. This has frayed us
all, fearing leaft the Protector purpofe to put our Church in a new mule,
and beginne upon us a fore perfecution, which is like not foon to end. I
parted fair with Mr. Patrick, for my own part, which I fcarce expected : for
our Rector, falling in a foule fornication, behooved to be changed, and the
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defigne being to have none of the Miniflers or others, convenient on the lift,
but only the laird of Pollock and goodman of Glanderflone, and the Cove
nant being to be laid afide at that election, when ufually it wont very folemn-
ly to be taken, I would not countenance the action ; alfo our Factor, Mr. John
Spreule, being now hi the charge of clerk to the Lords of Seffion, and being
to make his accompts, I could not fubfcryve without my prejudice ; and the
Colledge giving fundrie inftructions to be agented by Mr. Patrick at London,
with the Protector, I would fubfcryve none of them. I expected for all this
a ftorme, yet God guided me fo that we parted calmlie, for the which I
was glad, and fince his departure have lived in peace.
As for our Church affaires, thus they fland : The Parliament of England
had given to the Englifli Judges and Sequeftrators a very ample commifiion
to put out and in minifters as they faw caufe, to plant and difplant our Uni-
verfities. According to this power, they put Mr. John Row in Aberdeen,
Mr. Robert Leighton in Edinburgh, Mr. Patrick Gillefpie in Glafgow, and
Mr. Sainuell Colvile they offered to the Old Colledge of St. Andrews ; this
lad is yet holden off, but the other three acts as Principalls. All our Col-
ledges are quicklie like to be undone. Our Churches are in great confufion :
no intrant getts any flipend till he have petitioned and fubfcryved fome
acknowledgment to the Engliih. When a very few of the Remonftrators
or Independent partie will call a man, he gets a kirk and the ftipend ; but
whom the Prelbyterie, and well near the whole congregation, calls and ad-
mitts, he muft preach in the fields, or in a barne, without ftipend. So a fec-
tarie is planted in Kilbryde, ane other in Leinzie, and this guyfe will grow
ryfe to the wrack of many a foull. We thought at the Generall Aflemblie to
have gotten fome courfe for this ; but Colonell Lilburne, the commander-in-
chiefe, gave order to fojors to break our Afiemblie before it wes conftitute,
to the exceeding great grief of all, except the Remonftrators, who infulted
upon it ; the Englifti violence haveing tryfted with their proteftation againft it.
Since that tyme we have had no meeting for the whole Church, not fo much
as for counfell, though the Remonftrants have mett oft, and are like to fett
up a Commiflion and AfTemblie of their owne, for very ill purpofe. They
are moft bitter againft thofe who adhere to their Covenant in the matter of
the King and Aftemblies : they are alfe bent as ever to purge the Church :
to punifh men truely deferveing cenfure, we are alfe willing as they ; but
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their purgeing is for common a very injurious oppreffion. Sundry of them
falls openly to the Englifh errors, both of Church and State, and many more
are near to that evill ; yet my Lord Warriftone, Mr. James Guthrie, and
others, dill profefs their great averfion to the Englim way : however, their
great averfation of the King, and of the late Affemblies, and their zeal to
make up the Kirk and armie, and places of truft, only of the godly partie,
(that is their own confidents,) make them dear and precious men to the
Englim, doe or fay what they will, and their oppofites hot rafkallie Malig-
nants. This makes them exceeding bold, knowing of their back ; and
were it not for a few more moderate men among them, they, before this,
would have plaid ftrange pranks: however, they are goeing on prettie
faft ; their wracking of the congregation of Leinzie, and dividing of the
Prelbyterie of Glafgow ; their doeing the like in the congregation and Pref-
byterie of Lithgow, yow heard long agoe ; alfo what they have done in
Bathgate, and fundry parts of the fouth. I will only give fome accompt
of their laft dealings.
From their meeting in Edinburgh, they were inftructed to have monethly
fafts and communions as they could have them : at their communions they
excluded more than the halfe of thofe who were ordinarlie admitted : fex or
feven minifters, leaveing their own congregations defolate, were about the
action ; numbers of flrangers flocked to thefe meetings ; at their fafts, four
or five minifters of their belt preachers in the bounds, exercifed from morning
to even. The great defigne of all this wes evidently but to increafe their
partie ; whereof yet in moft places they miffed. Alwayes the word went, that
they purpofed to put up committees for purging and planting every where
as they thought fitt. I wes fo charitable as not to fufpe6l them of any fuch
purpofe, when the land wes full of confufion and danger ; yet I fand myfelf
difappointed ; for at our fynod, the Moderator's fermon ran on the ne-
ceflitie of taking up the too-long neglected work of purging. The man's
vehemencie in this, and in his prayer, a ftrange kind of fighing, the like
whereof I had never heard, as a pythonifing out of the bellie of a fecond
perfon, made me amazed. To prevent this foolifh and cruell enterprize, we
prefled, in the entrie of the Synod, that in thefe tymes of confufion we might
be affured of peace till the nixt Synod, as we had been in the three former
Synods. We intimate our great willingnefs to caft out of the miniftrie all
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whom we conceaved either unfitt for weaknefs, or fcandalous ; but a Synod
fo divided in judgement as we were, we conceaved very unfitt for any fuch
work. When we found our defyre flatly refufed, and perceaved a clear
defigne to fett up prefently their tyrannous committees, we, as we had re-
folved before hand, and were advyfed by the miniftrie of Edinburgh, and
others of our mind, required them, that our Synod might be rightly confti-
tute, That minifters cenfured by the Generall Aflemblie, and elders notori-
oufly oppofite to the lad three Generall Aflemblies, might have no voyce.
When this wes flatly refuifed, we fhew we were neceflitate to fitt by our
felves, and leave them in their feparation from the Generall AfTemblie and
Kirk of Scotland. When, by all we could fay, nothing could be obtained, all
of us who adhered to the Generall Aflemblie went to the Blackfriers, and
there keeped the Synod, leaving our Proteflation with them (C.) Some
brethren travelled all the next day betwixt us for a union ; we offered it glad
ly, on condition, that they would be content for this tyme of the land's trouble
and danger, to leave all medling with things controverted, or elfe to confti-
tute the Synod according to the A61 of the Generall Aflemblie. When neither
could be obtained, (as yow may fee in the paper of mediation (D.), we did
conftitute ourfelves in a Synod by ane a6l ; whereof yow have the tennor fub-
joyned (E.) ; and when we had appointed a fafl, the caufes whereof I likewife
fubjoyne (F.), we clofed to meet at Irvine at the nixt dyet. To our abfent
brethren we fent the letter following (G.), and ane information of our pro
ceedings to the neighbouring Synods of Lothian, Galloway, Argyle ; alfo
Fyffe, Perth, and the Merfe.
The Remonftrators choifed Mr. William Guthrie for their Moderator, and
one James Porter, a devote fervant of their partie for clerk ; named a Com
mittee of their moft forward men to goe immediately to Lanark, to purge
and plant as they found caufe ; fent two of their gentlemen, Sir George
Maxwell and Walkinfchaw, with the help of their good friends Bogs and
Commiflar Lockhart ; and when they prevailed not, two of their minifters, Mr.
William Somervaill and Mr. William Jack, [went] to the Governor of Glaf-
gow, Colonell Cooper, for a troup of horfe to guard them at Lanark and Dow-
glafs.6 Some of them had to their power, fomented a very injurious fcandall
6 There is inserted in the MS. this marginal note, in Baillie's own hand .- " Mr. Somervail
and Mr. Jak cleirit themselfes to me of this fait."
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on Mr. R. Hoome, whom we had made minifter at Crauford-Johne contrare
to their mind : their committee laboured to their power to try that their owne
invention ; but failed therein. There is an old man, Mr. John Veitch, minifter
of Roberton, they fent minifters, two or three of their number to hear him
preach ; on their report, they pronounced a fentence of depofition on him as
unfufficient. But their chief work was at Dowglafs. The noblemen, gen
tlemen, whole heritors and people, and feffion, unanimoufly had called Mr.
Archibald Inglilh, a verie good and able youth, to his father's place. They
ftirred up fome of the elders, who fubfcryved a call to the young man, to de-
fyre his tryells might be before the United Prelbyterie, and not before our
part of it, from which the Remonftrators had feparate. This motion they fo
fomented, that thefe few elders, with a very few of the people, were moved
by them, contrare to all the congregation, to give a call to a filly young man,
a nicer ftranger, from Fife, one Mr. Francis Kidd, who had never been heard
nor feen in the bounds. This man they bring to the kirk on the Sunday :
when the people refuifed to let him or them enter, he preached on a bray-
lide to fome ftrangers and a few of the people of Dowglafs, and even thefe
runne away from hearing of him, except a very few. Preaching ended,
they fent one to read a edict at the church-door, who refuifed to give a
copie of what he read : without more adoe, on Monday morning, they paft all
his tryells in one houre, and came to the church of Dowglafs in the after-
noone to give him impofition of hands. The body of the people and heritors
hindered their coming into the church and church-yard ; whereupon they
fent once and againe for their Englifti guard. By all their importunitie
they could gett none of the troupe to countenance them, except twelve, with
the Lieutenant : by the power of their fword, as wes avowed on all hands,
on a bray-fide, without preaching, they admitted him minifter of Dowglafs :
ane abominable example, generally much abhorred, which fhews what we
may expect from that partie. Our Synod appointed fome to joyne with the
true Prefbyterie of Lanark ; who mett the week thereafter ; tryed with all ac-
curacie poflible what could be found in the fcandale of Mr. Robert Hoome ;
fand nothing but malice of fome parties, fomented by minifters ; with the
unanimous confent of the people of Roberton, ftrengthened the minifter, and
appointed a helper to be fettled there in ane orderly way ; admitted to the
Church of Dowglafs Mr. Archibald Inglifh, after all tryells duely performed,
248 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1654.
with the bleflings and tears of the congregation. Readily they will procure
ane order from the Englifh, that the flipend and church fhall goe to Mr.
Kidd, and his twelve or fixteen followers, and Mr. Archibald Inglifh (hall
be tollerated, with much adoe, to preach to the whole congregation, Mar-
quefs of Dowglafs, Earle of Angus, whole heritors and people, in the
fields, or a barne, without a fexpence of flipend.
In this glafs fee our condition. It is fo in fundrie congregations allreadie,
and like to be foe in many more ; not fo much through the violence of the
Englifh, as the unreafonable headinefs of the Remonflrators, which for the tyme
is remedilefs ; and we, for fear of worfe from their very evill humour, give
way to permitt them to plant diverfe churches as they like befl. This formed
fchifme is very bitter to us, but remedilefs, except on intolerable conditions,
which no wyfe orthodoxe divine will advyfe us to accept : We mufl imbrace
without contradiction, and let grow, the principles of the Remonftrants, which
all reformed divines, and all ftates in the whole world abhorres ; we mufl
permitt a few headie men to wafle our Church with our confent or conni
vance ; we mufl let them frame our people to the Sectarian modell ; a few
more forward ones joyned among themfelffes by privie meetings to be the
godly partie, and the congregation, the reft, to be the rafcallie malignant
multitude : So that the bodie of our people are to be cafl out of all churches ;
and the few who are countenanced, are fitted, as fundry of them already hes
done, to imbrace the errors of the tyme for their deflruc~lion. Againfl thefe
abominations we flrive fo much, and fo wyfely, as we can. Mr. Robert Dow
glafs, Mr. David Dickfon, and others, hes yet gotten Edinburgh right : The
faction which Mr. Robert Traill and Mr. John Stirling have there is uncon-
fiderable. Mr. Robert Blair and Mr. James Wood keep St. Andrewes and
Fyfe prettie right : Mr. Rutherfoord, to the uttermofl of his power, advances
the other partie. Mr. John Robertfon and Mr. William Rate gets Angus
and Dundee right ; but the naturally headie men of Aberdeen are come up
to the full defigne too foone ; yet the bodie of the people and country are
right. In this Mr. James Guthrie in Stirling comes but fmall fpeed ; albeit
his confident Sir William Bruce of Stanhoufe be made the Englifh fherriff.
In Lithgowfhire they have ufed great violence, imprifoned their chiefe
oppofite Mr. Jo. Vaugh, forced a fillie man on the miniftrie of Lithgow,
and ane other on Bathgate, contrare to all the Synod of Lothian could
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doe ; yet the bodie of the people is flat there againfl them. Their greateft
prevalence is with us in Glafgow, which comes much more by Mr.
James Durhame's neutralise profefied, bot reall joyning with the moft of
the others defignes, and Mr. John Carflares's zeall, than any thing that Mr.
Patrick Gillefpie hes done, or could doe, by himfelff. This is the pitifull
condition of our Church which is but goeing on from evill to worfe till the
Lord remeed it.
As for our State, this is its cafe : Our Nobilitie, weell near all are wracked ;
Dukes Hamilton, the one execute, the other flaine ; their flate forfault ; one
part of it gifted to Englifh fojours ; the reft will not pay the debt ; little left to
the heretrix ; almoft the whole name undone with debt : — Huntlie execute ;
his fonnes all dead bot the youngeft ; there is more debt on the Houfe nor the
land can pay : — Lennox is living, as a man buried, in his houfe of Cobhame :
Dowglafs and his fonne Angus are quyet men, of no refpect : — Argyle almoft
drowned with debt, in friendfhip with the Englifh, but in hatred with the
countrey : he courts the Remonftrators, who were and are averfe from him ; —
Chancellar Loudoun lives like ane outlaw about Athole, his lands compryfed
for debt, under a generall very great difgrace : — Marfchell, Rothes, Eglinton
and his three fonnes, Craufurd, Lauderdaill, and others, prifoners in England ;
and their lands all either fequeftrate or forfault, and gifted to Englifh fojours : —
Balmerinoch fuddenly dead, and his fonne, for public! debt, compryfeings, and
captions, keeps not the callie : — Warrifton, haveing refounded much of what
he got for places, lives privilie, in a hard enough condition, much hated by
the moft, and neglected by all, except the Remonftrants, to whom he is guide.
Our Criminall Judicatories are all in the hands of the Englifh ; our Civile
Courts in their hands alfo ; only fome of the Remonftrators are adjoyned
with them : In the Seffion7 are Craighall, (now dead,) and his brother Hope-
toun, Mr. A. Perfon, Southhall, Colonell Lockhart, and Swinton : The only
clerks to the Seffion are Mr. John Spreule and William Downie. The Com-
miffariat and Sherriffs Courts are all in the hands of Englifh fojours, with the
adjunction, in fome places, of fome few Remonftrants. Strong garifones in
Leith, Edinburgh towne and caftell, Glafgow, Ayr, Dumbartan, Stirling,
7 The Judges here named were Sir John Hope of Craighall, who died 24th April 1654, his
brother Sir James Hope of Hopetoun, Alexander Pearson of Southhall, Colonell afterwards
Sir William Lockhart, and John Swiuton of Swinton.
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Lithgow, Perth, Dundee, Bruntifland, Dunnotter, Aberdeen, Innernefs,
Inneraray, Dunftaffnage, etc.
Of a long tyme no man in the whole Ifle did mute : all were lulled up in a
lethargick fear and defpaire. Only the other year, Glencairne and Balcarras,
underftanding of ane order to apprehend them as correfponding with the
King, retired to the hills of Athole. Kenmure haveing efcaped from Eng
land, when his houfe wes burnt and his rents feafed upon, got to the Lennox
with a few horfe : Lome, being but coarfelie ufed by his father, joyned with
Kenmure. To thefe fundrie did aflbciat, Glengarie, Athole, Seaforth, not
fo much to doe any thing againfl the Englifh, as to make fome noyfe of a
partie, to encourage the King's friends abroad to fend him fupplies of men,
armes, and money. At once a great animofitie did ryfe in every fhyre of
the land ; very many young gentlemen made bold with all the ferviceable
horfe they could find about them ; and notwithstanding of all the diligence
the Englifh could ufe to prevent, great numbers came fafe to the hills. The
warre with Holland, and rumor of great help from over-feas, did increafe
dayly both the number and courage of this partie.
But behold inward divifion doth hazard all at the very beginning. The
irreconcileable difcords of Argyle and Hamilton had undone the Ifle, and
almoft both the families. Glencairne, Hamilton's coufigne, did much mif-
trufl and flight Lome. Ralftone, and the Remonftrant gentlemen of Kin-
tyre, feemed readie to arme for the Englifh, againfl the King's partie.
Lome and Kenmure, with the men they had raifed, went to Kintyre to fup-
preffe thefe. They, on hope of the Englifli afliftance from Aire, fortified the
caftle of Lochheid ; but while neither Argyle nor the Englifli appear in their
defence, they rander the houfe to Lome's difcretion. Kenmure thinking the
befiedged better ufed by Lome than they deferved, fell in a mifcontent, and
went frome Lome to Glencairne with many complaints. Balcarras alfo un
willing to have Glencairne above him, and conceaveing that it wes befl for
the advanceing of the King's affaires, that till the King himfelff, or one of
authoritie from him, fhould come, the partie fhould be ruled by a committee,
without any fupreame officer, and that all admitted to counfells and com
mand in the armie fhould declare for the Solemne League and Covenant.
For thefe ends he dealt with Lome, Seaforth, and Athole, till Glencairne
produced a commiflion under the King's hand to be Generall, till himfelff
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or fome from him, mould come to take the command. This unexpect
ed commiffion put all to a fubmiffive filence, but increafed heart-burnings.
Lome, profeffing all firmnefs to the King and caufe, wes not willing to take
orders from Glencairne, till he did know more particularlie the King's plea-
fure. For this end, he, Balcarras, and others, wrote to the King their dif-
content with Glencairne's command. Thefe letters were intercepted and
brought to Glencairne ; whereupon he gave order to Glengarie to apprehend
Lome, to anfwer for his fedition. Lome hardlie enough efcaped Glengarie's
perfute ; Balcarras retired ; and, a little after, with his Lady, went difguifed
through England to the King. Notwithstanding of all thefe pitiefull and
fhamefull debates, Glencairne's partie ftill increafed, and his conduct be
came confiderable : the whole Highlands, Ifles, and much of the North, and
numbers from the Lowlands, wes come unto him ; fo it wes thought, at
Midletone's coming, he had here and there eight or nine thoufand foot, and
two or three thoufand horfe, of very flout and refolute men as we ever had
on the fields, the mod of them old fojours. But at Midletone's comeing,
when neither the King, nor his brother, nor any foraigne force, did appear,
the hearts of many began to doubt ; and when, after his coming, fome
months, notwithstanding of all the reiterat promifes, no foraigne affiftance
at all did come ; but on the contrare, the Holland peace was proclaimed ; the
treaty of the Protector with Swane [Sweden] went on ; the French ambaffador
at London wes folemnly receaved, as the Spanifh and Portugale had been ;
all humane hope began much to faill, efpeciallie after Monck's coming
downe as Generall, the Proclamation of the Protector, the Act of Union,
and the Ordinance of Grace, which forfaulted and deeply fyned fo many,
and fubjected the whole priviledges of the Nation to the Protector and his
Council's pleafure, with the abolition of Royaltie, the whole branches of
the Family- Roy all, and all Scots Parliaments and Conventions of Eflates;
the takeing of Kinnoule, Lieutenant-Colonells Herriot, Wifhart, Forfyth,
and fundry more of our Scotfmen unhappily : All thefe things were fo hard
prefages, that the moft gave all the King's affaires for gone ; and many did
think that the King, whether through perfonall weaknefs, or the treacherie
of the few counfellors about him, or the crofs afpect of all Europe towards
him, had fo far difappointed the expectation of his friends, that while he
lived he was not like to get fuch a partie for his fervice in Scotland.
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So for the time the cafe of our Land is mod fad : Monck, by fea and land,
is to befett Glencairne and his partie, and with much feveritie to crufh them,
and for their fakes to lye more heavily on the whole fubdued countrey, be
ginning with the bed of the minifters ; who, after mutuall advyce, find them-
felves in confcience neceffitate to keep the King ftill in their public!; prayers.
We have been very carefull to give the Englifli no other offence at all ; for
in all this Northland ryfeing, to my bed knowledge, there is no minifter in
Scotland who has had the leifl hand or any medling. However, for this
our great treafon of naming the King in our public! prayers, (as we con
ceive our duety, Covenant, and Directorie for worfliip do require, as ye will
fee in the papers herewith fent unto yow,) (H.), we are like to fuffer heavie
things. For all this, our eyes are towards the Lord : we expect protection
from him, and if fo he think meet, we are willing to feall our teftimonie, in
faith and humble modeftie, with all the fufferings which the injuftice of men
may be permitted of our Heavenlie Father to impofe upon us.
Being called the other week to confer with the Brethren of Edinburgh, I
was comforted to find all that mett, fully in my fenfe both about prayer for
the King, and affaires of our divided Synod, divided Prefbyterie, troubled
Colledge, and all elfe we fpoke of. But it was a fad fight to fee the general 1
affliction at the Proclamation of the Protector, of the Act of Union, the Act
of Forfaultrie and deep fyning of fo many, the preparation of Monck by fea
and land prefentlie to fwallow up the Northern partie, deftitute of all hope
of the oft-promifed foraigne fupplies, as common fame furmifed. As our
miferies, (without a kingdome wholly, without any judicatories to count off
of our owne, without a church well near,) are great ; fo we expect they
(hall increafe, and the next heavie dint (hall fall on the chief of the miniftrie.
At once it will not be fafe to have any audible complaints of thefe things,
either to God or man.
I (hall clofe at this time, with a defire of your advyce, with the firfl occa-
(ion, in a particular of my familie. My fecond fonne, Henry, a prettie boy
of feventeen years, among the beft fchollars of his claffe, very diligent and
carefull of all duetie, and welbeloved of all as a gracious and vertuous
youth, befyde my expectation, and contrare to my defyre, tells me, that
of a long time he has been inclyned, and now is refolved, to be a merchant.
All I, or other friends, can fay, does not divert him from this refolution,
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which, he fayes, after frequent and earned prayer, grows in him. This is
his Batcheller year ; with difficultie I can move him to ftay it out ; he could
be content to ferve as a prentice. I conceive it his bed, if his refolution
continue, to fend him over in the hinder-end of harvefl to yow, to fpend the
winter, and what time more yow think fitt, to learn Dutch and French, to
keep a merchant-book, or what elfe yow made my brother's fonne learn, and
then to give him a little flock to ware, at the direction, and with the over-
light, of fome friends. Yow who underftand thefe things, give me your full
and free advyce in this whole matter. I had purpofed him, as alfo my eldefl
fonne, for the miniftrie ; and I thought he had alfe faire beginnings as any of
his age, towards that holy calling. But his peremptor refolution makes me,
with grief, change that my deligne for him.
A POSTSCRIPT. JULY 20TH 1654.
WHILE I waited long for a bearer, I add further : Our Triumviri, Mafters
Leviftone, Gillefpie, and Menzies, ftayed long at London without much
accefs to the Protector : He thought it good to write for Meffrs. Dowglafs,
Blair, and Guthrie. Mr. Blair excufed his health ; Mr. Guthrie, by a fair
letter, declared his peremptorinefs not to goe ; Mr. Dowglafs, by Monk's
friendlie letter, gott himfelf alfo excufed. On their not comeing, Mr. Levi
ftone gott leave to returne, and is at home ; Mr. Gpllefpie] and M[enzies]
are expected. The buffinefs of the plott gave not the Protector much lea-
fure for auditing of them. Only we fear that our Church fhall be caft under
fuch a Committee as now guides all ecclefiafticall affaires in England, abfo-
lutelie as the Protector thinks fitt, the mod whereof are Anabaptifts and
Independents, and gentlemen of no ecclefiafticall relation. We thank God
that perfecution on the miniftrie is not yet begun, except what the Remon-
ftrators drawes from the Englifh on fome few. Mr. John Vaugh and Mr.
Robert Knox were long prifoners for naming the King in their prayers ; yet
now they are at liberty, and at their charges, to our great joy.
Through Mr. Gillefpie's abfence, our Colledge has been long at peace,
though thefe diverfe moneths all difcipline has been loofe among us ; the
boys, after the fray among them for the fcandalous verfes, never weell
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fettleing ; no examination at the end of the year, no folemne laureation, nor
much attendance on clafles. I think Mr. P. G., if he were prefent, would
fee better order. In my preface to my Praxis, I noted the fcurvy dictates of
fome Regents, which all the Universities acknowledged, and were in a fair
way to have helped. For this Mr. James Veitch, our eldeft regent, did
dyte to his fchollers, in the midft of his Notes, a pitifull invective againft
me, (I) ; a fowller injurie than I ever heard was done to any honed man
for fuch a caufe. The Lord armed my mind with Chriftian patience fo that
I totallie miikent it ; only I wrote the inclofed paper and fent it to himfelf,
whereupon he fcraped out of his fchollers bookes, after fome dayes, that
evill lefibn, and no more dinne was here of that matter.
My next vexation was with our Anti- Synod : after their pranckes in
Lanark, they mett fynodicallie very frequent at Glafgow, fell on a com
mittee for purging all the Prefbyteries ; I alone went up to them, intreated
them with many fair words to delay at lead any fuch work, and for that end
gave them in a large paper, which a very gracious and wife brother, fomewhat
a mid-man betwixt us, had drawn for that end, (K.)8 ; which I fend alfo to
yow, that from it yow may more fullie learne our prefent temper. All this
labor produced little ; for notwithftanding they proceeded in their work, and
appointed their purging and planting committees ; hot with this provifo, that
they mould have, at their next meeting, a conference with any I pleafed of
my mind before they proceeded. Againft their day I had our part of
the Synod mett, and full information of the brethren of Edinburgh and
others for our proceeding. We prefentlie put up a purging and planting
committee alfe well as they, and of thefe we appointed a number to conferr
with them. With much adoe we gott them to flay till the firft of Augufl,
upon a new conference : againft that day Mr. James Fergufone drew up a
paper of his Overtures for our reunion (L.), and I drew up another (M.) :
yow have both here. What the iffue mall be yow may hear afterward ; only
thefe things lye heavier on my heart nor on any man's elfe I know, for ufuallie
at the tyme of thefe comfortlefs janglings, I am fick and diftempered with
grieff and difcontent, though every one of them gives me more refpe6l
than to any other ; yet for the remedilefs breach I am heavilie oft troubled
8 In Baillie's MS. the paper referred to, is entitled, " Mr. James Ferguson's letter, given to
the Anti-Synod, by M. R. B. Jtinii 12, 1654."
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in my owne mind, which I ufe to powre out before God, and getts then
courage and ftrength to goe on, and bear the burthen.
Generall Monck went to the fields in the beginning of June, thinking and
profeffing that the difcuffing of the northern Tories would coft him bot a
few weeks labour ; and we indeed did expect no other ; for the Englifli in
men, horfe, money, and all things they could defyre, had the clear advan
tage : yet we cannot hear of any great progrefs he has made. So foone as
Glencairne had rendered his commiffion to Midletone ; on a jarre between
Monroe and Glengarie, Glencairne, fpeaking for Glengarie, got a challenge
from Monroe ; which he anfwered, and beat Monroe, to his great commenda
tion. This affront, not fo much refented by Midletoune as need had been,
together with the King's too much neglect, as fome fay, in his late commif-
fions, of Glencairne's very great fervices, upon the information, as it's thought,
of Lome and Balcarras, he left Midletone, and came with a fmall partie to
the Lennox. The noife of this malcontentment did exceedinglie difcourage
many ; bot at once Glencairne carried it foe, that all this difcouragement was
quicklie changed ; for with the fmall partie he had he defended the pafs of
Aberfoyle fo well againft Monck's frequent aflaults, and fent out, for good
purpofe fo many fmall parties to Clydefdale, Barranthrow, Cunnynghame,
Kyle, Carrick, and Galloway, as retarded a while Monck's march to the
north ; and when Monck went north, notwithftanding of all his garifones,
and befide them one full regiment of foot and ane other of horfe, left at
Glafgow and Kilfyth, the partie fent out from Glencarne did runne up and
downe the whole countrie, and did what they liked, without great impediment.
Monck fand his march to the north very troublefome : the people caried
all out of his way ; ftragglers were fnapped up ; the hills made fundrie,
both horfe and men, ficken and die. It was oft printed, that Morgan had
Midletone fo inclofed in Sutherland that he could not efcape to the fouth ;
yet when Midletone thought it time, he divided his men in parties, and
pafTed by with eafe, both Morgan and Monck, coming to Perthfhyre and
Argyle, notwithftanding all they could doe to impede him. Colonell Brian's
regiment from Ireland, landing in Lochaber, was lighted on by the countrie-
people, and near a hundred of them flaine : for this Monck did caufe
burn all the lands of the Laird of Lochaber, Glengarie, and Seaforth he
came through. Glenurchie had been too great a intelligencer to the Eng-
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lifli, and fided with Argyle againft Lome his fonne ; fo Midletoune caufed
burn much of his land. This burning, now begunne on both hands, may
ruine the whole countrie. It's thought the Englifh have their fill of the
Highland Hunting, and that the flux is fallen among them, which makes
them fpeak alreadie of quartering. It feems Midletone minds no fighting
in any bodie, hot (hiftes till he fee what tyme may bring forth. The
countrie every where fuffers much ; yet is patient, for they fee no remead ;
alfo the vicluall all this year is at four pound the boll, and great appearance
of the continuance of this greater plenty than hes been feen in our days.
What the world abroad is doeing we know noe more then the London
Diurnall tells us. What the myfterie may be of the Queen of Swan's [Swe
den's] dimiffion, and why her lad act mould have been (without all neceflitie)
a ftridt friendmip with the Protector, is much marvelled. Alfo, why for the
Protector's friendmip, contrare to the mind of the other Provinces, fhefe of
Holland mould have call off the Prince of Orange ? And if Spayne be with
the Protector upon a league offenfive and defenfive, how comes it that both
France and Portugall mould, by their ambafiadors, be begging his friendmip ?
What all this may meane we underftand not, nor what our King's journey
to the Spa imports. Yow pofliblie may make us underftand thefe things. Is
Salmafius dead ? What is become of Blondell ? What new books are among
yow ? Try to me what of Chronologic is lately come out.
Dr. Strang, your good friend, having to doe in Edinburgh with the lawyers
anent the unjuft trouble he wes put to for his flipend, after a few day's fick-
nefs did die, fo fweetlie, and graciouflie, as wes fatiffaclorie to all, and much
applauded over all the citie, his very perfecutors giving him an ample tefti-
monie. His treatife, De Providentia Dei circa Peccatum, he has enlarged,
and made it ready for the prefle. Be carefull to get it well printed, according
to the conftant friendmip that wes allwayes betwixt yow and him. They
hope yow will get it printed freely, for the piece is likely to fell ; hot if yow
muft give any money for its printing, they will bear the charge. Let me
know with the firft, your anfwer herein ; for they will fend yow the copie fo
foone as your mind is knowne, and your advice given. How is your condi
tion in Midleburgh ?9 The Englifh congregations ufe to be very fickle, and
hard to be keeped by their minifters : if your lot be better with yours, I
9 Spang was translated from Campvere to Middleburgh, 10th November 1652.
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fhall be glad. This letter is after my old fafhion : it deferves a long anfwer.
My love to your wife and children. I reft in the Lord,
Your Coufigne, R. B.
Glafgow, July 21ft 1654.
That yow may know the way of planting our Churches, have this late
pra6life. Mr. John Galbraith of Bothkennar wes depofed for tippling and
other faults, three or foure yeares agoe. When Mr. James Guthrie con
tinued to preach in Stirling, after his depofition by the Generall Affemblie,
Mr. John Galbraith followed his example, and returned to his pulpit : his
people did love him better than Stirling did the other. Of the Prefbyterie
of Stirling, Mr. James Simpfone of Airth, likewife depofed, and Mr. John
Hog of Lairbare, adhered to Mr. James Guthrie, and thefe three made one
prefbyterie. Mr. Robert Wright, and other two or three, adhering to
the Affemblie, made themfelffes another prefbyterie. Mr. George Bennet
and other two were neutralls, and abftained from both. Mr. James
Guthrie began a procefs of excommunication againft Mr. John Galbraith ;
bot he boafted fo faft to excommunicate Mr. James, if he proceeded againft
him, that this wes left off. Mr. James profeffes to have no medleing with
the Englifh at all, and to be much averfe from all complyance with them,
yea, to miflike Mr. Patrick Gillefpie's way ; yet Sir William Bruce of Stane-
houfe, his fpeciall and intime friend to this day, hes taken the fherifffhip
of Stirling from the Englifh, and continues ruling elder in Mr. James Guth-
rie's prefbyterie. By his means ane order is procured from the Englifh, that
Mr. John Galbraith fhall give over preaching : this he is forced to obey. The
whole paroch gives ane unanimous call to Mr. William Galbraith, a good
young man ; bot ane order comes from the Englifh to hinder his plantation ;
and the whole paroch fupplications, oft prefented to the Englifh, could not
get it helped ; for the Judges are fully for the Remonftrants, though Generall
Monck feems to miflyke them. Thereafter one Mr. John Blair, never
heard nor feen by the paroch, is named by Mr. James Guthrie's prefbyterie
to be minifter of that kirk ; for that people haveing adhered to a depofed
minifter, muft be counted malignant, and fo loffe their right to call, and their
right of calling muft fall in the hand of the prefbyterie ; fo ane order is pro
cured by the prefbyterie's ruling elder, Sir William Bruce, from the Englifh,
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to admitt that Blair. Mr. James Guthrie caufes conveen a great number of
his faction, from diverfe parodies about, and gets Mr. Robert Traill from
Edinburgh, and Mr. John Carftares from Glafgow, and others, to fpend a
day in preaching and prayer at this admiffion. The whole people of the
paroch meets, and keeps the other out of the kirk ; the tumult begins ; dry
ftraikes are diflributed ; fome fell upon the Sheriff's neck. The gentlemen-
parimioners, fo foon as the Sheriff produced his Engliih orders for the admif
fion, did cede ; but the people continued all day cafting ftones and crying :
yet they went on with their work, and thrufl in the man. For all this, Mr.
James Guthrie hes no dealing with the Engliih, and does no wrong ! Our
oppreflion is great and crying.
At Glafgow, Mr. Andrew Gray, a youth of twenty-two yeares at mod,
lately laureat at St. Andrewes, upon one preaching or two at Glafgow, Mr.
Patrick Gillefpie and his friends will have him admitted to his place.1 I re-
fufed to confent ; the youth being fo young, and utterly a ftranger to us ; his
tryells of expeclant being haftilie pad in the Prefbyterie of Hamilton ; and
nbne of the minifters either of Edinburgh or St. Andrewes, the places of his
refidence, being acquainted with him, as he profefied ; alfo his voyce being fo
weak, that the mod in our kirks heard him not. The Magiftrates and
Town-Counfell being utterly againft his admiffion, dealt with him earneillv
not to trouble them : at firil, his modefty wes fo great, that a fmall impedi
ment feemed enough to fkarre him from accepting of any charge ; hot fo
foone as our Seffion (which is hot the echo of what our brethren fpeaks) had
given him a call, without hoaft he went on to his tryells, and, over the bellie
of the towne's proteftation, wes admitted by their part of the Prefbyterie
minifler of Glafgow. His voice is not yet fo good as to be heard by diverfe.
He hes the new guyfe of preaching, which Mr. Hew Binning and Mr. Robert
Leighton began, contemning the ordinarie way of exponing and dividing a
text, of raifing doctrines and ufes ; hot runs out in a difcourfe on fome
common head, in a high, romancing, unfcripturall flyle,2 tickling the ear for the
1 Mr. Andrew Gray became Gillespie's successor, as minister of the Outer High Church,
Glasgow, in 1653, but died of fever in 1656 ; as noticed by Bail lie in a subsequent letter.
* His Sermons and other practical writings, like those of Binning and Leighton, not.
withstanding " the new guyse" which offended Baillie, have retained their popularity, and
are still occasionally republished.
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prefent, and moving the affedlions in fome, hot leaving, as he confeffes,
little or nought to the memorie and under/landing. This we muft miiken,
for we cannot help it.
This faction growes much among us : I fear the iffue. The Covenant
they mifregard ; the King his reflitution, or his partie's thryving, they feem
to fear ; their pietie and zeal is very fufceptible of fchifme and error : I
am oft feared for their apoftacie. Many conferences hes been among them,
Argyle, and Colonell Lockhart, for takeing up armes againfl the northern
partie ; yet nothing of this kind is done, though diverfe mints have been
made : tyme will clear the honeftie and difhoneftie of many. Our life here
is a warfare ; yet God fupports us, and we faint not. BlefTed be our Father !
who, through all thefe confufions, will bring his children to glory.
One of our friends wrote to us fome fcruples againft the conftitution of our
feparate Synod ; to which I returned the inclofed anfwer (N.) On the 1ft of
Auguft, fome of both fides did meet, hot could come to no agreement :
we gave them in our Overtures, caft in ane other mould, as yow may fee
at (O.); and they theirs to us, at (P.). Our unabilitie to deal with the
Englifh, and their continuall affiftance from that power, (fought or unfought,
I cannot fay, while they deny and many affirme,) makes us day lie loffe,
and them gaine, and many incline to their thryving fide.
After fome refrefhment from a fruitlefs journey through the hills, Monck
is againe to the field. He, Cooper, Twiflingtone, and Argyle, are at Dum-
bartone, advyfeing on a hard and forrowfull work, what houfes and what
comes to burne : this work is begun on both fides already : we know not
where it will end.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND WELL-BELOVED BROTHER, MR. JOHN YOUNG.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
THE other day when yow told me that Mr. James Veitch wes very angry
with the Preface of my Praxis, as if a part of it had been defigned againft
him, I defyred yow, of your certaine knowledge, to affure him of the con-
trare, and as I had told him before myfelff, foe I wes purpofed at my firft
leafure againe to affure him of that great miftake : for truely I would have
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been loath to have given him or any of my colleagues the leaft offence. If
I had forefeen, or yow had told me, when yow did perufe it a year agoe, be
fore it was printed, that yow had conceived either he or any in our Houfe,
would have been grieved with any thing in that or any other of my wrytes,
I would have willingly fcraped it out: hot neither yow nor I had any
fuch thought. Yow know that Preface wes written fome yeares agoe, and,
as I think, printed the lad year,3 before Mr. James had begun his Logick
notes, and fo could not fpeak of them. Alfo all the faults I complean of,
as my words expreflie bear, relate to thefe times when neither he nor any
other now in our Houfe, except yow and I, were Regents or fcarce fchollers,
and in that refpect could not concern any of them.
Befide the complaint which offends him, I made it bot of fome, and that
aliyuando, and for fuch things which in our meeting of the whole four
Univerfities wes denyed by no one man, bot heartily condefcended by all to
be remedied, as the book of our correfpondence makes clear. As for Mr.
James he wes of thefe years that, when laureat, let be lince, he could not
be called Adolefcens, and his way of teaching (as himfelf and others long
agoe told me to my wonder, for to this day was I myfelfe never able to at-
taine it) wes by dyteing, without all books and all papers, whether of his
owne or others. I take it to be many wayes evident, that in my wryte there
wes no word that concerned Mr. James his perfon at all, neither doe I know
that I have ever given him any caufe of offence. At his tryells and admifiion
I wes at Edinburgh ; at my returne I confented indeed to the proteftation
which the Rector, Dean of Facultie, yow, and others, had made concerning
the Colledge priviledges, but without any reflection on Mr. James his perfon.
Since that tyme he and I have keeped fo good correfpondence as he did de-
fyre, nor by a look, to my knowledge, have I ever offended him.
Notwithftanding, he is pleafed to fall upon me perfonally, with the mod
atrocious injuries that ever in my life have been offered to me by any. I
have had much contention, private and publi6l, in write and print, with diverfe
profefled enemies of our Church. But put all in one, I have not receaved
the fifth part of the ill ufage which Mr. James is pleafed to give me, in that
invective which, the other morning, he dyted to his fchollers expreflie againfl
3 Baillie's " Appendix Practica ad Joannis Buxtorfii Epitomen Grammatica Hebraae,"
was printed at Edinburgh, in 1653, small 8vo.
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me. It's not enough to make me a printer of contradictions, (" Sed quid
multis? Haec proprio gladio feipfa jugulant, aperta funt contradictoria"); to
make me fo ridiculous a blatterer as I muft be laughen at in the fchollers books,
with ane Ha, ha, hse ! (" Domino hsec blateranti imputanda funt : — Ha, ha,
hse !") not only to declare me, from his owne fad experience, bot to make it
good upon me in a fingle combate, and to demonftrate it in a public! try ell
betwixt me and him, that I am ane more dull and ane more unfitt man for
teaching than any the moft dull and unfitt Regents in Scotland of whom I
complaine, (" Sed vos eflis obtufi, et ad docendum inepti, — quee fi alicui, im
primis domino hsec blateranti imputanda funt ; quod experientia nunquam fatis
dolenda demonftrare poffumus : — age ineatur fingulare certamen, agatur duello,
in quo apparuerit quis ineptus, quis pinguis, quis craffus, quis obtufus, imo
et quibus vel ob indolem, vel ob eruditionem, bellius convenit do6lorum ca
thedra, et quibus melius difcipulorum fubfellia") : All this I could have born,
for it is bot of my weaknefs, which I will not deny to be great, yea, in my
folemne inauguration to. the place I now Hand in, when with much impor-
tunitie, and long dealing by all who had intereft, I wes drawn unto it, I
publickly profeffed myfelf to be much fitter to be a fcholler to others than a
mafter to any. For indeed, I am farr from thefe abilities which Mr. James
profefleth here to be in himfelfe : I am none of thefe who are confcious of
no infirmitie, (" Nee ullius infirmitatis confcii.") However, I take it no wayes
well that he dytes me to his fchollers to be guiltie of great wickednefs, where
of I think I am free : he proclaimes me a " Vitiligator," that is " Vitiofus liti
gator," a man like Theon, a poet, "rabiofse loquacitatis et petulantiffimse ma-
ledicentise," gnawing with my teeth on the good name of my neighbours ; yea,
a very Momus, eating up my owne bowels with envie, and that for a poor
caufe, that my neighbours are pleafed to make ufe of good books, (" Nos vin-
dicemus a quibufdam vitilitigatoribus, Theonino dente aliorum famam rodere
conantibus, — libris cum fcriptis turn impreflis ufi fumus, utimur, et utemur, ro-
dente interim fua interiora Momo"); all my writes, for diverfe whereof I have
receaved thanks from the moft judicious divines, not only of Scotland, bot
of the Churches abroad, muft be pronounced not only void of all learning,
bot a foolifh fpending of my time in writing nothing bot fables and toyes ;
(" Neque eruditionem efle exiftimo in congerendis et confarciendis nugis et
fabulis setatem terere") ; yea, I am declared to be poffeffed with a bitter
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fpirit, with bitternefs itfelff, with a fpirit plainly malignant, which I take to
be no other than the devill : I mud be a kaill-wyfe crying out with her (link
ing breath, and openly rageing ; I muft be a falfe man, and without reafon ;
I muft be a bead, a horfe, and that a furious one, running on my neighbors ;
("Quidam hodie — fpiritu acerbo, et plane malignante, inftar halitus vetulse
olera vendentis, fefe oftentante, falfo et fine ratione debacchati funt, — non au-
dentes fuum amarorem depromere, — inftar equi ferocientis invehuntur.") But
that which is word of all, I muft be dyted to the fchollers, and for my fake the
Brethren of my mind, which I think none will deny to be amongft the beft
divynes of the kingdome, for all good qualities, fuch as Mr. Robert Dowglafs,
Mr. David Dickfone, Mr. Robert Blair, Mr. James Wood, etc., we muft
altogether be dyted a faction, fo great enemies to grace and pietie, that by
our impious attempts piety is deftroyed, (" Homines quidam quorum impio
conatu corrupta jacet pietas"); that we are men who greedily feek after vaine
glory and popular applaufe and worldly wealth, (" Umbratilem honorem,
inanem gloriam, ventofam vulgi famam, et alia hujus vitae commoda, unice
venantur et aucupantur") ; that we count it a peft and ane epidemick difeafe
that God is filling the kirks and the fchooles with a generation of young men,
whofe eminent pietie and great learning does good to foules, which we with
our impietie would corrupt, (" Res quae eos angit eft peftis et morbus epi-
demicus, qua laborat ecclefia et ferme opprimitur, in fcholam irrepfit ; foboles
adolefcentum exorta eft quos Deus replevit vera pietate et egregiis in omni
literarum genere dotibus, in quos homines quidam, quorum impio conatu
corrupta jacet pietas, invehuntur") ; and, as if all this had been hot little, he
imports, that he hes much worfe than what is exprefled alreadie, (" Csetera
prsetereo," " cetera taceo," " at pluribus parco.")
I wifh yow may fpeak to him of this his ftrange fact : If he will (land to
the defence of it, I pray yow tell him from me, that whatever fenfe I may
have of his exceeding great wrong, yet my purpofe is to be as a deaf man
that heard not, and as a dumb man that openeth not his mouth ; to be as a
man that heareth not, and in whofe mouth are no reproofes ; that not only
at this tyme, when the whole land, Kirk, and State, are full of the fury of
the Lord, and of the rebuke of our God, drinking the cup of trembling, and
the dregs of the cup of the Lord's fury, while they that afflict us fay to our
foule, bow downe that we may goe over, I purpofe, at the Lord's com-
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mand, to lay downe my body as the ground and as the ftreet to them that
will goe over ; and after Chrift his example, to give my back to the frniters,
and my cheeks to them that pluck off the hair, and not to hide my face from
fhame and fpitting ; yea, if he pleafe to dyte alfmuch againft me to-morrow,
and once a-week to write inveclives of me to the end of the year, I can take
them on my fhoulder, and bind them as a crowne unto me, as a part of my
fufferings for righteoufnefs. Thefe many years bygane it hes been my re-
folved pradlife, wherein I purpofe, by God's grace, to continue, in all my
perfonall injuries, to doe good for ill, to pray for them that perfecute me ; fo
I mind not to revenge, I require no fatiffac~lion, but profefs my only mind
is, even through this outragious injurie, be vertew of Chrift' s command, to
doe to Mr. James a good turne, if it lye in my way.
This much I thought fitt to communicate unto yow, to be told to Mr.
James, who, I think, will take it better from yow, at this tyme of his caufe-
lefs anger, than from me. Now, leaft yow mould think I had put a worfe
conftru<5lion on his words than they may bear, take that whole paffage I
complaine off, in the beft and moft correct write I could find, when I had
compared three of the beft written books I could get. There is, indeed,
fundrie things in this leffon whilk I fuppofe will trouble both yow and me
to fett well together, for any good fence ; hot in what I have touched, I
think I have gueffed right enough at his meaning.
" ETSI magna pars anni jam elapfa fit, et temporis anguftiae quibus ftringi-
mur nos moveant ut ad finem Moralis Difciplinae, in cujus amoenis hortis diu
fpatiati fimus, properemus, ne tamen inter moralitatem aftuum humanorum
et ipfam virtutem moralem, nullius difcriminis confcientia convidii, aut nullius
infirmitatis confcii, togam deponamus, et ex Almse Matris sedibus rei clami-
tantes fugiamus, coacti fumus hie unum vel alterum verbum apponere, ut nos
vindicemus a quibufdam vitilitigatoribus, Theonino dente aliorum famam
rodere conantibus. Res eft, afferere audemus, Difputationes hafce Ethicas, et
iis prsemiffas Logicas, etfi proprio Marte concinnatas, non tamen effe lafcinias
ex libris qua fcriptis qua impreffis, (neque exiftimo cordatum aliquem fcholafti-
cum vitio vertere alicui uti libris, cum fcriptis turn impreflis, quibus ufi
fumus, utimur, et utemur, rodente interim fua interiora Momo,) imprimis ex ,
penu recentiffimorum Jefuitarum furreptas, aut confutam mendici pallatn, aut
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confarcinatum multarum nugarum magnum centonem; neque refertas effe
erroribus et veris in philofophia haerefibus, ex Jefuitarum doleis hauftis, five
vanitate animi, five indolis protervia, five incauta prudentia, quod quidam
hodie in doctores philofophiae hujus regni, (quia in eos exiftimant fefe
poflTe impune licere, praetermiflis aliis in quos non audent fuum amarorem
depromere,) fpiritu acerbo et plane malignante, inftar halitus vetulae olera
vendentis, fefe oflentante, falfo et fine ratione debacchati funt. Sed vos eftis
adolefcentes. Fateor, fed adolefcentia non eft vitium fi caetera recte proce-
dant, imo et plures ecclefiae paftores funt adolefcentes, in quos dudum plura
hujus farinae deblaterata efient, nifi timor notae impietatis et infamiae, ab iis
inuftae quorum animi eorum pietate, eruditione, et fedulitate aluntur, extrinfeco
obftaculo fuifTet. Sed vos eftis obtufi et ad docendum inepti ; (caetera praetereo,
quae fi alicui, imprimis domino haec blateranti imputanda funt, quod experientia,
nunquam fatis dolenda, edo6li demonftrare poffumus.) Ha, ha, hae ! Forfan
verum, fed male a te ferimus ; quaedam a quibufdam, fed non ab omnibus. Age
ineatur fingulare certamen, agatur duello, in quo apparuerit quis ineptus,
qwis pinguis, quis craflus, quis obtufus, imo et quibus vel ob indolem, vel ob
eruditionem (neque eruditionem efie exiftimo in congerendis et confarciendis
nugis et fabulis aetatem terere) quibus adjiciatur, fi fit animus, aetas, bellius
convenit do6lorum philofophiae cathedra, et quibus melius difcipulorum fub-
fellia. Sed quid multis ? Haec proprio gladio feipfa jugulant, aperta funt con-
tradidloria ; ac penes obtufum aliquem eft tot plauftra metaphyficarum quaef-
tionum congerere, quas non omnes capiunt, multo minus intelligunt : iniqui
igitur Judices, at pluribus parco. Res uno verbo eft quse vos angit, peftis et
morbus epidemicus qua laborat ecclefia, et ferme opprimitur, in fcholam
irrepfit ; nimirum Dei providentia in commodum ecclefiae et reipublicae literariae,
foboles adolefcentum exorta eft quos Deus replevit vera et fincera pietate in
Deum, et egregiis in omni literarum genere dotibus, in quos homines quidam,
quorum impio conatu (caetera taceo) corrupta jacet pietas (quod quidem mea
fententia pejus eft quam difciplinas alicujus magiftelli arbitrio corruptas efTe,
quod neque concedimus, cum contrarium fit in aperto) inftar equi fero-
cientis invehuntur ; quia fplendor pietatis et eruditionis illorum his praeripit
umbratilem honorem, inanem gloriam, ventofam vulgi famam, et alia hujus
vitae commoda, quae unice venantur et aucupantur."
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[THE EARL OF LAUDERDALE TO MR. ROBERT BAiLLiE.3]
KIND FRIEND,
THOUGH it be a great refrefhment to me to hear from my friends that they
are well, (which is all the intelligence I covet, and which can prejudice no
bodie,) yet I thought yow had known me better than to believe that I would
mifunderfland your filence, or intertaine the leaft doubt of your friendfhip,
of which I have fo many teftimonies. Therefore, they did no right who in
formed yow that I was malcontent with your not writing; though I did
exprefs a defyre to hear from yow, yet I am not fo eafily fubjecT; to take
the pett, efpeciallie at a friend of whofe kindnefs I am fo confident. I
(hall labour to obey your counfell, and doe flill defyre the continuance of
your prayers in my behalf, for more fubmiffion to the good will of God, and
for patience in this my condition, which, for ought I can fee, is not intended
here to be altered in hafte. But I will labour, through the grace of God, to
have patience and not to make hafte ; for He that made tymes and feafons,
knows what is fitteft for me, and will, in His due time, turne all to the
beft. This is the ftay and comfort of Yours,
LAUDERDAILL.
London, the 14th March 1654.
FOR MR. THOMAS FULLER.*
REVEREND SIR,
HAVING latelie, and but latelie, gone through your Holy Warr, and
Defcription of Paleftine, I am fallen fo in love with your pen, that I am
ferry I was not before acquaint with it, and with yourfelf, when from the
3 This letter is misplaced in Baillie's MS., as it occurs among letters written in 1656. It is
in reply to his communication on the 10th of February 1654, supra, page 235, which therefore
it ought to have followed.
4 The well known and much admired author of " The History of the Worthies of England."
In Baillie's MS. the name is written " Fowler." This eminent historian and divine was created
D.D. after the Restoration : his death, on the 15th August 1661, prevented his preferment to
a Bishopric.
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1643 to 1647, I lived at Worcefler Houfe, and preached in the Savoy, that
then, when I had fome credite there, I might have ufed my bed endeavours
to have done yow pleafure. Yow feem to promife ane Ecclefiaftick Storie : it
were a pity but it fhould be haftened.3 However I am one of thofe who
could gladlie confent to the burning of many thoufand volumes of improfit-
able writers, that burthens and harms the world ; yet there are fome pens
whom I wifh did write much, of which your's is one. Mr. Purchafe in his
Pilgrimes, from the intelligence he had by Englifh and Dutch travellers and
merchants, together with the printed treatifes of fome late Italian, Spanifh,
and French writers, gave us a very good accompt of the World, the whole
Univerfe, the prefent condition of it, as in his time. I conceave no man
were fitter than yow to let us know, in a handfome, fyne, and wyfe way, the
State of the World as now it ftands. If the Lord would put in your heart
to mind it, and give yow encouragement for fuch a performance, if yow
would put out one part of it, were it the prefent ft ate of Afia, I truft it
fhould be fo accepted by judicious men, that yow mould have from many
all defireable encouragements for the perfyting of the reft. Your cartes
are very neatly and fingularly well done : yow would not be fpareing of them.
I wifh, in your Paleftine, yow added fome more, as one or two of Chaldaea,
becaufe of many Scriptures relating to Babylon, Nineve, Ur, &c. ; the voyage
of Paul ; fome cartes of the prefent ftate, joyned with thefe of the old
Scripturall ftate, as of Egypt, Jerufalem, &c. For thefe and the like happy
labours, we, at fo great a diftance, can but encourage yow with praife, love,
and prayers to God ; which yow ftiall have, I promife yow, from me, as one
who very highly pryfes the two wrytes I have feen of your hand, and judges
by thefe that the reft yow have done or lhall doe, will be of the fame excel-
lencie. The Lord blefs yow and all your intentions ; So prays
Your very loveing and much honouring Brother,
Glafgow in Scotland, Auguft 22d 1654. R. B.
5 Fuller's work, " The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ until the
year 164H," the publication of which Baillie was desirous might be hastened, appeared in 1656,
folio. The author, in his address to the Reader, in his usual quaint manner, thus mentions
a similar wish expressed by another friend : " An ingenious gentleman some months since,
in jest-earnest, advised me to make haste with my History of the Church of England ; ' for
fear (^said he) lest the Church of England be ended before the History thereof.' "
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REVERENDISSIMO CLARISSIMOQUE VIRO D. GISBERTO VOETIO, S. LITER-
ARUM PROFESSORI IN ACADEMIA ULTRAJECTINA.
REVERENDISSIME VIR,
SINGULARIS tua in me coram humanitas, et arnica femel iterumque per
literas falutatio, imprimis vero eximium illud et nunquam obliterandum offi-
cium, de quo interea temporis per epiflolam multas ferio gratias habui,
Belgica meee ad Bramblium replicae editio Ultrajedli ; ifta omnia faciunt ut
jam aufus fim ad te tranfmittere binos hofce tractatulos, quos nuper in
ftudiofae noftrae juventutis gratiam publicavi: priorem grammaticum, cujus
tria habes exemplaria ; eorum unum tua cura deferri cupio Lugdunum D.
Golio, et alterum Bafileam Joanni Buxtorphio, eo fine quern in prsefatione
indigito. Utinam hac occafione a viris prseftantiffimis, tibi, nullus dubito,
amiciffimis et intus notis, tua auctoritate impetres meum multorumque defide-
rium ; tres intelligo Praxes, Chaldaico-Syriacam, Rabbinico-Maforeticam, et
Arabicam. Magna ifta beneficia non folum auctoribus, fed etiam tibi exoratori,
Chriftianae omnes fcholse lubentes debebunt. Si vero contingat, quod nol-
lem, ut uterque de quacunque feu caufa feu praetextu refugiat puerilem ilium
quidem, etfi viris, ut ego arbitror, fatis dignum laborem, et academiis omnibus,
fat fcio, perutilem, habes, ni fallor, ex tuis difcipulis non paucos, qui tuo
hortatu animati et confilio inftructi, omnes iftas Praxes, parvo tempore magna
fua cum laude et aliorum commodo, poffunt edere. Egregius tuus in com-
moda fcholarum zelus longe lateque dudum innotuit ; ut hoc etiam ipfis bene-
ficium velis quam fieri poteft mature procurare, multorum eft defiderium, et
mea magna fpes. Illic vos habetis, praeter alia fupra nos, ingens commodum
Latinorum, Graecorum, Hebraicorum, et Arabicorum typographos, qui medi-
tata veftra omnia eleganter et emendate ftatim imprimunt. Quidni ex Pari-
fienfibus et jam Londinenfibus Bibliis edant illi, in ftudioforum et fuum etiam
amplum commodum, feorfim Biblia Arabica et Syriaca, cum interlineari Latino;
quotufquifque enim eft qui caeterorum omnium fumptui ferendo par eft ?
Verum id quod animum meum magis folicitum habet, eft radicatum
jam in omnibus Proteftantium fcholis cacoethes ; artium et philofophiae
Encyclopaedia nullibi, quantum intelligo, ea accuratia traditur, quam vel docto-
268 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1654.
rum vel difciplinarum dignitas poftularet. In Jefuitarum, aliorumque
raonachorum Hifpanorum, Gallorum, Italorum, et Gennanorum, curfi-
bus verfandis noftri difcipuli omne fuum tempus propemodum conterunt:
quantum hoc eft noftris Academiis cum dedecus turn detrimentum ? Nulli-
ne in Ifraele fabri ? Quamdiu nos ad Philiflseos ob exacuenda ferramenta de-
fcendere cogemur ? Praeter alia multa hujufce pudendi mali incommoda,
annon nimis quam multi noftrorum adolefcentum a teneris ipfis unguiculis
ea hauriunt incauti principia, quorum odorem tetrum et venenatum non
nifi fero et difficulter, fi modo unquam, eluunt ? Praeter ea quae corruptarum
mentium magiftri dedita opera infpergunt, ut inde retia et laquei difcipulis
tendantur, quibus aliquando pertrahantur ad tranfubftantiationis, adorationis
imaginum, liberi arbitrii, Trinitatis in unitate, duarum naturarum in una
perfona inconfiftentiae, et alia Pontificiorum, Arminianorum, Socinianorum pra-
viflima dogmata; probe nofli quae fatuus haereticus Cartefius fub novae fuae et
perfections philofophiae velo molitus fit. Profe6lo non parum intereft EC-
clefiis Reformatis, ut orthodoxum, folidum, et perfpicuum philofophiae cor-
ptfs, tarn fyftematicum quam textuale et quaeftionarium, exftet, in communem,
fi fieri pofiet, omnium Academiarum ufum. Erant apud nos non ita pridem
multi egregii philofophi, qui, fi id agere voluiflent, curfus philofophicos non
contemnendos publico dedifle poterant; fed ea hodie noftras Ecclefias et
fcholas una cum regno calamitas premit, ut a nobis nihil ejufmodi jam fit ex-
pectandum. Nefcio fi in Anglia aut Gallia fratres ullos in praefentiarum habe-
amus, quibus volentibus fimul et valentibus onus hoc pofiet imponi. Quan
tum hactenus intelligere potui, ratio tradendae philofophiae locis iftis ad hunc
diem apud noftros curta nimis fuit et fuperficiaria. Unica in vobis reftat fpes.
Exiftimo in veftro Belgio, etiam in Helvetia, Hafiia, ac Palatinatu reperiri viros,
a quorum eruditione et induftria, modo huic operae ferio incumbere a quo-
quam perfuaderentur, pulchra adeo liberarum omnium artium et philofophiae
Encyclopaedia pofiet exfpectari ; ut earn omnes, certe permultae Proteftantium
fcholae, magnis cum gratiis ambabus ulnis ampleclerentur ; quae magno cum
fru&u, magnaque cum voluptate ftudiofis praelegeretur ; qua didlatorum hodie
a regentibus, ut nos folemus nuncupare, multi defectus fupplerentur, errata
corrigerentur, plurimi abufus apud multos, alias incorrigibiles, profligarentur, et
a Proteftanti nomine foeda dedecoris nota tandem aliquando ablueretur, cum
non ultra necefle haberemus ad Pontificiorum philofophorum infecluTimas
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lacunas tenellam noftram juventutem amandare, dicam an protrudere ? Syfte-
mata logica, ethica, phyfica, et metaphylica dudum accepimus a doctiffimis
et fumme induftriis viris Keckermanno, Burgerfdicio, Scheiblero, et a Voflio
rhetorica ; fed quod ultra defideramus eft, prseter ifta commoda fatis inci-
pientibus fundamenta, Ariftotelici etiam textus in logicis, ethicis, et meta-
phyficis, brevis ac perfpicua explicatio, partibus quae noftro feculo non funt
accommodate omiflis, et ad fingula capita aut faltem libros fubjecta quaeftionum
et locorum communium vulgarium paulo fufior enodatio, fed brevior, nervo-
fior, et clarior quam fuis hodie difcipulis Jefuitae tradunt. Mathematicorum
etiam corpus plenum et ad juventutis ufus accommodatum nollet negligi.
Alfledii fceleta non fatiffaciunt. Utinam Academiarum curatores audoritate,
confilio, hortatibus, praemiis, aut etiam imperio, profeflbres fuos ad opus hocce
perficiendum vellent impellere : praefens pofteraeque aetates, mini perfuadeo,
gratiflimam et utiliffimam hujufce fementis melTem demeterent. Multoties hac
de re anxie et majori cum dolore quam fpe meditanti, unus tu occurrebas, qui
mihi videbare apud omnes noftrorum in Germania et Helvetia Academias,
ea merito audoritate pollere, eaque inftrui prudentia, ac boni publici zelo
flagrare, ut, li quis alius, poffes, Deo tuis conatibus afpirante, viros huic
coepto perficiendo non ineptos reperire, repertofque illis a teipfo et aliis inci-
tamentis animare, ut non illubentes velint Deo, reformatis Ecclefiis, noftro
huic et fequentibus faeculis, laudatiffimam hanc fuam operam collocare.
Meminifti etiam quot et quam falebrofae chronologorum quaeftiones, eaeque
ad diferta Scripturse verba elucidanda neceffariae, in tenebris adhuc jaceant.
Quantopere nuper apud noftros fervere folebat hoc ftudium, Scaligeri, Funccii,
Bucholceri, Calvifii, Capelli, Emmii, et aliorum laudatiffimi labores demon-
ftrant : hanc nobis gloriam Jefuitse nunc ereptum eunt voluminofis Saliani,
Petavii, Tornielli et aliorum fcriptis. An nemo quifquam eft vel in
Belgio vel Helvetia, vel in fuperiori Germania, qui volens eft et idoneus
huic vacare curse ?
Multi jam funt anni ex quo Bibliothecam edidifti ; valde defideratur editio
ejus altera cum auetario ; fed quod ante omnia ftudiofi hie omnes a te
expetunt, eft caeterarum tuarum Difputationum publicatio, cui dudum in
primo volumine obftrinxhTe tete occlamitant, et mirantur qui tarn tardum
nomen evaferis. Propinquum, nuperum, et dolendum nimis Spanhemii (heu
qualis theologi !) exemplum docere te poteft, quam maturanda, imo feftinanda
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fint omnia quac babes in fcriniis ; nimis quam multorum poftbumi labores
variis cafibus perierunt.
Vides quam familiariter in tuum finum effuderim animi mei fenfa, confidens
i'u in mum tuum candorem sequi bonique omnia confulturum.
Quod ad alterum meum tra&atulum, adolefcentibus etiam noftris deftina-
tum, fi quid in eo veritati non confonet, oro doceas, ut quanto ocius corriga-
tur. Tandem finio, Dominum venerans, velit tibi largiri multos et felices dies,
quo fuo honori, et Ecclefiarum emolumento ac folamini aliquandiu adbuc in
terris alacer infervias. Votum hoc eft fratris tui obfervantiffimi,
R. B.
Glafguae, Idibus Septembris 1654.
Poft Syftemata, apud nos prseleguntur a magiftris Ariftotelis Organon,
Etbica ad Nicomachum, Phyfica Acroafis, de Genera tione et Corruptione,
de Coelo, Meteoris, et Anima. Librorum illorum exemplaria pauca admodum
luperfunt vel Londini vel Amfterodami. Si tuo monitu veftri typographi
vellent recudere Organon, cum verfione et notis Pacii, fimiliter Etbicam,
cum notis Riccoboni, et Phyfica, cum verfione et notis editionum priorum,
officium facerent nobis pergratum, et fibi ipfis, ut arbitror, perutile.
REVERENDO ET CLARISSIMO VIRO ROBERTO BALJSO, THEOLOGIZE IN
ACADEMIA GLASCUENSI PROFESSORI DIGNISSIMO.
REVERENDE et clariffime Vir, Frater in Chrifto obfervande, tuas Eid.
Septembris fuperioris anni ad me fcriptas tandem accepi circa 13 aut 14
Martii conjunctas cum fcriptione communis amici noftri D. Gul. Spangii, 8
Martii. Nunc tandem ad fingula literis tuis contenta, ordine refpondeo.
Quod ad exemplaria utriufque libelli a te in gratiam ftudioibrum editi, pro
dono et opera impenfa gratias tibi debeo et ago quas poffum maximas.
CatechefinElencticam, compendiofe ex Scripturarumfontibuspropofitam, video
imprimis Anglis et Scotis tuis efie neceflariam. Quod fi adverfarii earn ad-
mordere incipiant (de quo exulcerata haec tempora vix dubitare me finunt)
dabitur tibi infignis occafio objeclionum et exceptionum folutionibus opufcu-
lum hoc tuum locupletandi. Manuduclionem tuam Analyticam puto omnibus
1655. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 2?1
abunde fatiffac"luram. Nihil ergo in illo fludii genere reftabit,
quam ut textum Biblicum quotidie legant et relegant, eumque quam famili-
ariffimum iibi reddant, confultis, ubi opus fuerit, Buxtorfii Epitome Radicum,
et incomparabili Thefauro Grammatico. Hanc matrem ubi quis fibi conci-
liarit, baud difficulter filiam quamvis exambiet. Sunt illse in univerfum fex,
aut, fi mavis, feptem ; Rabbinica, Talmudica, Chaldaica, Samaritana, Syriaca,
Arabica, ^Ethiopica. 1 . Manuduc~lionem ad intelligentiam Rabbinifmi, quern
ufurpant commentatores textuales feu grammatici (quorum Ie6lio theologis
utiliflima, pene neceffaria) propediem dabit clariff. collega nofter Joannes
Leufden, in hac Academia Hebraicse Lingua profeffor : fudet enim fub prselo
propheta Jonas, cum Rabbinorum commentariis, ut et utraque Mafora, punc-
tatis et in Latinum tranflatis, cum fubjecla analyfi grammatica et notis.
Iftius libelli folo duc"lu, abfque praeceptore in legendis omnibus Rabbinicis
commentariis, iftius fcilicet generis quos Peroufchin appellare folent, pro arbi-
trio ffvv fau pergere poterunt vulgares quique ftudiofi. Rabbinicos commen
taries allegoricos, quos Derafchim appellant, fi quis iflarum rerum curiofus tanti
faciat, illos proprio Marte fcrutari poterit, quifquis abbreviaturas Buxtorfii et
Lexicon ejufdem Rabbinicum ad manum habuerit. 2. Talmudicse cogni-
tionem longe faciliorem nunc reddidit editio Mifchaniot, cum punctis Amfle-
lodami adjec~lis ; facillimam vero reddet interpretatio interlinearis aut margi-
nalis Latina alicujus faltem trac~latus cum aliquo capite rov Gemara, adjecta
analyfi grammatica et notis. Hanc operam non gravate in fe fufcipiet lauda-
tus modo collega. Ita via patebit docTrinee Talmudicse fludiofis ad totum
Talmud, auxiliante Lexico Rabbinico Buxtorfii nunquam fatis laudando.
3. Chaldaicam dialectum jam fatis mihi vifus illuftraffe Buxtorfius in Gram
matica Chaldaica et Syriaca, cui exercitatio fubje&a: plura fi quis forte defideret,
is poterit uti Jonse paraphrafi Chaldaica, cum verfione, analyfi grammatica,
et notis, a collega noftro edendis. Adminicula perpetua hie erunt Lexicon
Rabbinicum Buxtorfii (quod etiam Targumica omnia explicat) et Lexicon
Syro-Chaldaicum Buxtorfii filii, in 4°. 4. Samaritana dialectus, quamvis ab
Hebraica et Chaldaica parum difFerat, difficilis tamen prima fronte apparet,
quod alio plane characlere utatur. Coepi agere et porro agam cum D. NifTelio,
qui Lugduni Batavorum privatim vexillum linguarum orientalium effert, ut
capita aliquot Pentateuchi Samaritani, ex magnis Bibliis Parifienfibus excerpta,
cum notis et tranflatione excudi curet. 5. Syriacse dialecli notitiam etiam com-
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planavit Buxtorfius in Grammatica modo dicta, ubi etiam exercitatio comparet.
Unum folummodo deed, quod charac~lere Syro deftitutus fuerit typographus ;
fed nuper defeclum ilium fupplevit Dilcherus, qui Grammaticam hujus linguae,
cum exercitatione, vocabulis Syris Syro charadlere exprefiis, publicavit tit.
Eclogarum Syriacarum. Lexicon Syriacum, fi quis requirat, indico illi Crinefii
et Buxtorfii filii ; fed utrumque ex folo Novo Teftamento et Rituali Severi col-
lec~lum. Nunc, quia Parifiis etiam Vetus Teftamentum Syriace editum fuit,
Lexica augenda erunt. 6. Arabicse dialee~li Grammaticam et exercitationem
dedit Erpenius, qua? fufficere videtur. Poftea legant ftudiofi D. Niflelii epif-
tolas Jacobi, Johannis, Judae, Arabice cum punctis et verfione Latina. Hoc
labore peraclo, inoffenfo pede pergant ad reliquos facros, aut alios libros quos
nancifci poterunt, comitante ipfos Lexico Arabico D. Golii. 7. -<Ethiopica
dialeclus, ex Chaldaica et Arabica conflata, nullo fere labore addifci poterit, et
quidem proprio Marte, ab iis qui Arabic® et Chaldaicae plane rudes non funt.
Libri antehac difficulter haberi potuerunt. Ego folo Pfalterio ^Ethiopico, una
cum Gr. Heb. Lat., Coloniae per Job. Potkens emiflb, hucufque ufus fum, ut
retinerem et augerem quse, manu ducente ad pauculas horas amico iflius linguae
fatis gnaro, coeperam alphabetare. Sed nuper D. Nifielius ^Ethiopice Jacobi,
Johannis, et Judae Epiftolas, cum verfione Latina nobis impertivit, et fpem
fecit epiftolas Petri propediem fecuturas. Hunc ergo libellum comparent fibi
ftudiofi, et in eo ftudii hujus tyrocinia ponant. Extant Grammatical duae
Romae excufae, ideoque non ita parabiles. Ernefti Job. Gerardi, filii Celebris
theologi Lutherani Joh. Gerardi, Grammatica Harmonica, Hebr. Chald.
Syr. Arab. uEthiop. in 4°. ftudiofis ad alia properantibus abunde fufficiet.
Lexicon ^Ethiopicum Wenmeri in tranfalpinis bibliopoliis non extat, prae-
terquam quod longe au6lius defideretur ; et multo magis fcriptores ^Ethio-
pici, qui an alicujus pretii illic extent, aut etiam integra Biblia, haclenus fciri
non potuit. Feruntur efle miflTalia feu liturgica fcripta ; fed ut olim Graeco-
rum, fie hodie Romanorum fidei parum aut nihil tribuendum eft. Fuerunt
viri do6li, qui alias quafdam linguas orientales Hebraicae filias, aut propa-
gines, aut dialeclos ftatuerunt, fed imperite, cum omnes fint linguae peculi-
ares. Propter Hebraicam ergo, aut cum refpeclu ad earn et ad philologiam
facram, tales a theologis conferri haud opus. Inter eas tres funt, quae charac-
tere Arabico utuntur, Perfica, Turcica, Malacica ; quod forte viros doclos in
errorem duxit. Duae, ut vocabulis, fie etiam charactere ab Hebraica reliquis-
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que ejus dialec~lis diftincliffirnae funt, Armenica fcilicet, et antiqua Coptica, feu
^gyptiaca. Hodierna ^Egyptiaca ante 400 annos introducla, aut potius facta
vulgaris, eft ipiiffima Arabica. Has quinque orientales fi quis ex abundant! a
limine falutaverit, operam non luferit ; fed non puto operse pretium faclurum
quenquam theologorum, fi in penetralia earum fe immiferit, antequam
rariores et praeftantiores fcriptores viderit ad fcopum fuum aliqua ratione
facientes. Multa de Coptica Athanafius Kircherus in Copto Prodrome,
multa de Perfica alii, plura de Armenica nonnulli buccinant ; fed manus oculatae
funt, credunt quod vident. Libelli paraenetici feu morales, liturgici, rhythmico-
poetici, catechifmi papiftici, mythologici, non tantum temporis merentur.
Satis mihi fuit acquifita facultate legendi, et perluftratis grammaticis, partem
aliquam in fcriptore delibafte, turn ut curiolitati meae fatiffacerem, turn ut
proprio judicio difcernere, et propriis oculis videre pofTem, an linguae illae
effent diftinctae ab Hebraica, cum diale6lis feu filiabus, an vero ei propius aut
remotius affines. Haclenus plus fatis de linguis.
De chronologia non ita folicitus fum, cum copia magis fcriptorum hie labo-
remus quam inopia. Unum folum meo judicio reftat, ut quis hiftoriarum pro-
feflbr, aut potius minifter, unus atque alter vicarius, (illi enim in minoribus
eccleliis mole negotiorum minus premuntur,) ex omnibus fcriptoribus chro-
nologicis, tarn pontificiis quam noftris, magnam partem a me in Bibliotheca
Theologica indicatis, methodum artis chronologicae colligat, per definitiones
et diviliones, ad exemplum Alftedii in Praecognitis Theologicis, et Scaligeri in
Canonibus Ifagogicis ; additis ad lingula capita quaeftionibus et controverfiis,
cum rationibus in utramque partem adferri folitis, et indicatis quorumcunque
auc~lorum libris ac nominibus. In fecunda parte hujus artis, quam cano-
nicam vocant, velim tantum annos ab initio mundi ufque in hunc diem per
aetates, intervalla, articulos, et fecula, quali in tabella diftribui, et fingulis
quaeftiones et controverfias cum rationibus utrinque allatis fubjici. Videbo
an uni atque alteri ex nofiratibus miniftris opus hoc commendari queat.
Accedamus nunc ad philofophiae curfum, de quo maxime laboratur. Syftemata,
compendia, fynopfes tecum relinquo. Certe in illis plus fatis praeftitum videtur.
Reftat folummodo, ut controveriiae logicae, phyficae, metaphyficae, imprimis,
deinde etiam ethicae ac politicae, (quae tamen ad theologiam pleraque fi rejici-
antur, nihil abfurdi committitur, ) accurate, breviter, perfpicue ventilentur, et
rationes atque exceptiones utriufque partis examinentur ; ac tandem pro veri-
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tate, hoc eft, pro philofophia, facris literis atque orthodoxiae ancillante, deter-
minetur, contra recentiores Suarezium, Conimbricenfes, Ruviuin, Telefium,
Baranzanum, Oviedo, Mendoza, Vafquez, imprimis protervum paradoxium et
novaturientem fophiftem Ariaga, ad haec, contra Taurellium, Gorlaeum,
Cartefium, et Cartefianos, Socinianos, Remonftrantes, Libertines. Arifto-
telis textum an feorfim cum brevibus et perfpicuis notis, et generali librorum
ac capitum analyfi, feu hypothefi, per modum tabellae excudi conveniat, an
vero potius cum curfu quaeftionum feu controverfiarum, nondum ftatuere
poflum. Certe prolixi illi libri Metaphyficorum vix ullo ordine con-
fcripti, et farraginem multarum rerum continentes, non videntur juven-
tuti facro ftudio deftinatae proponendi. Totius mathefeos concretae, mu-
ficae fcilicet, flaticae, opticae, aftronomiae, geographiae, illuftriores quaef-
tiones in fafciculum ex praeftantioribus artificibus colligendae, praemiflis
folum elementis necelTariis, ex arithmetica, geometria, fpherica, mufica collec-
tis. Syftemata ipfa ftaticae, aftronomiae, geographiae, opticae, ftudiofi dielis
elementis imbuti, abfque manuduciione fuo tempore legerent. Hoc quidem
confilium noftrum eflet. Quibus autem hac tempeftate tarn utile opus de-
mandandum (it, et a quibus expectandum, fateor me nondum videre. Si enim
veftrarum quatuor Academiarum tarn praeclarum inftitutum in fpongiam incu-
buit, quid de noftris Belgicis fperandum ? Quaedam ex illis per Cartefianam
philofophiam graviter concuflae funt ; aliae inteftinis fuper eadem philofophia
diffidu's admodum adhuc vacillant et fluctuant, turbonibus nufquam figenti-
bus, nufquam quiefcentibus ; fobrie philofophantibus contra obnitentibus, et
hoc unice agentibus ut clavum teneant, nee fluclibus opprimantur. Nifi Deus
ex alto nos refpexiflet, jam praefentiflimum periculum alicubi imminebat, tra-
hendum ad partes theologiae ; ita impletum fuiflet in nobis, quod Bernardus
de ecclefia paulatim collapfa olim pronunciabat : " In pace mea amaritudo
amariflima," etc. Quod fi haec tempeftas aliquando defaeviat, et non amplius
protrudantur in cathedras philofophicas novi philofophaftri, et ftulti ac petu-
lantes juvenculi, turn demum nobis de curfibus philofophicis conjuncla Aca
demiarum opera adoraandis cogitandum eflet. De Palatinatu, Haflia, aliifque
Germaniae partibus, fruftra verba facimus ; quod fcholis nondum aut vix
inftauratis, veterani et exercitati philofophi illic non fuppetant, quod fciam,
qui fubtiliter et erudite graviffimis controverfiis ventilandis, et ad theologiae
ftabilimentum adaptandis fufficiant. Celebris nunc apud Gallos et Helve-
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tios eft Derodo, profeffor philofophiae Araufionenlis, qui curfum logicum, phy-
ficum, metaphyficum, ethicum dicitur editurus. Admodum fubtilis audit,
et utriufque philofophiae, tarn pontificiae quam noftrae, peritus. Amplius
inquiram in Thefes Academicas ipfius, et librum quendam Gallicum de
Euchariftia, contra pfeudo-philofophemata Papiftica editum, ut ex ungue
leonem cognofcam : ut quidem quafdam ipnus difputationes ann. 1648.
editas curfim infpicio, deprehendo eum in tota phyfica fatis effe paradoxum.
Atque haec de inftauranda in Academiis philofophia.
Exemplar libri tui D. Golio deftinatum curavi, atque una literis meis
ad ipfum conlilium et votum tuum de adminiculis linguarum orientalium
fignificavi ; fed nihil refponfi ha6lenus recepi. Alterum exemplar D.
Buxtorfio tranfmittam, nmul ac ftudiofus quis eo peregrinaturus obtulerit.
De ftatu ecclefiae veftrae in particulari parum aut nihil hie certo cognofcimus :
non dennimus tamen earn precibus noftris Deo cornmendare. Poft tenebras
lucem fperamus. Hoc omnibus vobis agendum, ut uKg'&ziav dodtrinse re-
formatae cum limplicitate rituum ac regiminis religiofe cuftodiatis, atqiie una
praxin pietatis qua publice qua privatim ftudiofe promoveatis. Quod ut
quifque noftrum in fua flatione ex animo velit et agat, Deum noftrum in
Chrifto fupplex veneror.
Tui obfervantifs.
Ultrajecti, Eid. Ap. CIO.IOC.LV. GISBERTUS VOETIUS.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND WEEL-BELOVIT BROTHER MR. J. HAMILTOUN,
MINISTER AT EDINBURGH.**
JAMES,
I HOPE you gott myn of October 1. Mr. George [Young] heirwith gives you
ane account of our Sinod, and Mr. Ja. F[ergufon], which I fent you on Friday,7
ane account of their Comittee efter the Synod. Mr. Ja. Fer. hes ondertaken
for fome in Irwin, and I am doing heir for Mr. Melvill ; you mall get ane ac-
6 From the original in Wodrow MSS- Folio Vol. XXVI, No. 16. It is entirely in Baillie's
own hand ; but his peculiar and scarcely intelligible orthography has not been closely fol
lowed. Wodrow indorsed this letter as written in 1656, but it belongs to the previous year.
7 Fergusson's letter, dated "Glasgow, October 5th 1655," is preserved in the same Vol. No. 6.
276 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1655.
count of it ere long. M. P. G[illefpie,] and S. G[eorge] Maxwell, and Mr.
Alex. Dunlope, purpofes to be there on Tuyfday, with Broghil and Munk,
to tak of their party all thefe calumnies which Mr. R. Trayl wreit you had
laid on them. Be on your guard, for they ar to prefs you for a meeting for
Union. I fheu them a meeting was needlefs, till firfl they gave their fence
of our Overtur at our laft meeting ; which, for that end, I gave them. I
think you would fland by our laft conclufion, that it is needlefs for us to
meet who have deliverit our full mynd to them, except they can cum to it,
or towards it. If you agree with the Inglifh, you need feir them the lefs.
It feems Mr. P. G. as he hes crufhit Wariftoun and M. Guthry's motion of
the Covenant, fo he is refolut to cary on the Union, contrary to their mynd,
though they fould divid on it, if fo he be fure to be accomodat for himfelf.
A paper is necefiar to aunfuer your former arg[uments] of prayer for the
King, even in cafe of fuffering ; (call no needlefs meeting of thefe who ar
fair off; wher your letters may do as weell : faill no to let us knou all you
ar doing ;) I can not aunfuer, (nor can I find in my hert to afiay it,) what
was brought from the Covenant for that deuty. Let fome there be cairfull
to fatiffie Mr. Thomas Boyd : M. R. Douglas knoues him, he is a zelous man
for our caufe, to his pith, and, if onfatiffied, he may Humble a multitude of
good people he walkes among. My fervice to your kind D. [daughter ?]
Yours,
October 8[th 1655.] R. B.
Nothing 1 faw from you the laft week.
They who have redd the New Covenant, fayes it's a very fhreud peice, of
tuo fheet of paper. It would [fhould] be fearchit for8 with all poffible cair : it
declairs the mynd of thefe who are for it, to ftate the fhifme of our Church
for ever ; it reveels more of their purpofes. They profefs this their motion
for Union is their ultimus conatus ; and if it faill on our fyd, fome of them
fpeeks of ane Eraftian Comittee from the Inglifh, of gentilmen and minifters,
to purge and plant all the land. Albeit I tak this for a vain boaft, which
R This alludes to a paper on " Per onal Covenanting," which was drawn up by some of
the Protesters at this time, but with no intention on their part wholly to renounce the former
Covenants. Baillie. infra p. 297, attributes it to Guthrie, but he evidently had not seen the paper
itself; the copies of which, as never formally adopted, were not allowed to get into circulation.
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fundry of themfelf ar againft, yit you had need to be very warry of Mr. P.
G[illefpie] at this tyme, both of his dealing with you for Union, and with
the Inglifh for pouer to their fyd. The Lord give you wifdom, courage, and
diligence at this nick of tym. I wiih Mr. Wood and Mr. Kerr wer with
you. I think if they agree, it's to fkrew themfelf in the reft of the Sinods
and Prefbiteries, whence now they ar excludit, to ae~l, with our confent, all
the materialls of their New Covenant.
To MR. WILLIAM SPANG.
COUSIN,
I GOE on to give yow ane account of our affaires where I left, in my laft
long letter. The Lord has given myfelf above this twelvemoneth much
more peace than I had before, and than I expected upon this occafion.
Yow heard the overtures we proponed for the Union of our Synod, which
were the leaft we could receave before we mould joyne. Though among
ourfelves unanimouflie we had agreed to keep up our part of the Synod, if
the fubftance of all thefe were not granted, and the brether of Edinburgh, to
whom I went for advyce, had appro ven that our resolution ; and the chief
of the prefbyteries of Aire and Irvine, with whom I had mett alfo at Irvine,
had agreed to adhere to thefe overtures ; and if they, being minimum quod
tfa, mould be refufed, they concluded to fet up their two prefbyteries in a
fynod by themfelves, according to their ancient priviledge acknowledged
in all our late Generall Affeinblies ; alfo, when we mett at our fynod, thefe
on our fide agreed againe to adhere to former refolutions : Notwithftand-
ing, when the brethren of the other fide had peremptorilie refufed our over
tures, and drawne on a new conference, to try if two of each fide, particu-
larlie Mr. James Fergufone and Mr. George Young for us, Mr. James
Durhame and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie for them, could fall on any other over
tures which might unite us, thefe four among themfelves condefcended to
the inclofed paper (A.), and ingaged themfelves to doe their beft to perfuade
others thereto. When I did fee the paper, I fand clearlie, that the finall
determination of all things was left in the fynod, whereof Remonftrants were
the pluralitie ; and that no remeid was left us againft the oppreffion, either
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in purging or planting, that was for any purpofe ; and that this agreement
was a clear receding from our former determination. I did not yield to it :
yet fear from the Remonftrants violence, and love of peace, and hope, by
yielding, to make them more moderat, made the moft declare their content
ment to accept of it ; the neutrals of Aire, Mr. Cobroun and others, were
fo much for it, that they threatened to joyne with the others if we refufed it ;
all they of Lanerik were willing to accept of it ; all of Glafgow, except one ;
and of Dumbartane except two ; and of Irvine except two. Finding it fo, I
was glad at my heart that a fair door to my private peace was opened ; for
not being willing to accept of the termes of that agreement, I had a clear
reafon to abfent myfelf from the fynod and prefbyterie, united on fo unjuft
termes. The brethren of my former mind finding me refolute not to
joyne with them, were defirous to keep with me, efpeciallie the authors of
the late overture, Mr. Fergufone and Mr. Young. Bot this by no means
I would permitt; for they having declared almofl all their willingnefs to
unite on thefe mean termes, I would not have them draw back, contrare to
tbeir minds, upon my difient : fo with much adoe I got them to joyne, and
let me, and a few more, ferve my owne mind of abflaining from their united
meetings. This hitherto I have done, to the great quietnefs of my owne
mind, and freedome of the very frequent and vexatious janglings, where
with, in all meetings, I was wont exceedinglie to be troubled : only I am
grieved to fee my predictions too truelie to come to pafs ; the Remonflrators,
as unqueflionablie matters, to doe within the bounds of the fynod whatever
they think expedient. Mr. Archibald Denniftone, without any considerable
fault, they depofed : when he fled to the Engliih, Mr. Patrick Gillefpie,
as I forefaw, by his greater credite, flopped all hearing there. Mr. David
Adamfone, though of many libelled fcandalls they got not one proven, yet
ftill they keep on the pannell ; and our moft regular plantation of Mr. James
Ramfay, Mr. Archibald Inglifh, and one in Robertoun, they will have an
nulled, and the moft irregular plantations of their men to ftand. At their
next dyett they will fall on whom they pleafe, without controll. However,
being free of public!; debates, without, as I think, my oune procurement, but
the ram imprudence (if not the too much wifdome) of others, I am glad.
I was like to have been more troubled by another defigne of a larger
Union. Mr. Durhame goeing through Saint Andrewes to his houfe of Purie,
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he fell with Mr. Blair to refume his old coimfells of a generall union with the
Remonftrators, by ane overture of oblivion of bygones. For this end, Mr.
Blair and he deall with Mr. Wood to be content of a conference at Edin
burgh upon that fubject, together with the other purpofes we were much
vexed with, prayer for the King, and admifiion of complyers to the commu
nion ; alfo they went on to defigne the conferrers. For us they named Mr.
Robert Dowglafs, Mr. David Dickfon, Mr. Hew Mackell, Mr. W. Raite, Mr.
William Dowglafs of Aberdeene, Mr. John Robifone of Dundee, Mr. James
Wood, Mr. James Fergufone and me. For the other, Mr. James Guthrie,
Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, Mr. John Livingftone, Mr. Samuel Rutherfoord, Mr.
Robert Traile, Mr. John Carftares, Mr. Samuell Auften, and fome three
more. So foon as I heard of this motion fo farr advanced, I was much feared
for the confequence of it, and therefore writ to Mr. David Dickfon to beware
of the danger; and being Weft, called Mr. John Bell, Mr. William Ruffell,
and Mr. Robert Wallace, to advyfe on it. All of them were afraid of the
iflue ; yet none would be at the paines of rideing to Edinburgh to confult
about it. This I behooved to doe myfelfe. When I came there, I fand the
brethren not at all minding the matter ; but fetting the hazard before their
eyes, I got them roufed up to look about them, and to commifiionat me to
bring from the Weft whom I thought fitt for that conference, to write them-
felves to Mr. Knox and Mr. Jamifone, with others in the South, and to Mr.
Robert Young, Mr. James Sharpe, and others in the North, to be prefent.
When we came to the meeting, I was glad the danger was not fo great as I
apprehended. The Remonftrators had as little a mind to unite with us as we
with them. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie indeed, and Mr. John Carftares, and a
few others, were for capitulating ; but Wariftone, Mr. James Guthrie, and
others, were as rigid as ever ; yea, whether by their contriveing or other-
wayes, it wes fo, that we could have no conference. We had drawne up ane
overture, as we thought, very favourable, and fo far as we could goe (C.I.),
according to the Aflemblie's late overture for union (C. 2.), and by the hands
of the tryfters, Mr. Blair, and Mr. Durhame, fent it into their meeting : alfo
the tryfters had given us both their overtures (D.) to be thought upon ; but the
Remonftrators told us, in regard of Mr. Rutherfoord's and Mr. Livingftone's
abfence, they could not at that time engage in a conference; and therefore
defyred a new meeting. We were not content that they had made us travell
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in vaine, and thought not fitt to appoint a meeting, till they mett among
themfelves, and confidered the paper we had given to them, if they could
acquiefce to it, or fend us any better whereto we could acquiefce : upon the
advertifement of fome probabilitie of accommodation from Mr. Dickfon
to us, and Mr. Traile to them, there might be a meeting fo foone as they
thought fit. Soe, after a little prefacing by delegates from both meetings, we
parted before we entered in any conference. We underftood, that our over
ture was laughen at by their high ftomacks ; and as for that of Mr. Blair's,
we were offended all of us with it, as granting to the Remonftrators almoft all
their unreafonable defyres. For this we expoftulated fharply enough with
Mr. Blair, and he with us. . But he was much more offended with the other ;
and both he and Mr. Durhame faid, that fo long as Wariftone and Mr.
James Guthrie did guide that partie, there could no peace be poflible.
Though the great and much talked-of errand of our meeting had evanifhed,
yet we conferred among ourfelves, and with Mr. Blair, Mr. Durhame, Traile,
Stirling, and Carftares, on other things for good purpofe. For a number of
yiears, the communion had not been celebrate in Edinburgh, Glafgow, St.
Andrewes, Dundee, etc. mofl becaufe all the Magiftrates were fo deep in
complying with the Inglifli, that they wer excludit from the table by the Act
of our Church, and long conftant practife, except they declared their re
pentance, which they would not doe, nor durfl we crave it of them : alfo
they were fo importunat to have the communion, and impatient to be longer
excluded, that they were on headie and evill defignes again/I us, if we gave
them not fatiffaction herein. The Minifters of Edinburgh inclined to admitt
them on very fmall acknowledgement. We in Glafgow were all for that,
except Mr. Durhame and myfelfe, albeit we were both much modified at that
time ; hot thefe of St. Andrewes were very averfe from their admiflion, ex
cept on conditions not to be expected from them. For this end, they had
fent us a long paper (F.); yet, after fome dayes conference, we came to agree
to admitt them on a generall teftimonie in our doctrine againft their comply-
ance, and private admonifhing of them to repent for it, laying it on their
confcience to come or not as they thought good. We thought, indeed, time
had much altered the cafe ; and I drew Mr. Blair by, and told him roundlie,
it wes verie unconcordant, not to quarrell Mr. Livingftone's and Mr. Gil-
lefpie's celebration, notwithstanding their voluntar mofl groffe and avowed
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complyance, and to controvert the admiffion of Magiflrates for compelled com-
plyance in a farre lefler degree. This flopped his mouth, and he contradicted
no more. As for prayer for the King, we fpake not much of it in public!: ; bot
in private I fand, that mofl of the companie thought it might be forborne, were
not for the proclamation to forbear it under the penaltie of lofing our llipends ;
that leaving of it now would occaiion a great fcandal. While we were in
private conferring on this, Mr. Wood overtured, that a way might be found
to fatiffie the Englifh, and keep Hill our prayer for the King. I thought this
impoflible ; and before I could learne it from him, he wes neceffitate to goe
home. Thereafter I found that Mr. James Sharp had perfuaded him and
Mr. Robert Dowglafs to goe with Monk's recommendation to the Prote6lor,
to entreat for our fpareing in this conscientious practife, and for the freedome
of our AfTemblies, on promife of peaceable behaviour. How farr the Re-
monilrators provocations put on fuch a refolution, I know not ; but no fuch
thing is yet done, and to me it's a matter of a very doubtfome nature. It's
true, all the eflates of the kingdome, yea, every particular perfone of note,
have fubmitted, and on occafion of civile rights, have acknowledged the pre-
fent power, except fome of us miniflers ; and that our protefling brethren, of
their owne accord, ever fince Worcefter, having put the King out of their
prayers, have provocked heirby the Englifh to perfecute us ; yet if all be
true what fome of us have written for this- dutie, how we fhall for any trouble
leave it, it's hard to fay. I fent yow three papers from very good hands, for
the continuance of this prac"life ; and Mr. Hutchefon wrote a fourth, which I
did not fee, better, as I heard, than all the former. For myfelfe, I never
wrote a line on that queftion, bot adhered to the thing without queflion ;
albeit what ye wrote from Voetius flumbled me, and the generall practife of
all our brethren of England and Ireland more. What we fhall doe in the
end we doe not know. This is the greatefl difficultie that flicks in our
flomacks ; albeit in mine, Mr. Dickfon's, Mr. Durhame's, Mr. Smith's, and
others, more ; in Mr. Dowglafs, Mr. Blair, Mr. Wood, and Mr. Fergufone,
and mofl of others, lefle. It's our prefent deliberation : the Lord direct us
in it. I hear the King himfelf would gladly permitt us to forbear it, and our
flocks would earneflly requefl us to the fame ; but for myfelf I know not yet
how to doe it. Mr. James Fergufone and Mr. Alexander Nifbet, by the
malevolence of fome of their neighbours, were forely perfecute, and chafed
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fome weeks from their flocks, and with very much adoe obtained fome for
bearance of the Generall. How long we (hall be fpared, we cannot tell.
I did write to fome of the minifters at London (F.) to caufe fome friends
reprefent our cafe to the Protector; but the anfwer (G.) I got did promife
little: yet (by what means I know not,) to this day the (lorme is holden
off ; whether confcience, or pitie, or fear, or diverfion by other affaires hes
helped, it's uncertaine.
When Mr. Patrick Gillefpie wes with Cromwell, he affifted and pleafured
fundrie in the matter of their fines. All the three did preach once or
twice in the chappell. Cromwell wes kinde enough to them all ; but Mr. J.
Livingftone came firfl away. Mr. P. G. and Mr. J. M. for the two Colledges
of Glafgow and Aberdeene, obtained fundry favours ; the fuperiorities of
Galloway as the Bifhop had them, and two thoufand nine hundred merks
a-year out of the cuflomes of Glafgow, for maintainance of burfars at our
own nomination, with the Toune's maintainance for the ufe of the poor who
were hurt by the burning. For this fervice the Toune gave to Mr. Patrick
a gratuitie of thirty pieces, which he took ; and haveing regrated to us his
great charge in that halfe-year, that it had exceeded two hundred and fifty
pound fterling, and all that he had receaved of Cromwell was one hundred
pound, I was content the Colledge fhould allow him ane hundred pound ;
but it wes caried by vote to three thoufand merks. His ftipend that yeare,
I think, was two thoufand merks, and his depurfements for us about (one
thing and another,) ane other thoufand merks, beiide one thoufand merks for
books to the Librarie. For all this I think he was no gainer : his journey
and way of living at London was fumptuous. Yet all this would have
been weell taken, had not the lad halfe of his gift (H.) contained ane order
to the Judges to allow no intrants any flipends but thefe who had the tefti-
monie of fo many of the Remonftrant faction, in every diocefs, as they fet
doune. There were only a few of our mind joyned, who could have carried
nothing againft the others, fo the planting of all the churches was, in effect,
devolved on that faction. The claufes in the order appointed the judges to
aflift them in the ejection of all whom they fhould declare fcandalous, as ye
may read in the order itfelfe printed by the councill. So foone as this wes
knowne, however, the Remonflrants in our bounds and in the fouth were
1, and begane to make ufe of it ; yet generally it wes cryed out upon :
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the minifters of Edinburgh preached much againft it ; the Prefbyterie of
Edinburgh and Synod of Lothian declared againft it (J.); the Synod of Fyfe
and the Merfe did the like : yea, Mr. James Guthrie wrote fharplie againft
it (K.) ; and the minifters of Edinburgh gave in to Monk a paper, to be
communicat to the Protector, as both the Synod and Prefbyterie of Edin
burgh had declared before againft it (K. 2.) And in a meeting of the
Remonftrants, Wariftone carried a vote of a teftimonie againft it : but
this wes fuppreft, for fear of dividing their partie, who in other things alfo
did not weell agree ; for fome of them were much more complying with the
Englilh than Wariftone or Mr. James Guthrie allowed. Yet Mr. Guthrie's
way became doubtfull on this much talked of occafion : —
His colleague, Mr. David Bennet, had under his hand engaged himfelf
fome more to the Affemblie of Dundie, than did agree with his former ram-
nefs, and Mr. James Guthrie's way ; though after the breaking of the land
Mr. David retracted fomewhat of this retractation, yet fo much ftuck of it as
made him not fully of Mr. James his judgment. The people did like neither
weell, but Mr. David beft of the two : thence emulation and fome contefts
in the feffion began to arife ; but Mr. David being on his death-bed, and
advyfeing to plant his place with a man peaceable, not factious, Mr. James
and the Toune fell in a ftrife about that matter immediately after his death.
Mr. James had formed the feflion to his owne mind : who oppofed his way,
were removed, on diverfe pretences ; the remainder were but few, thefe
were perfuaded to call to Mr. David Bennet's charge, one Mr. Rule from
Angus. To this election the bodie of the toune wes oppofite ; but when
Mr. James, neglecting their oppofition, went on to admitt him, the people
did tumultuoufly, with cryes, and fhouts, and ftrokes, oppofe it ; yet Mr. James
admitted the man, and caufed fummond above threefcore of the chief bur-
gefles before the Englifti Criminal Court at Edinburgh for a ryot. Being all
put to ane afiife, to the Judges open difatiffaction, they were all abfolved once
and againe. Their advocate did publictlie ferve Mr. James with very coarfe
language ; but the Judges did favour him all in their power. This all did
miflyke in Mr. James as a dangerous preparative to the whole land : however,
it made his people irreconcileable to him. The Synod of Perth mett at
Dumblane : when they were about to declare againft the violent intrusion
of Mr. Rule, Mr. Guthrie appeared with a declinature of their judicature.
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This did irritate them fo farr as they did appoint fome of their number to
goe to Stirling, and intimat his fentence of depofition by the Generall Aflem-
blie, the nullitie of Mr. Rule's admiffion to Stirling, and of Mr. Blair's to
Bothkenner, to ele6l a new feflion for calling of minifters to Stirling, and
to approve that as the Prefbyterie of Stirling from which Mr. James had
feparat. This provocked the Remonflrant partie to meet at Edinburgh,
where, what courfe of revenge they have refolved upon, I fear we (hall hear
in tyme. There is fpeaking of propofitions to be fent to Cromwell for in
verting the Church-government in their parties hands. However, Mr.
Rutherfoord wes fent to Stirling to preach againfl the Synod's proceed
ing, though Mr. Rule wes a known fornicator. There wes ane other
very enormous pradlife of our brethren: a good and able young man, Mr.
John Jamefone, being planted, almofl unanimoufly, in. the parifh of Eccles, by
the whole Prefbyterie of Dunfe, fome few of the Remonflrator fide gives a call
to Mr. Andrew Rutherfoord ; Mr. John Livingflone, with two of the Prefby
terie of Chirnfide, admitts him to his tryell in reference to that church.
The brethren of Edinburgh hearing of it, did earneflly write to Mr. John to
beware of fuch a cleare overturning of our fundamentall difcipline (L.) : yow
fee what an anfwer Mr. John returns (M.). However, they goe on with all
fpeed with the tryell ; and, with an Englifh order and guard, forces him on
the people. When the Synod were about to declare againfl this unheard-of
intrufion, Mr. John and his friends give in a flrong proteflation (N.). The
Synod declared againfl them (O) ; and they, be the Englifh force, keep out
Jamefone, and put in Rutherfoord. The Prefbyterie of Edinburgh, and St. An-
drewes, and, as I think, the Synod of Fyfe and Lothian declared againfl this
ihamefull ufurpation ( P) ; but our brethren regard little either Prefbyteries or
Synods when oppofit to their defires : that fame Synod of Lothian [it was],
which, in a well framed a6l (P 2.), opened Mr. William Colvin's mouth.
Thefe fatall divifions, which wracked England and our Kingdom firfl and lafl,
which with our eyes we have feen the only confiderable means of the mine
of thefe who are down, and ryfeing of thefe who are up, are like to put in the
hand of that unquiet faction of our brethren, or elfe into the hands of
Eraftian flatefmen, all church-jurifdidlion ; fo at once we fhall have no dif
cipline to look after, but to preach, pray, and celebrat the facraments, and
be glad to be tollerat to goe about that without controll. When Quakers
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falls a-raileing on all the miniflrie, in the face of our congregations, on the
Sabbath-day, they are not puniihed at all ; nor, for ought I know, is there
any church difcipline at all to this day any where in England. The minifters
there, are herein fo heartlefs and difcouraged, that they dare fpeak nothing
which may be interpreted to give the lead offence. I marvelled, that when
I fent my anfwer to Cotton and Tombes, to Mr. Calamie for his Imprimatur,
yea, a Dedicatorie epiftle (Q.),7 he wes fo feeble-minded as to refufe both
my Dedication, and his owne Imprimatur ; yea, with difficultie could I gett
his Imprimatur to my verie Catechife : A ftrange change of tymes, and
great feeblenefs of men !
Concerning our Colledge-affaires, this year we had nothing but quietnefs ;
for I have given over to ftirr more in vaine, abfenting myfelf from what I
lyke not, and the reft are all of one piece. At the beginning of the year,
when Mr. Robert Makquard, being unable to deal more with his charge, had
dimitted, I made the Toune-Councell deall yet againe for Mr. John Glen
with Mr. Patrick ; but he would not hear of him, but brought one from St.
Andrewes, a pedagogue, Mr. George Sinclaire,8 and admitted him without
all competition. The young man Mr. James Wood recommended to me
as peaceable and well-conditioned, which I have found him, but inferior farr
to Mr. John Glen in all parts of fcholar-craft : through ficknefs the laft part
of the year he could not wait on his clafle : our fchollars were few, the
laureation private, and try ells fuperficiarie. I got leave to bring all the
fchollars twice a-week to my Hebrew leflbns, and difcourfes on the Catechife ;
whereof I was very glad, for divinitie ftudents we have very few. To thefe
I dyted, twyfe a-week all the year, my chronologick queftions. Mr. John
Young difcourfed and dyted enough after to them, in fundrie fubjects whereof
I took no notice. Mr. Patrick, before (he end of the year, dyted two or
three hours fomething on the firft of Ezechiel ; but his maine talk was, that
which he goes about very weell, the building of a very fair houfe, on Mr.
Zacharie Boyd's legacie : this he does fo that no man can do it better ; but
the cheapnefs of vi&uall makes our rent fo fmall, and our prodigalitie is fo
great, that we are like to fall in the common difeafe of great fcarcitie of
7 The copy of this Epistle, and most of the articles mentioned in this letter, are not con
tained in the MS. volume of Baillie's papers.
8 The author of various works, but best known by his " Satan's Invisible World Discovered,"
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moneys. I was lyke to have had a particular fafhrie, whereof yet I am not
free : our Bibliothecarie's place was but ane honorarie attendance, without
more charge ; the benefite of it is, the dyet with the Regents, a good cham
ber, and fome twelve pieces a-year. This I had defigned for a fon of John
Barnes, who lived with his brother a minifter of England : the Toune-
Councell prefented to one part of the provifion, Mr. David Dick to ane
other, and the Colledge to the reft ; I thought the Proved, (James Bell, the
youth's uncle,) would carrie the Toune- Councell, and Mr. Patrick Gillefpie
alfo, for the Colledge, the Proved being very great with him ; for Mr.
David Dickfon I undertook for him. Of all this I fent word to the boy in
England. While fecretly I had gone this farr, my fon, Mr. Robert, falls in
love with the place. I a while diffuaded him from all thoughts of it, yet at
laft he perfuaded me to be of his mind, if fo I could be fairly difengaged
with Mr. George Barnes : This Providence did for me, for the young man's
friends fand it not expedient he fliould leave England, and fo thanked me
for my kindnefs. Being freed of this voluntare impediment, I told Mr. Pa
trick Gillefpie the cafe, fhewing him, that though I wes fure to carry the
Toune and Mr. Dickfon's presentation, yet I would neither feek, nor accept
them, unlefs he were content of my boy to that charge. He defyred to
fpeak with the boy, and finding him difcreet enough, and as fit as any other,
he told me he would be for it. To ingage him farder, at his defyre, I left
the fpeaking of the Toune and Regents to him, and did open my mouth to
none of them ; but behold, when I was fecure, and had no more doubt of
the thing, after a moneth he calls me, and mews me, that the Regents and
others had been at him, heavilie regrating, and rebuking him for ingage-
ment to my fon in that place ; yea, that Mr. Robert Hodges had, befides
his knowledge, obtained a prefentation from the Toune-Councell. This un
expected newes famed me ; yet I told him the firft motion had come from
the boy, and' not myfelf ; that if I had not left the management of it to him,
I could eafilie have helped all, and yet I would aflay it, if he knew no im
pediment in my boy himfelf. He affured, that none had made any exception
againft him but that he needed it not. I mew him that exception was of
ignorance, if not malice ; for the place in queftion was not like thefe of Pro-
feflburs and Regents, which required much abilitie of gifts ; nor of our Bur-
fars, either of Divinitie or Philofophie, whofe foundation required povertie ;
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but that was of a third nature. He acknowledged it was fo ; yet he knew
not what to fay to obloquie. I told him the jullice of our proceeding
would quiet that quicklie ; only I would try if I could reduce the prefen-
tation, which was obtained by furprize from the Toune-Councell. This I
quicklie and eafilie got done, and a prefentation from them, and Mr. D. D.,
to my fon with great cheerfullnefs. When I fpoke to the Rector, Dean of
Facultie, and Regents, all affured me, at the firll word, of their great willing-
nefs to concurre with me. When I had brought the prefentation to Mr.
Patrick, and the report of the favour of all who had intereft, he mewed his
good content ; yet all this half-year has he fhifted to conclude it. If in the
end he mould elude me, I (hould take it for an egregious injurie ; but would
put it up with the reft in lilence ; but I doe not expect it. The great ob
loquie was all from my good friends, John Graham, and fpeciallie Mr. John
Spreule, who ftirred up Mr. Hodges to feek that prefentation, when he did
not mind of it, having ane other place of the Colledge that might ferve him.
For my familie, the Lord keeps all my children in health and welfare as
ever, and my mind at peace, blefTed be his name ! and affifts me in all I
have to doe, as I would wifti. For mariage, I dare not yet meddle with it,
till I fee what the Lord will do, with my great hazard, about that which they
may expone, if they pleafe, in me and others, high treafon, praying for the
King. If in this I were fecure, it's like I would follow your example in a
fecond mariage, albeit I know not yet the partie ; but I truft in this the
Lord will be mercifull to me.
Concerning our Commonwealth, how it is conceived here, I give yow this
account. The rifeing of the Highlands has proven, as the moil of wife men
ever expected, hurtfull to us. The countrey was much oppreffed by it ; the
King's partie much weakened ; the Englim embittered the more againft us ;
and their inward diviiions and factions holden in fo long as that partie ftood
coniiderable. It did grow indeed to a greater height than any could have
imagined ; yet the Holland peace, and the King's full difappointment abroad,
with their owne foolifh pride and divifions, brought them to nothing, and
made them capitulate one after another, till at laft all are come in. John
Grahame of Duchray is the laft, who indeed was among the moft honed,
flout, and wife men of them all. The Englifh gave tolerable termes to them
all ; and by this wifdome has gotten them all quiet. Glencairne ledd the
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way to the reft, as of going out, fo of coming in ; for which much blame
lyes on him. Athole's friends brought him off with the firft ; Seaforth alfo
became wife in tyme. Lome's difference with his Father keeped him longer
out ; yet he alfo at lad was perfuaded to come in, albeit he and his father are
not lyke to be good friends. His Father, lead he give any occafion to the
Englilh to fufpect his collufion with his fon, keeps the greater diftance from
him, albeit the mofl think the domeftick divifions among them are fo real and
true as makes both their lives bitter and uncomfortable to them ; and the
great burthen of debt puts their verie houfe in a hazard to ruine, if the Eng-
lifh be no more kind to them than they have been, or it feems they will
be. The father fought a garifone to lye in Argyle, to keep it from his fon's
violence ; hot when it was on the way, he repented, and gott a new order
for their returne : yet they would [goe] on ; yea, took up his owne bed
houfe of Inneraray, made the kirk and fchooll their ftables, and hardlie at
this very time have been gotten removed. The people's great hatred lyes
on him above any one man, and whatever befalls him, few does pitie it :
at this very time his {late is very daggering. The Chancellour gott better
conditions in his capitulation than any did expect, albeit his debts and
infamie lye very heavie upon him.
For the tyme, all Scotland is exceeding quiet, but in a very uncomfortable
condition ; very many of the Noblemen and gentlemen, what with imprifon-
ments, baniftiments, forfaulters, fynes, as yet continueing without any re-
leafement, and private debts from their former troubles, are wracked or
going to wrack. The commonalitie and others are opprefied with maintain-
ance to the Englifli armie. Strange want of money upon want of trade, for
our towns have no confiderable trade ; and what is, the Englifh has pofleff-
ed it. The victuall is extraordinarie cheap, in God's mercie, but judgment
to many. Want of judice, for we have no Barrori- Courts ; our flieriffs have
little (kill, for common being Englifli fojours ; our Lords of Sefiion, a few
Englifh, unexperienced with our law, and who, this twelve moneth, hes done
little or nought : great is our fuffering through want of that Court. After
long neglect of us as no nation, at lad a fuprerne Councell of State, with
power in all things, is come doune, of fix or feven Englifh fojours and two of
our complying gentlemen, Colonell Lockhart and Colonell Swinton. We
expect little good from them ; but if ane heavie excife, as is faid, be added
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to our rnaintainance, and the paying of all the garifons lye on us, our condi
tion will be infupportable ; yet be what it will, it mufl be borne, we have
deferred it. But we hope the Lord will look doune on the affliction of the
unjuftlie afflicted by men.
The other year, when the good Parliament fatt doune, we were in great
fear. Their firfl declarations were fo pious, but to me fo full of the Anabap-
tiitick ilraine, that I was afraid of them. They were elected abfolutlie by
the officers of the armie, and the minifters of their caball, fullie according
to the mind of the Sectarian partie ; but they were no fooner fet, than they
flew fo high, as to mind nothing but a Fifth Monarchic on earth, to over
throw all magiftracie and miniflrie as it flood, and put all in a new mule of their
owne, wherein publicklie fome fomented them for their owne wifer delignes.
However, they were far on in overturning all remaining foundations of
Church and State. The Generall, with fome of his confident friends of the
army, diffolved them by force, lead they mould have overwhelmed him, them-
felffes, and all, in their new Babell, and took on himfelf the new office of Pro-
tectour, with a power, to him and his councell-fupreme, beyond, as it feemed
to many, the regall line ; yet neceflarie for the tyme, and quietlie acquiefced
in without contradiction. To mollifie it a Parliament was called, after the old
way, but of men ingadgeing to the new way of government : they went
from Scotland threttie, and from Ireland alfe many. Ours and their choices
were men who, for peace, were refolved to doe or fay any thing they fand
tollerable to their owne large mind, and, I think, were all fo complying
with the Protectour as he would have wiftied : yet many of the chiefe in this
meeting were fo unfatiffied with one above a Parliament, (a true and high
royaltie as they conceaved,) that at their very firft doun-fitting they fet them-
felves to overturne this new building, for their love of their too much-fancied
republick, in a free and abfolutely fupreame parliament: Ane unhappie
dreame ! unfitt for the government of the people of this ifle at any time, and
mod as now difpofed. The Protectour finding it fo, made no fcruple to dif-
cipline them, and, without more adoe, to purge the Houfe prefently of all who,
under their hand, did not ingage againe to preferve the modell of government
appointed by the Protectour and his friends. When many of the mod flurring
heads, by the refuifeall of this engagement, were put out of the Houfe, it was
expected, that the reft would have fo fully complyed as they had written with
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their hand ; yet for what caufes we know not, the Protectour found them
alfo fo undermining of his government, that he thought it fitt to diflblve
them. Hence all filled with new difcontents : but the Protedour had fo farr,
with his witt and diligence, provided for all, that there was no confider-
able fturr. Lambert and the chiefe of the army were, by hopes, made fo faft,
that they concurred chearfully in all things. Lieut.-Colonell Lilburne, a
mod turbulent man, whom I thought no force or {kill would ever have
gotten quiet, was fo cunningly conveyed to Jerfey, and there fo ftrickly
keeped, that there hes been nothing more heard of him than he had been
dead. Captain Joyce was put in the fame condition. Generall-Majors
Harrifons and Overtoun, with fundrie other officers of the armie, both in
Scotland and England, are clofe prifoners, for defignes to turne the armie
againft the Prote&our. A number of the Royall partie arifeing, in a very
confufed imprudent way, in many (hires, were all eafily fcattered, and the
chiefe of them made faft, and fundry execute for their confpiring ; albeit in
what, and how fair, we know it not. We were glad that no Scotfman was
found acceflbrie to any of thefe defignes : it feems our people were fo ill-
burnt, that they had no ftomach for any farder medling ; only Crauford, Lau-
derdaill, and David Leflie, when the Tower was filled with new prifoners, were
fent to farder and worfe prifons, for no new fault that we hear tell of.
Thefe fturrs make the Protector more vigilant. The fall out of his coach,
and the attempts more than once for his life, by Gerard the taylor, and
others, (hews the violence of fome fpirits. The raifeing of all the three laft
Parliaments ; the fpeaking of a Croune, and title of a King or Emperour,
which fome thinks is not vaine ; the putting of Ireland under the govern
ment of his fon Henrie ; and Scotland under a Councell onlie of fome fix or
feven officers of the armie, and chiefly of his neece's Robina Sender's huf-
band,9 the young Laird of Lee, made great malecontentment in the heart of
the moft. To help this, all poflible courfes are taken to fatiffie England ;
but Scotland is not worth the minding : in England, fixty thoufand pound
fterling a moneth, the halfe of the maintainance is diminifhed ; but we fear
the new excife mall double our maintainance. Albeit the rifeing in England
9 Robina, daughter of one of Cromwell's aunts, whose husband's name was Sheuster, or
Sewster, was married, 20th February 1654, to Col. afterwards Sir William Lockhart of Lee.
—(Analecta Scotica, vol. ii. p.' 203.)
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feems to have been great, yet few have fuffered, and we hear of few forfault-
ers or fynes there ; but many of our nation are fent to the plantations ; our
fynes are many and great, and our grievances much neglected.
For fatiffieing of the people of England, the two great navies, the one, on
the coafls of Africk, Italie, and Spaine, under Blake ; the other, in the Weft
Indies, under Penn, did ferve much for a tyme : for it wes thought at firft,
that the navie under Blake, for to affift the Spanifh againft the French, invad
ing by fea, both Naples and Catalonia, befide the fecureing of the mips and
cannon, mould have had aflured from the Spanim for pay two hundred
thoufand pound fterling ; and thereafter, that their defigne was to free all
the Englifh captives at Tunes, Alger, and Saly, and to intercept the Spanim
plate at Gales. Alfo that Penn's great armie of twelve thoufand men had
been, not only to have taken St. Domingo in Hifpaniola, but alfo Mexico in
New Spaine. Thefe high and advantageous defignes did much pleafe the
fpirits of the vulgare ; but now mifcontentments are feared, even on that
ground alfo, to arife, that fo hudge expence hes been laid on the people for
fruitlefs defignes ; and that in their farr voyages, many lives have been loft
for no purpofe. Since this tyme Blake hes lived on the Englifti charge : the
Spanifh hes born no expence. The burning of the Turkilh mips at Tunes
is faid to have provocked the Turks at Conftantinople, and elfewhere, to
robb many Englifh of life and goods ; that none of the Spanim fleet is yet
gotten, and if medled with, it were a breach with Spaine, which were a be
ginning of a needlefs warr at ane unfeafonable tyme ; that Penn's great navie
and armie hes done no fervice at all, but in Hifpaniola hes gotten a great
affront. — Thefe things from the Diurnals : the mifcontent Royalifts blaze
farr ; bot the Protectour is wife enough to fee to all thefe murmurings
of fillie people : in quieting of malecontents he hes a ftrange both dex-
teritie and {kill.
For Church matters, there is no ecclefiaftick government at all we can
hear of ; yet the hand of power is not heavie on any for matters of religion,
no not on Quakers, who are open raillers againft the Protectour's perfon ;
yea, we hear of little trouble of Papifts, who grow much in the North of
Scotland, more than thefe eighty years, without any controll. We expect
our Councell of State will fee to it.
For things abroad, they are thus reprefented to us : that the French totallie
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negleft our King, the Cardinall being unwilling in the King's minoritie to
undertake a warre with England, for the marring of the great advancement
of the French intereft againft their cheef enemies, the Spanifti and Auftrian ;
that for this end they paflTe by the daily taking of numbers of their (hips ;
the defeat of the royall navie in its way to Dunkirk, whereupon alone fol
lowed the lofle of Dunkirk ; the taking from them the plantations of Canada,
and St. Chriftophers, and others ; that all this, the French diflembles, and feeks
the Englifli friendftrip, till they have done their buffinefs elfewhere, as daily
they make fo good progrefie ; that Conty takes in towne after towne in Cata
lonia, which is interpret the great weaknefs of Spaine, that is not able in
Spaine itfelf to crufti a little French armie ; in Italic alfo, the Spanfh in
Millaine is put hard to it, when the French, with all the power of Savoy and
Modena, and the neutralise of the Venetian, Pope, Florence, and Genoa,
deals with him. Only it's marvelled what follie moved the French, in their
pafTage through Savoy, to fall on the quiet Proteftants of the vaillies. If
this maflacre be the half of the thing it's called, it were enough, not only be
fore God, but with men, to marr the full carreer of the French viclorie. But
many here do fufpec~l the matter not to be fo great ; not fo much becaufe the
French King, and Pope, and Savoyart, difclaimes it as none of their deeds ;
but becaufe fo manie diurnals does fo much infift upon it, and fo much noife
is made of it here, the Royalifts fay, that of this blood of the faints this poli
tick ufe is made, to make people fee the happinefs of our prefent govern
ment, wherein we live in peace, free from the crueltie of Papifts ; and if
Charles Stuart came here, the people had caufe to fear, from him and his
mother, thefe uncredible murders, which the Proteftants of Savoy find from
the Duke, the King's coufin-german, by the advyce of his mother, the
Queen's true fifter. But we fear too much of this perfecution be true, let
any exaggerate and abufe it to what end they think fitt. But the terrible
progrefle of the French, and moil to our prejudice, is in Flanders, where the
Englifti junction with Spaine, if in tyme, might eafily have flopped them ;
but if to the conquiefe of Loraine and Halfatia, they add Flanders, and get
of the Spanifli the Low Countreys, their neighbourhood, both to England and
Holland, will be more formidable than ever Spain's was : and whatever progrefs
the French make this year againft the Spanifh, many imputes it to the En
glifti, who have hindered the SpaniQi filver-fleet to come home, whereby the
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Spanifh hes been difabled to keep the fields againft the French any where,
let be in Flanders againft the King in perfone, with the great royall armie.
We think here it's good for yow that the Swedes are gone to Pole ; for
had the vulgar reports and your late fears being grounded, that this hudge
armie and their confederate Brandeburgh, with the confent of the French,
been againft yow for your ufurpations on the Dutchy of Gulick Cleive, the
oppreffion of the Orange fainilie, and what other quarrells willing men
would not have wanted ; we thought your States in as great hazard to have
loft their verie libertie, notwithftanding of all the help the Englifh could have
made them, as they had been under thefe fourty years : and whatever evill
had come on them, their late carriages to all their neighbours would have
made many not at all to have pitied them ; but for myfelf, my prayers to
God was, and fhall be, for the prefervation of fo noble a member of the Re
formed Church, which feemed to be in a clear hazard of ruine. If the
Swedes be gone to Pole, in this height of the Polonian calamitie, when the
Mufcovites and Cofacks and their own divifions have fo lamentablie wracked
them, to accomplifh their miferie, and prey on that kingdome, without any
new caufe fince their laft peace, they will not have the bleffing of many
Chriftians to go along with them. For albeit that proud kingdome of Pole,
for their grofle poperie and other foule herefies and (hamefull avowed in-
ceftuous marriages of their two laft Kings agreed to by their States, be highly
finfull, yet they were a good barr for Chriftendome on that fide againft the
Turks and Tarters incroachments ; and if they be ruined, a great gap will be
opened for thefe Scythian barbarians to fall on us all. Many here did think
the Swedifh defigne had been for Germanic, albeit we knew no particular
quarrell ; yet that which we fee this day, and know ever hes been the
greateft quarrell among States and Princes, ambition and appearance of ad
vantage was evident enough. The Swedes being mafter of fo great and
well provided ane armie of their owne, both by fea and land, and having fo
great alliances in Germanie, and intereft by their new conqueft ; the Empe-
rour being fo weak, ficklie, and near death ; his fon fo young and unfitt for
government ; the Croune of Hungary being fo long denyed, the Hungarian
divifions being fo great, and the Tranfylvanian fo powerfull, wife and famous
a Prince ; the Elector of Saxony being fo oft beat by the Swedes, and the
Bavarian yet being little above a child ; the houfe of Palatine, Brandeburgh,
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Hefle, and Brunfwick fo nearly at this tyme related to the King of Sweden ;
Spaine and Pole utterlie unable for to aflid the Emperour, and France fo
willing to joyne his forces for the ruine of the Auflrian familie ; thefe
things made many here believe it was the Empire the Swedifti did now aime
at, only we think it a fingular example of fecrecie, that to this day, even
after beginning to march, their counfells are fo hid, that it is not knowne
whither they are going.
We are glad the Lord hes fo long enabled the Venetians, alone deditute
of all help, to keep up the Turks from Crete. It feemes the inward difeafes
of that empire mud be great, that difables them fo as to be beat, year after
year, both by fea and land, by the Venetian only. How comes it that we
are fo ignorant of the Turkifh affaires, when the State of China, and the
outmofl Tartars, is fo well known. I wifh yow fent us that Atlas of China,
which latelie that Flemifh pried did print at Amfterdam. The vanquishing
of the great kingdome of China by the unhappie Tartarians, is a mod great
and remarkable occurrence as hes been in the world for many ages. O, that
all thefe things of the Earth were for the advancement of Chrid's Kingdome,
and of making fouls to be faved, which now fo evidently perifh ! It is for
this end chiefly that I ever took notice of the motions of States and Princes,
to fee if any beginning did appear of performing the Lord's great promifes ;
the coming in of the Jewes, the abolifhing of Antichrid, and reforming of the
Roman church, the bringing of Mahometan and Pagane princes to the faith
of Chrid. While nothing of all this does yet appear, my heart is oft grieved,
and prayes the Lord to arife to glorify his Sone, and comfort believers.
The great declining of Spaine, without a fone, and but ane old daughter,
and weaknefs of the Audrian family, made me once hope that the tyme wes
near when thefe bloudie and great fupporters of Antichrid mould fall : but
the Lord is wife, and knows what he is doing.
POSTSCRIPT. DECEMBER IST 1655.
WHILE, for lack of a bearer, this lyes long befide me, my fone Harie,
to my joy, comes fave home. Not only by your letters, but by himfelf more,
I fee the lingular care ye have had of him as I could have expected or
wifhed. I will not in words exprefs the fenfe of this kindnefs, efpecially in
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that your wife and ferious dealing with him to returne to his book, it hes
prevailed, and he is again as diligent a ftudent as ever, without any inclina
tion to merchandife, for which I thank God and yow. I think his being
with yow well worth all the tyme, labour, and charge he hes fpent on it.
The fix pounds fterling he borrowed from Mr. Winch at London, I have
caufed pay, and received Mr. Winch's difcharge of it. The reft of his ac
count to yow mail be anfuered with the firft opportunity. In your care of
Dr. Strang's book, yow mew your friendmip both to the dead and living : I
iam glad it is in Elzevir's hand ; caufe hafte it fo much as may be. I find
this fault in the meet yow fent me, that the marginall index is confounded
with all notes or citations which were any wayes on the margine, without any
diftinction of place, character, or diftance. It is not tyme now to get this
helped. I hope it is near ane end.
While Mr. Wood, Rector of the Univerfitie of St. Andrewes, had oft to
doe with Generall Monk for the Univerfitie, and alwayes gotten civile hear
ing, it was thought fitt, that Mr. Dowglafs and he mould reprefent to the
Generall the manifold and increafing grievances of the Church ; which they
did in this paper, (R. 1.). The Generall profefled himfelf willing, but unable to
remeed them ; only undertook to fend them to the Protector ; with whom
yet they fleep, together with their reprefentation againft Mr. Gillefpie's
charter, as they call it. The Generall oft fpoke anent prayer for the King.
Mr. Dowglafs, and others, mew their utter unwillingnefs to quite it fo long as
the Proclamation flood ; and when the Sheriff was fet to trouble them, had
he not given over his begun procefs, they had prepared proteftations. The
Generall declared his unabilitie to take off the Proclamation for the tyme ;
bot hoped the new Councell, when it came doune, mould doe it. At their
coming, the Prefident Broghill, having a good imprefiion from his fifter-in-law,
the Ladie Clotworthie, of Mr. Dowglafs and Mr. Dickfon, dealt kindlie with
them ; and underftanding their ftick at the Proclamation, albeit with fome
difficultie, got the Councell to take it off, (R. 2.) ; mewing withall to the
minifters the ftrictnefs of his inftructions againft all who continued publicklie
naming of the King. After much deliberation, they thought fitt to give it
over. They once purpofed a declaration, and a paper for removeall of ob-.
jections ; but forefeeing the offence from thefe writes would have been equall
to the continuance of their practice, they abftained, and only drew this paper,
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which they fent to me, and no other, (S. 1.) : Mr. Wood's larger anfwer to
objections I have not yet gotten, (S. 2.). The example of thefe in Edin
burgh is like to be followed by all : fome yet (lick. Our Remonftrants did
grieve and mock at this change. Some of our people, from whom we did
not expect it, were offended ; hot above all, Generall Monk was irritat againft
us, as if we had yielded to Broghill what we denyed to him : and from that
day, in all occafions, befriended openlie the Remonftrants, to our prejudice,
as men to be trufted beyond us, their principles being oppofite to the intereft
of their enemie Charles Stewart, whom we did affe6l ftill, notwithftanding
of our filence in our public!; prayers. Mr. Traile, who converfed much with
him, write in the time of our lad Synod a long letter to Mr. P. G[illefpie,]
which he read publicise to a grand committee of his mind, as if we had
uttered to the Generall and Prefident very many calumnies againft them,
efpeciallie their averfenefs from all peace with us their brethren. On
occafion thereafter, both the Prefident and Generall, to their owne faces,
witnefled our innocencie ; affirming, that in all our fpeeches to them, we
had never fpoken one word to their prejudice. However, the Remon-
ffrators of our Synod, ftirred up by Mr. Traile's calumnious letter, fent Mr.
P. G[illefpie] and others to clear them of our imputations, and to defyre,
that the minifters of Edinburgh might call a meeting for Union, if poffible ;
or, if no, that it might be feen by whofe fault the difcord continued. The
meeting was called, and keeped, November 8th, by a number of both fydes
from all the parts of the Kingdome. It was not long before it was clear
who were the men who made the Union defperat, except on conditions intol-
lerable. Our meetings appointed nine of every fyde to conferr. Theirs
were Wariftoune, Sir John Cheiflie, Colonell Ker, Mr. S. Rutherfoord, Mr.
James Guthrie, Mr. P. G[illefpie,] Mr. James Naefmith, Mr. Robert Traile,
Mr. Gabriell Maxwell : Ours were Mr. Robert Dowglafs, Mr. D. Dickfon,
Mr. James Wood, Mr. Robert Ker, Mr. James Fergufone, Mr. Robert
Young, Mr. Hew Mackell, Mr. John Smith, and I. Mr. Robert Blair and
Mr. James Durhame appeared as mid-men ; albeit of our judgement for
the main, and in the whole debate, grieved with the other. Their papers
were all framed by Mr. James Guthrie's hand, of my Lord Wariftoune's
materialls. The firft was this, (T.) : It to us was fo high and abfurd, that
we could fcarcelie believe our own apprebenfions of it, and refolved, by
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queries, to try their pofitive mind anent it. I drew this paraphrafe on it, (V.),
and Mr. James Fergufone ane other ; out of which Mr. Wood drew this
third, which we gave them to anfwer, (X.) To be even with us, they,
November 13th, gave us Querees on our overture, the firft of June, (Y.) ; and
withall, ane anfwer to our Querees, (Z.). Having pondered thefe, we re
turned ane anfwer to their Querees, (A. A.), and our fenfeof their overture,
(B. B.). Our conceffions were fo many and great, that Mr. Patrick Gil-
lefpie, Mr. John Carftares, and others of their meeting, not Mr. Durhame
and Mr. Blair only, feemed fullie fatiffied therewith, and we began to hope
for a concord. But Wariftoune and Mr. Guthrie did carrie it fo in their
meeting over Mr. P. G[illefpie,] that this verie captious paper was given
in to us, (C. C.) ; which Mr. P. Gpllefpie] denyed openlie to be the fenfe
of their meeting, and Mr. G[uthrie] affirmed it was ; and hardly by diftinc-
tions could they be brought, even in our meeting, to agree among themfelves
about that paper. However, we agreed to give it a foft unreflecting anfwer,
though much provocked, (D. D.) ; yea, to gaine them, we gave in this re-
prefentation alfo. At laft they gave us their clear and finall fenfe, (E. E.) ;
with which Mr. Gillefpie refuifed to joyne, but deferted their meeting. Mr.
Wood was here called from us to fee his father die ; but we gave them this
laft paper, of Mr. James Fergufone's hand, (F. F.); and foe, after twenty-three
dayes ftay, we clofed the meeting. We heard in the midft of our confer
ence, they had voted the fetting up of twenty-four miniflers and fix elders,
twenty-nine of all, even their part of the Commiffion of the AfTemblie [16] 50,
with abfolute power of a full jurifdi6lion over the whole Kirk of Scotland,
on fuppolition we mould not agree to their defires ; and had lykewayes
agreed on ane fupplication to the Councell for affiftance to that their moft
prefumptuous and unreafonable committee which ever our Church did fee.
At our Synod of Glafgow, where this conference for union was hatched,
there was other two dangerous motions. Wariflone and Mr. James Guthrie
had fallen on a new conceit, to put all the godly in the land, of their faction,
under the band of a new Covenant, which Mr. Guthrie hae drawn e in fome
meets of paper, from which he had cut off all the articles of our former Cove
nants which concerned the King, Parliament, or liberties of the land, or
mutuall defence. At this motion the Councell was highlie offended, and
fpoke threatening words of Wariftoune and Mr. James Guthrie for this
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attempt : yet after their apologie, were fo well pleafed, that the Generall
gave Wariftoune a vifit in his houfe, which I know not if he hath yet
done to any other of the nation ; and Mr. Guthrie has that familiaritie with
him, that when both are in toune, he fends his mind to him in clofed
epiftles, which I doubt if any other of the nation has yet made bold to doe.
In their meeting at Edinburgh, January firft, they proponed this Covenant.
The Englifh agents, Mr. Gillefpie, and Mr. Leviftoune, difputed againft it in
vaine. Mr. Gillefpie, fo foon as he went weft, called a meeting at Kilmar-
nock to crufh it if he could. Wariftoune hearing of his defigne, fent S[ir]
J[ohn] Cheiflie to keep that meeting, where there were bitter and reflecting
debates betwixt S[ir] J[ohn] and Mr. P[atrick] ; yet Mr. P. carried it over
S[ir] J[ohn,] that all Ihould declare their mind anent the Covenant ; where
all, except four or five of little weight, diflented, yet fo that they mould
enquire the fenfe of the godly of the bounds anent it, and report at the next
Synod. S[ir] J[ohn,] in this foyled, prevailed againft Mr. P[atrick] in ane other
vote of their mind, for creeling of the Commiffion [16]50 for purgeing the
Kirk. Thefe interfeirings put us in hope that faction would divide among
themfelves. At Glafgow, the report was, that all the godlie in thefe parts
miflyked the motion of the Covenant; however, the godlie in Fyfe and
Lothian were faid to lyke it ; yet, on the Weft's miflyke, the motion for the
tyme was laid afide. But behold, from fome of the fefiions of Glafgow it
was moved, that the ordinance for teftifieing, notwithftanding of all the
contradiction had been made to it, feemed very innocent and exceeding
good to be practifed. To this Sir John oppofed, and Mr. Patrick avowed
he knew nought of the motion ; but fo foon as he went to Edinburgh to
feek a conference for union, the Prefident and other counfellers, of their
owne proper motion altogether, without his knowledge, as he affirmes, re-
folved to proclame his ordinance, and did it after his departure ; but after
his preaching to the Councell, and keeping of their kirk the whole Sabbath,
and going with the Prefident in his coach to dinner, thefe things made us
not at all to underftand Mr. Gillefpie' s meaning ; yet this was vifible, as
Mr. Guthrie wrote (harpelie againft his ordinance, fo he oppofed his Cove
nant and commiflion, and looked towards an union with us ; but for what
end many did much doubt. A little more tyme will clear more myfteries. Yow
will perceave in the papers, as is evident in the conference, that our Re-
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monflrants fixt refolution is, 1. Not to reft content with an oblivion of what
is paft, of enjoying their own judgement in peace, and taking off their
cenfures ; but will have us confent to their libertie of profecuting their Protefta-
tions in pofterior Generall Affemblies, not only for condemning of the Publick
Refolutions, (which we in confcience judge neceffar truths, the grounds of our
apologie to forraigne Churches, and the world, for our innocencie in all thefe
fearfull fcandalls which our brethren's tenets and practifes hes occafioned to
be caft upon the face of our Church and Nation), but alfo for condemning the
laft two Generall Affemblies, as null in their veryconftitution, which to us were
in their grave to burie all Generall Affemblies for ever, which for constitution
cannot be morelawfull than thefe two. 2. That whatever neceflitie we may have
of a Generall Affemblie, or whatever defyre we may have of one, or libertie
from the Englifh to get it ; yet we muft never have it till they be willing to
joyne with us to feek it in their termes. 3. That as peace with them may
not be had, except during the paucitie of their partie, compared with the
multitude of their oppofites in the generalitie of the Prefbyteries and Synods,
(for fundry whole Synods will not have anie one of them, as Angus, Murray,
Argyle, and I think fundrie others ; diverfe Synods hes hot very few of tnem ;
as Fife hot feven, whereof two only considerable ; Perth at moft fourteen,
whereof bot one confiderable ; Lothian, if ye except them of Lithgow and
Biggar, but three), the whole Synods and Prefbyteries of the kingdome will
be content to furceafe from their jurifdiction, and devolve it on a committee
for the bounds of every Synod, of the number whereof they mall make the
equall half, to judge and determine all matters of planting and purgeing, and
whatever falls to be controverted, whofe a6ts the Synods mail have no power
to ranverfe without the previous advyce of a generall confultatorie committee
out of all the Synods, whereof alfo the equall half mall be of their judge
ment, and nominat by them. When we in the Synod of Glafgow defyred
fomething lyke this in a far other cafe, we being the right conftitute Synod,
and they a fchifmatick faction, we, near the half, we juftly fearing their un-
juft violence, and more diffimilitudes apparent in our cafe, from this of their
demand for the whole land, yet they paflionately cryed downe our motion,
and rather choiced to reject all peace with us than to hear of any fuch over
ture. 4. All plantations moft be taken from the congregations and feffions,
to be put in the hand of a few whom they count the godlie partie \ for they
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avow that the pluralitie of all congregations in the land are fo ignorant and
fcandalous or ungracious, that they are to be excluded from the communion
and voice in choifeing of a minifter. By this devyce they hope quickly
to fill all vacant places with intrants of their faction, as they are carefull to doe
wherever they have any power to doe it. 5. Though we (hould yield to
them all their defyres, yet doe they exprefllie deny to us that which we count
the offence of Prelbyteriall fubordination, a fubmiffion to the fentence of our
Judicatures for tyme to come. They feem to be for the thing in generall,
but not for a fubmiffion to our Judicatures in their prefent corrupt conftitution
of fo many unfitt members. In this cafe of the Church they plead for a li-
bertie both of judgement and practife, both to diffent and contradict the fen-
tences of the beft Synods of Scotland, fuch as Lothian and Fife, in any plant
ing or purgeing that is contrare to their mind. And a fixth now they are
come to, a few of them to name fome twenty-nine of their faction which were
of the Commiffion [16] 50, to be a fettled judicature, with abfolute jurifdiction
over the whole Church, ever while they think tyme to call a Generall
Affemblie. This to us is worfe than Mr. Gillefpie's ordinance, which they
fo much cry doune, for it was alone for ftipends in order to planting ; but
this is ane ufurpation of the whole immediat jurifdiction ; worfe than Inde-
pendencie, that incroaches not on others, but exempts only their owne adhe
rents from others jurisdiction ; worfe than Epifcopacie, that never made fuch
havock, and fo caufeleflie, of all Prefbyteries and Synods at once. The
event, is feared, will be the forfaulter of all our ecclefiaftick liberties, in tak
ing of them out of both our hands, to be depofited in an Eraftian State-com
mittee, till our Remonilrators think fitt to joyne with us ; whereof I have no
hopes as things now goe in the land. Near two year agoe I drew up the
flate of the queftions they had then ftarted : from this and my former
letter yow fee what they have added, and it's not unlyke, as error is very
fertile, they will not fland at all they have declared, but lies a farder race
to runne; however, I fend yow herewith that paper alfo, (G G.), as ane
evidence of my care to difcharge that part of my fpeciall office, to attend
to the doctrine, and obferve the corrupters of it, and their corruptions,
the great caufe hes put me on mofl of my labours thefe years bygone.
For matters of State, at home and abroad, we meddle not at all with them ;
only we obferve the footfteps of Divine Providence as they offer them-
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felves to the eyes of all beholders. Generall Blake's navie hes coil a vaft
charge, without any profite. The expedition of Hifpaniola, as I read it in
a London defcription, is full of lhame and lofle, both of charges and men,
hes drawn on ane open warr with Spain, which will hurt our trade. Our
emptie coffers will not be furnifhed with all the ordinarie incomes, though
great, and much greater than before ; nor by this new preflbur of the cavi-
leers, the feparating of them from others, even thefe againft whom no new
tranfgreffion is alleadged, only for the holding doune, as is profefied, the
great and refllefs faction of the Royalifls, we fear doe more harme than
good, albeit Lilly's prognoftick we count meerly knavilh. We are grieved
at the fearfull fcandale of that unhappie apoftate the Queen of Swan1 : it's
good me fignifies a meer cypher for civile power, and is of fo bad a reputa
tion for her carriage thefe years bygone ; it's lyke her maintainance will be
more burdenfome than ufefull to the Popifh partie. The progrefle of the
King of Swan is flrange. Since the taking of Cracow, we know not what he
wants of that great kingdome ; I cannot think that Brandeburgh can be fo
ill-advyfed as to draw the remainder of that ftorme on his own head, without
all occalion. If the Lord will be pleafed to advance the gofpell by that pro
digious change, we will quicklie fee : it feems he takes that kingdome by
the right alone of arms, and makes it hereditarie to himfelf and the Croune
of Swan, with the Poles univerfall confent.
Since I came from Edinburgh, there is two or three papers more paft be
twixt us and the Remonftrators, which makes our wounds wyder, efpeciallie
fince by violence they avow openly to opprefs us ; one part of them under
Wariftone and Mr. Guthrie's patronage, though diffallowed by others, puts
into their hand the power of making all the churches voyd. They look, by
their fupplicating of the Englifh, for erecting of themfelves in a commiffion
for purging, againft which the Prefbyterie of Edinburgh hes given ane honeft
teftimonie, (II.). Ane other part, under the patrocinieof Mr. Patrick Gil-
lefpie and Mr. J. L[ivingftone,] by the Englifh ordinance, takes the power
1 Christina, Queen of Sweden. She succeeded her father Gustavus Adolphus in 1632,
when only five years of age; but resigned the crown in 1654, and soon after abjured the
Lutheran religion. She spent most of her subsequent life at Rome, where she died in 1689.
She was interred in St. Peter's, Rome, where there is a splendid monument to her memory,
by Fontana, erected at the expense of Pope Alexander VIII.
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of planting all with their own friends, though paffionately disclaimed by the
other. Againft thefe fearfull oppreflions we have no humane help. We
can not make fuch cordiall application to the Englifh as they doe ; fo we fear
they fhall lend their power to the other for our hurt ; whereof, and other
things, ye fee how I exprefs my fenfe to a friend at London, (K K.) ; the
return to which yow have here alfo, (L L.). I break off here till the next
occafion. My fervice to your kind wife.
Your Coufin,
December 31ft 1655. R. B.
(K K.j FOR HIS REVEREND AND MUCH-BELOVED BROTHER MR. SIMEON
ASHE, MINISTER AT LONDON.
YOUR'S of November 15th, was very refrefhfull, that the Lord is pleafed yet
to lend fome of yow to his people there. I have no yet feen your funerall
[fennon] on Mr. Whitaker : fend me one of them ; my intereft in that pre
cious faint was great, for eftimation and love mutuall. I am forie Mr. Marfhall
is a-dying ; he was ever in my heart a very eminent man. His many fer-
mons on that verfe of John viii, 36, " If the Son make yow free, ye fhall
be free indeed," I have oft prefled him to make publid : he was the
preacher now living who ordinarly moil affeded my heart ; I wifh yow
prefled him to let fo many of his papers be publifhed as may be. I hear
Dr. Young hes a good treatife for the prefle. I am fure zealous Mr.
Edwards had fundrie : yow have been midwife to fome already after their
death, and I alfo. A pitie fome men's labors Ihould perifli, and others
mould not perifh. Mr. Marmall long ago loft the hearts of our Nation. He
was the main inftrument of that Nationall Covenant with God, and among
ourfelves, which wont to hing on the walls of your churches : it will hing
ever before the eye of God, the prime Covenanter : never a league fo open-
lie and univerfallie tread upon, and obliterate without all juft caufe. I wifli
Mr. Marlhall, for faving of his own foule, before he appear at Chrift's barr
did exoner himfelf with the Proteclour, if he come to vifit him, as I think
he will, or otherwayes in write, about everie article of that Covenant. I think
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the Prote6lour will take it as weell to be freely and friendly dealt with by
dying Mr. Marfhall as any man on earth ; and I hope Mr. Marfhall will be
loath to deny this very neceflary and laft fervice to Chrift and his owne foule,
if yow there will require it of him. But as filentium perdidit Amyclas^ fo
in thefe days gracious men's fear to offend their friends by their freedome,
leaves them even in their death to the dangerous offence of God. I blefs
God yow have fo much as the mew of a Prefbyterie and Synod. Why has
not all England and Ireland fo much ? Why want yow a Generall Affem-
blie? Why have ye no power at all to execute ecclefiaftick jurifdiction ?
not fo much as Independents, Anabaptifts, or Papifls have among their owne.
For all thefe, as we hear, are tollerate to exercife their difcipline among them-
felves ; only yow Prefbyterians are either reflrained or not carefull to ufe
your libertie. Can it be any maxim of State to deny that libertie to Prefby
terians in England for the exercife of Proteftant difcipline, which the Popilh
Kings of France and Pole did never deny to our brethren, to whom they per
mitted the libertie of their religion ? But fo far as we know, yow have never
fought this benefite. Whatever ye doe or leave undone, we here take all in
the befl part it may be taken ; confidering your difficulties : yet, for myfelf,
I loved ever ane ingenuous fimplicitie and honeil zeal more than too much
cautious wifdome. While yow are permitted to ufe the fhaddow of your
powerlefs Provinciall fynod, were it not good to appoint a committee of a few
the fitteft to confult, as on other things fo, how to ftirr up thefe whom they
know fitteft in all England for writing on every needfull fubject. Yow have
many mod able pens as any Church this day ; for want of upftirring many
of them are like to doe no fervice. What yow commend to me, I have no
leafure for it, befide all elfe, my weekly preaching and four public!; leffons in
our Colledge take up all my time ; and in our vacation, fome other things
which I have of my own, and of other men's, for the preffe, take me up.
Yow have a multitude there much fitter than I for that and all things elfe.
Mr. Rutherfoord tells me yow have his Anfwer to Hooker at laft : let it be
printed if yow there think fitt. Mr. Dickfon's Cafes of Confcience will be
abroad, I hope, before this come to yow. But fome of yow there would be
put on to profecute that excellent fubject. Will yow let Mr. Cotton's oflen-
tative bragges, of the Independents appropriating to their faction this part of
divinity, go as a fenfible truth ? Mr. Baxter's writs are read with a good eye
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by many ; his laft peice of Judgement, preached and printed in the mids of
your citie, in the preface, commending yow citie minifters, and your difci-
pline, fo highly offends and Humbles many : it feems to be (luffed with groffe
Arminianifme : Why take yow no care either to gaine the man from his errors,
or yoke with him fome able divines to guard againft his infe&ion ? Sundry here
are thinking to take him to taik ; but I love and highly efteeme the man, for
much good I find in his writs : I think him ill loft. Noble Mr. Vynes or
Mr. Burgefs, if they were fet to deale with him in a loving private way,
might doe weell ; mind this. I fee Mr. Haak, at laft, is printing there the
Dordracen Notes in Englifh ; his longfomenefs, for fo many years, made me
almoft repent of getting him, of our penurie, two hundred pounds for that
fervice. The Polyglott Bible, now on your prefie, is to me the moft excel
lent book that ever any where was printed, if Dr. Waltham* perfyte his un
dertaking. If either yow or any of your friends had fafhions of3 that to me
very commendable man, I wifh yow made my addrefle to him, that now and
then I might write to him for the public! good : let me know if this may be
-without your fafherie. Our arme here is broken for all difcipline, moft by our
diflenting brethren running to a fchifme. Poperie encreafes more than thefe
feventy years. We lately had a long twenty dayes conference at Edinburgh
for union with our brethren ; more than a dozen of papers paft among us.
I fend yow here one to (hew yow what we offered ; but we find the true
flick to be beyond their old errour, (which yet no Church, furely no fettled
State in the world, will approve) of the unlawfullnefs to joyne in defence of
the nation againft the invafion of a forraigne enemie, if fo the nation's armie
have fome officers otherwayes qualified than a few private perfons think fitt,
though both the Kirk and State, (the Parliament and Generall AfTembly,)
declare their full fatiffadlion with them. This unnatural principle, which as
much as any one thing on earth, did openly and vifiblie procure our late
ruine, our brethren are ftill obftinately for it, and will not be content we per-
mitt them to enjoy their opinion, except we confent to their impugning the
verie conftitution of that Generall AfTemblie which allowed our judgement,
which is doubtlefs the judgement of all Churches, and all nations which yet
s Dr. Hrian Walton, afterwards Bishop of Chester. His noble edition of the Polyglott Hil>l<1
was, after several years labour, completed at London 1657, in six vols. folio.
3 By this phrase he no doubt means, " had acquaintance with."
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hes lived on earth. But our brethren now are proceeded further to declare the
body of our prefbyteries, fynods, and congregations, to conlift of a pluralitie
of corrupt members, fo farr as they refufe openly fubmiffion to the fentences
of any of our Kirk Judicatories. We deny not much humane frailtie ; and
we offer to goe on to purge out bcth of congregations, prefbyteries, and
fynods, faithfullie in the fight of God, whomever the word of God, or any
rule of our Church, or any juil reafon requires to be purged out ; albeit
we think the pluralitie of our Church Judicatories and congregations was
never better than this day, or ever, in their eye, fhall be better in any
Nationall Church. However, becaufe we are not fo ram as they to con-
demne fo many unheard, they have flowne out to a ftrange devife, to fet up a
few of themfelves as a Committee of the Generall Aflemblie, with full jurif-
diction over all our land, to put in and out of the miniflrie whom they think
fitt. Againft this horrible ufurpation, the Prefbyterie of Edinburgh hes
given this inclofed Teflimonie, wherein almofl all the prefbyteries and fynods
of this land will joyn. Our fear is not fo much that the Councell of State,
whom they have fupplicat, will authorize them in fo unexampled ane tyran
nic, as that our divifion be ufed for ane occaiion by the State to take in
their owne hands, from us both, all ecclefiaflick jurifdiclion, which will be to
us a great increafe of our miferies. When we had fatiffied the proclamation
againfl public! prayer for the King, we expected more equitie and favour
than before : we wifh we find no much lefle. The Supplication which our
Diffenters gave in to the Councell for power, under the name of purging,
to make havock of our Church, hes yet gott no anfwer : we fufpect it is fent
up to the Proteclmir to have his mind of it, and there we have no friends to
reprefent the truth. The grievances we gave to the Generall, anent many
grievous abufes in our Church, which we believe was fent up by him,
according to his promife, doe lye there, without any returne we know. But
the Ordinance, which fome of our brethren did obtaine of the Protectour,
that no flipend mould be given to any intrant but fuch as in effecl they lyke,
though not only we did demonftrate its mifchief, but the chief of the Dif
fenters themfelves difclaimed it, in this paper of Warifloune's and Mr. Guth-
rie's ; yet it firmlie continues, to our great grief and hurt. In all thefe, and
many more grievances, we mourne to God ; and upon this occafion I let
yow know our condition, that yow may mourne with us, for more can no be
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expected from yow at fuch a tyme. It's ane eafe to a burdened fpirit to
difcharge itfelfe in the bofome of a compaflionate friend, fuch as long yow
have been to the Church of Scotland, and myfelf in particular. The Lord
uphold your fpirits hi his wayes in thefe very defective tymes. My prayer
and blefling be on the conftant brethren there, and all their labours. My
fpeciall love to yourfelf.
Your Brother,
December 31ft 1655. R. B.
(L. L.). [To MB. ROBERT BAILLIE.]
SIR,
BY reafon of a weak head and a goutie hand, I cannot poffiblie write fo
largelie as yow may expect, and as your letter doth require. This is the
firft writing which I have undertaken for the fpace of a fourtnight, and
now I put pen unto paper with difficultie, that I may not feem regardlefs of,
nor unthankfull for your intelligence.
Mr. Marfhall4 was dead before I received your letter, and I cannot give
yow intelligence of any conferrence with the Protector, either in reference
to the Covenant, or any other concernment. He was more fatiffied with the
change of government, both civill and ecclefiafticall, than many of his
brethren. Dr. Young5 is dead alfo ; and his papers about Difcipline are fo
voluminous, that no flationer will undertake to print them, becaufe that con-
troverfie lyeth dead among us, and few inquire for any books of that fubjeft :
Hence it is that Mr. Crooke is fo backward in putting to preffe that Anfwer
to Mr. Hooker, which Mr. Rutherfoord hath made and fent hither. We
have latelie loft worthie Mr. Vines :6 thus God increafeth our breaches : His
Majeftie teach us favinglie the meaning of thefe very fad providences. The
fame courfe (whereof yow juftly complained) is taken in England, to over-
1 Stephen Marshall. B. D. died in November 1655, and was interred in Westminster Abbey.
'' Thomas Young D. D. Vicar of Slow-market, in Suffolk, and Master of Jesus College,
Cambridge : Vide vol. i. p. 366 ; and Appendix to the present Volume.
fl In the MS. " Wines." — Richard Vines, A. M. Minister of Weddington, and Master of
Pembroke Hall, Cambridge, died in February 1655.
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throw the power and practife of Prefbyteriall government, and to advance
Independencie, as alfo to indulge Anabaptifls, and other erroneous perfons.
As for Mr. Baxter, he is doubtlefs a godly man, though tenacious in his
miftakes. Mr. Burgefs and Mr. Vines dealt with him to reduce him, but
could not convince him to fatiffadion. There are many good treatifes
publifhed by able men among us, though diverfe others are fo much in
the pulpit, that they cannot appear in the prefle. Through God's mercy,
many act prefbyteriallie in London, and in many counties, both in refer
ence to ordination and admiffion to the facrament, notwithftanding of dif-
couragements.
Sir, I hope yow will accept thefe lines, and pardon my brevitie upon the
account forementioned. I have fent the fermon which yow defyre. I pray
yow prefent my refpects to all my friends, as yow have occafion. We mind
yow in our prayers heartilie. The Lord help yow and us to wait by faith
with patience for his falvation through Chrift, in whom I am
Your loving friend and brother,
S. ASHE.
[To MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.]
SIR,
I MUST crave pardon for my long filence : it is not out of difrefpeclfull-
nefs, or forgetfullnefs of yow, or of the fad condition yow and the reft of
our dear Brethren with yow are in, but out of the multitude of bufineffes
that have hitherto hindered me. Truely, Sir, yow are in my heart, and my
prayers are not wanting for yow, that the Lord would teach yow the mean
ing of his fevere difpenfations towards your Nation, and that yow may learn
righteoufnefs by them ; and that the Lord would heall the fad divifions that
are between yow and your godlie brethren. I (hall ihortlie find a fpare
tyme to wryte to yow more largelie ; but being now at Mr. Afhe's, while he
was wryting his letter, I took the opportunitie to prefent my dear refpects to
yow, and Mr. Douglafs, Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Smith, and the reft of our godlie
brethren, whofe daylie prayers I heartilie implore, and mail ever remaine,
Your true friend and brother in the work of the Lord,
EDM. CALAMY,
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FOR MR. JAMES HAMMILTOUN.
JAMES,
THE cafe yow propone to me is very fad and dangerous. My firft
thoughts are thefe ; that yow guefle right, the authors and on-putters of it
hes, and will be, thefe unhappie foxes who, haveing cad of their owne tailes,
cannot reft till they force all their neighbours to caft of theirs alfo : your
dilemm is hard. If yow refufe, it's very lyke they will employ the Remon-
ftrators, diverfe of whom will follow their leader, and will put themfelfes in
power, both for ftipends and all things elfe belonging to Eraftian jurisdiction,
for making havock of our Church ; againfl whom all our complaints will be
flighted, and yow and all of our mind rnuft fuffer what the Remonftrators
pleafe to procure. If yow embrace the reft, yow fhall feem to your people
and all the countrie fo fair to comply that your perfons and miniftrie will
become unfavorie ; and for our fake, the little remainder of love that remains
to the Covenant and work of God in the land will totallie evanifh, and
many hearts will be caft fully open to returne where they were, or runn out
to any bye-way they like, with a high mifregard and difdaine of all we can
fay or doe to the contrare. 2. Our fellows in thefe labours, and moft be
loved, fhall be our Remonftrating brethren, yea, our northern feparatifts,
the flock will be our excommunicat, etc. with whom we muft joyne in filence.
3. We muft ferve in our turns as chaplaines at their call who will not be of
our Church, but diverfe may be known Independents, Anabaptifts, Erafti-
ans, apoftates from our Covenant, active inftruments in opprefling our
countrie ; which is hard to digeft. 4. If, according to your confcience, yow
difcharge yourfelf faithfullie as their foules require who are your hearers,
yow draw on yourfelfes greater trouble than yow would efhew. If yow be
allwayes filent it is a great finne, fliame, fcandale, change of our way of
preaching in all our former tymes. 5. Your example drawes out any of
all the land, whofe comeing to preach there, or refufeing, may undoe them,
and this be a lading and univerfall ground of work to the beft paftors in
the land. 6. It will be a difplayed banner to call all our people, with our
countenance, to joyne with Sectaries of all forts, though excommunicate,
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which will be a hodge-podge of all religions under our miniftrie, a farr
worfe evill than wicked toleration. 7. Who can recount the mifchieves
of that hellifh invention ? The Protector to this day hath never affayed
any fuch thing ; but yow will learn him the way : prevention will be the
bed, and a private earned dealing with the Prefident that he would be con
tent with one or two conftant chaplaines, be who they will ; but I could
wifti they were only Englifli, and thefe Prefbyterians. The Lord direct
yow. I feare the crofle we wold efhew will not be long keeped off: I
know the fpirit of the Remonftrators is reftlefs, and cannot ceafe from in
venting one mifchief after another without end. We are too little in prayer
for a delyverance from our oppreffion : With verie much adoe I got yow
followed in abftaining, etc. ; bot come of it what will, I will not get yow
followed if yow go to this purpofe.
Yours.
January 21ft 1656.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND WELL-BELOVED BROTHER MR. CRANFORD,
MINISTER AT LONDON, NEAR THE OLD EXCHANGE.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THE remembrance of my fweet fellowfhip with yow, and others there, is
oft refrefhfull to my heart, though the Lord juftlie has overturned, by the
hands of unjuft men, all our once fair bloflbming hopes and labours. The
occafion of my calling to yow at this tyme, is my defyre to know the con
dition of that excellent book, the beft to me that ever was printed, Dr.
Walton's Polyglott Bible ; we have fo much here of three copies as is printed.
What is this Dr. Walton for a man ? where bred ? and of what condition ?
When I was there, there was no fuch name heard of. I am much in love
with the man's labour, and almoft would venture to feek acquaintance of him
by letters, unlefs I had conceaved it fitter to underftand firft by yow the
man's qualities. That which I would defyre of him is the printing of an
Arabick and Samaritan Praxis. The Samaritan he promifes, by that man who
overfees the Samaritan Pentateuch ; and I pray yow what man is that ?7 Yow
7 Dr. Edmund Castell, who undertook and completed, in 1669, his Lexicon Heptaglotton,
comprising all the Oriental Languages in Walton's Polyglott, — a work of immense labour and
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would doe me a pleafure if yow would give me account of that whole
work, and of the men who are employed about it.8 I have fent yow a copie
of a letter of mine to Voetius at Utrecht, and his anfwer to me the lad yeare :
I have no hope to obtaine my defyre in thefe parts over-fea ; if yow there
do it not, it will not be done. I think, if yow or any of our friends would
deale in earned with Dr. Walton,9 he could eafily give us a Letter grammar
of the Arabick, and a full Praxis ; alfo of the Samaritane : for Chaldee
and Syriack we want not helps. This were a good fervice to the public!;,
and a help to many who, by his Bible, are ftirred up to the ftudy of all thefe
languages. But the great thing we have need of is a Courfe of philofophie.
I pray call at fome of your ftationers for my Hebrew Praxis : confider the
preface of it, and compare it with thefe two letters ; I doubt not but yow
and all reall fchollers will be in my mind. If by Dr. Tuckney, our good
friend, late Vice- Chancellor of Cambridge, or any of your acquaintance at
Oxford, or in the citie, yow could finde out two or three for to goe about
this excellent good work, for the great advancement of learning, and great
fervice and honour, not only of this Ifle, hot the whole Reformed Churches,
which lye under a great difgrace and grievous hurt, that to this day they are
fo negligent and bafe as to take the mod of all their philofophy from the word
of the Popifh divines, Friers, and Jefuites. I hope love to this ufefull and
noble defigne, and old friendfhip, will make yow content, at your leafure, to
let me know if any thing may be expected of this kind from among yow.
My heartie love and bed wiflies to yow and all yours. I red,
Your much honouring and loving Brother,
Glafgow, Augud 27th 1656. R. BAILLIE.
If my Appendix Practica ad Epitomen Grammaticce Hebrcece Joannw
Buxtorfii, printed at Edinburgh, 1653, be not eafily found there, I mail at
the fird occafion fend yow up one.
expense ; but for which he was so inadequately recompensed, that he had occasion to complain
having " spent twenty years in time to the; publick service, above £12,000 of his own estate,
and for a reward was left, in the close of the work, above £1,800 in debt."
8 The best account of Walton's Polyglott Bible, and of his assistants in carrying on that
great and laborious undertaking, will be found in Archdeacon Todd's Memoirs of the Bishop's
Life and Writings. Lond. 1821, 2 vols. 8vo.
9 As in a former letter, Baillie writes Walton's name, " Waltham."
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FOR MR. SPANG AT MIDDELBURGH. SEPTEMBER IST 1656.
REVEREND AND DEAR COUSIN,
I MUST intreat that yow would be pleafed to write ofter than of late yow
have done. Your occafions to Rotterdame, and from thence hither, can no
be but frequent. I defyred yow to try if yow can get a courfe of the French
Currents of Antwerp or Bruffells ; let me try the laft moneth of them : yow
remember yow fent me, for three or four years punctually, the French Gazet
from Amflerdam ; fee if the like can be done from Bruffells or Antwerp, to
which yow are now nearer. I long exceedingly for Dr. Strang's book : what
yow have for the Colledge fend it with the firfl occafion : I hope your by
gone count is payed, and more money will be fent yow fhortly. I pray yow,
in your firfl to Voetius, remember my heartie fervice to him for his kind and
prolix anfuer to my letter. Try if he hes any returne, either from Buxtorf
or Golius, about my motion to them : we all long for a new enlarged edition
of his Bibliotheck, and a third volumne of his Thefes. I am informed that
there is no man fitter to draw a Philofophick Curfus than his own fon : will
yow try if he can be perfuaded to it, who now is in ley for any fervice.
What is Heidanus for a man ? What is become of Morus and Blondell ? Is
there no man who, after Spanheim, does mind the controverfie with Ami-
raud ? As long fince I defired yow to gather the adverfarie pieces of Voetius
and Marelius, and fend them to us ; doe it yet. What is my good friend
Apollonius doing ? Is there no more of Bochartus, or Henricus Philippus,
come out ? That the more willingly yow may give me ane account of all this,
behold I am at the labour to let yow know how all our affaires Hand here.
To myfelf the Lord is flill very good, continuing my health, wealth, credit,
welfare of all my fix children, afiiflance in every part of my calling, bleffed
be his name I I live peaceably with all men ; I go to no Church meeting,
prefbyterie, or fynod, on the ground I mew yow before. Mr. James Durhame
is independent with me, (which contributes to my peace,) but his grounds
are diverfe. When Mr. David Dickfon went to Edinburgh, with very
violence he forced us to give Mr. James a call to his profeffion of the Col-
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ledge ; before he entred to it, the Generall Aflemblie appointed him minifter
for the King. We then called Mr. Robert Ramfay to that profeflion. When
Mr. James was wearie of the Court, his partie here was earned for his re-
turne to the Colledge. The man then, and before, and to this day, was to
me very precious and deare; for however I have (as oft I told him,) been
very difatiffied with many of his wayes, yet I counted him one of the mod
gracious, wife, and able preachers now in this Ifle. I could have been gladly
content he had come to Mr. Ramfay's place in the miniftrie, or to Dr. Strang's
place of Principall ; but to his former place of profeflion, whereto we called
Mr. Ramfay, I was not content he fhould returne, and did oppofe it what I
could ; fo much the more, that I found, from himfelfe, that he was to en
deavour Mr. Patrick Gillefpie to be our Principall, which then to me feemed
very inconvenient. When Mr. Ramfay died, then would I gladly have Mr.
Durhame to any thing he lyked ; but all fell crofle to my defyre ; my friend
Mr. Zacharie [Boyd], and others, fell paflionat to have Mr. John Young to
the profeflion, and caried it, fore againft my mind. Mr. P. G[illefpie], by the
"Englifh, fet himfelf doune in Dr. Strang's place. The feflion drew up fo un-
orderlie a call for Mr. R. Ramfay's place of the miniftrie, that the moft of
the towne drew up a proteftation againft it : Mr. Durhame counted his proper
place to be that of the Colledge which Mr. John Young had poflefled, and
not caring to tak [talk ?] of the proteftation, did ferve in Mr. R. R[amfay's]
place of miniftrie, (no man contradicting him,) from time to time, but in a
loufe way ; and when our great jarrs in Prefbyterie and Synod arofe, did ab-
ftaine as weell as I from all meetings. On this his carriage as malcontent
he hes had fundry invitations to other places ; but that that I fear may carrie,
is an earned defire of Sir John Clotworthy to have him to Antrim, as he
fayes, to further the work of God in all Ireland, and to be Proveift of a Col
ledge which he hopes to get creeled in that place. Sir John hes made the
Prefident Broghill deall with him for that effect, and put the Protectour alfo
upon it. My heart truely would be forrie if he (hould remove : he is the
minifter of my familie, and almoft the only minifter in this place of whom my
foull getts good, and whom I refpe6l in fome things above all men I know :
he hes a very fatiffaclorie treatife on the Revelation, which I encourage him
to print. If the gravell and melancholic cut not his dayes, he may be for
much good fervice. I did oft repent my oppofition of his re-entrie to the
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College, though I remain in the mind I did no wrong ; and as things then
were, I could not have weell done otherwayes than I did.
The matters of our Colledge this yeare were peaceable ; our gallant
building going on vigoroufly ; above twenty-fix thoufand pound are already
fpent upon it : Mr. Patrick Gillefpie with a very great care, induflrie, and
dexteritie, manageing it himfelf as good as alone. But our inward and mod
necefTar materialls are too much neglected. The Bacheller Regent, Mr.
George Sinclair, almoft the whole year, was dangeroufly lick, to the great
hurt of the claffe. Mr. P. Young, Magiflrand Regent, was exceeding ne
gligent in his attendance, to the great hurt of that claffe. Mr. J. Veitch,
the Bajon Regent, partly through ficknefs, and partly by tryells and call to
the miniftrie, neglected much that claffe. Mr. A. Burnet waited, according
to his parts, much better on the Semies. Our divinitie ftudents were
but few, and however they had leffons enough from Mr. J. Young and
me, yet they minded fludie but little ; for when they fee their weak com
panions, the fecond or third yeare after their laureation, put in the befl
places, with exceeding poor fufficiencie, it makes the reft the more to
neglect all ftudie, but only to preach in their popular kind of way, which
requires little learning.
I am glad my hand is free of their plantations totallie. Mr. James Ram-
fay, a very able and fufficient youth as we have of his age, planted by us in
Leinzie, to the great fatiffaclion of all, except a very few who choifed ane
Englifh feclarie, to whom they promifed the ftipend ; when, after two
years trouble, the Englifhman removed, our brethren Mr. P. Gillefpie, Mr.
James Durhame, Mr. John Carftares, all much obliged to Mr. R. Ramfay
for their own places, would not for any intreatie be pleafed to let his fon
live in peace : fo we let him go to Lithgow, where he is much better than
he could have been where he was ; but in his place they have put one
evidently of farre meaner parts, Mr. Harrie Forfyth, lately a baxter boy,
laureat within thefe two years, a little, very fecklefs-lyke thing in his perfon,
and mean in his gifts, but the fon of a Gillefpy : to him, the parifh weary of
ftrife, wherein by the Englifh power they were allwayes oppreffed, yeilded in
filence without oppofition. In Campfie likewife, in [place of] Mr. Archibald
Denneftone, depofed by them without any confiderable caufe, much to my
grief, and againft the heart of his parifh who loved him, they have planted
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Mr. John Law, within thir three years brought from a pottinger to be laureat.
In Rugland,1 againft the people's heart, they have planted a litle maniken of
fmall parts, whom I never faw ; and forced old Mr. Robert Young, albeit as
able yet as ever, to give over his miniftrie. In Cathcart, where they had
planted an Englifhman againft my mind, haveing, after two or three years
tryell enough of him, they fhuffled him over to Ireland, and are to plant
another young thing, lately laureat, with fmall contentment to the people.
In Glafgow, Mr. Andrew Gray being dead of a purple fever, of a few
dayes roveing, the Magiftrates would have been at the calling of Mr. J. Fer-
gufone, one of the mod excellent young men of our land. But to this Mr.
James Durhame and the reft were fo averfe, that they were ready, publickly,
to have oppofed it. So the Magiftrates knowing their unabilitie to carry any
call contrarie to their mind, yielded to let them call whom they pleafed.
Mr. James Durhame would have been at Mr. J. Law before they put him
on Campfie ; but Mr. Patrick caried it to Mr. Robert Macquare, who lately,
for inabilitie of body, had left his charge in the Colledge, and evidently was
unable for fuch a charge as Glafgow : yet they put him in nemine contradi-
cente, and that without all the ordinarie tryalls, being unable, for his health,
to have undergone them : appearandly the burthen ftiortly will crufli him, ex
cept he go on to doe as he hes done yet, frequently to let his place vaike.
Through the violence of that partie our Church, in thefe parts, is in a hard
condition, and for the tyme remedilefs. They got a little flop lately from
whence it was not expected. At Blantyre, Mr. John Heriot, of feventy-eight
years, haveing admitted Mr. James Hamilton helper, with two parts of his
ftipend, becaufe he would not thereafter give over the whole, the Prefbyterie
of Hamilton intended a procefs againft him, for fmall unconGderable caufes,
and depofed him ; when he is charged to remove from his houfe, and all he
hes there, his fon, by the friendfhip of Swinton, gets the Englifh to take
notice of the violent oppreflion ; who, after a full hearing, decerne the old
minifter to enjoy all, even what before he had been content to quite. This
preparative is dangerous for our whole Church ; but the unhappy violence of
thefe unadvyfed men draws on thefe evills on themfelfes and others.
1 OrRutherglen : The person here rather disrespectfully mentioned, was John Dickson, one
of the Covenanters. He was ejected after the Restoration, and for many years was confined upon
the Bass ; but at the Revolution, he was restored to his parish, and died in the year 1700.
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This is lyke now to be the refuge of all they opprefs ; but a miferable one :
it puts all our Church caufes in the hands of the Engliih, who defyre to
be judges of them according to their Eraflian principle, though ordinarily
our brethren have the ear of the Englifh to doe with them what they pleafe.
With much adoe your old friend, a right honefl and able man, more than
the moft of his neighbours, Mr. Allan Fergufon of Drimmen, efcaped their
hands. The laft Synod had put a committee to the Prefbyterie of Dumbar-
tan to try a number of (landers noyfed upon him : when, befide all his elders,
four-fcore and fourteen witneffes are fworne and tryed, nothing at all is found
againfl him. This procefs, and another of his neighbour Mr. David Adam-
fone of Fintrie, where alfo, after much noyfe, nothing was found, hes made
their fervour of purgeing in our bounds much to relent ; for, as oft I told
them, they will find on tryell, that the men to be purged out are on their
fide, not on ours, if there were any juftice. At that fame Synod the depo-
iition of Mr. R. Hume was ratified, as I was informed, very unjufllie.
In the other parts of the land we fee no relenting of our brethren's fer
vour. Mr. Liviftoun, notwithstanding of all the trouble about the planting
of Eccles, hes gone on to the lyke enormous practice at Sproufloun, coming
in on the Prefbyterie of Dunfe, with two or three of the neighbour prefby-
teries, and planting Mr. S[amuel] Row, one of their partie, contrare to the
mind of all the Prefbyterie ; how farr againft the fundamental laws of all
our difcipline yow will fee in the Prefbyterie's declaration, (A.). Mr. James
Guthrie is ftill in contefl with the people of Stirling, but in more vexation
than formerly ; for his colleague, Mr. Matthias Simfone, is as headie and
bold a man as himfelf, and hes good hearing with the Englifh, fo that he
is like to get the flipend ; and [Mr.] Rule to live perquire. Mr. James and
Warifloune are on their old defigne ftill, to fet up their Commiffion for
tyrannizing over the Kirk ; but it's like the Englifh will not countenance
them, the thing is fo extreamlie and evidentlie unjuft ; alfo fome of us are
fallen in with the Englifh farre enough.
The Prefident Broghill is reported by all to be a man exceeding wife and
moderat, and by profeffion a Prefbyterian : he hes gained more on the
affections of the people than all the Englifh that ever were among us. He
hes been very civill to Mr. Dowglafs and Mr. Dickfon, and is very intime
with Mr. James Sharp ; by this means we have ane equall hearing in all
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we have adoe with the Councell ; yet their way is exceeding longfome, and
all mud be done firft at London. It's but the other week that Mr. P.
G[illefpie's] abfurd order for dipends was gotten away : he puts us in hopes
of more favours.
That much-talked-of refpecl to Mr. Wood, (though yet I have not in
quired it of himfelfe,) as I hear, was this: Mr. Rutherfoord's daily bitter
contentions with him made him wearie of his place exceedingly ; the Old
Colledge being long vaiking, and he the elded mailer of it, and for fundrie
years employed to overfee it, almoft as Principall, was wiflied by fundrie
who loved it and him, to be placed there ; and there is no doubt he was the
fitted man living for that charge : but here was the infuperable difficultie ; a
fair call could not be gotten. The fyve mailers who had power to call were
divided ; one Campbell, a Remondrator, minded the place, and, by his
party, was no unlyke to have carried it from the Englidi ; one Martine, the
elded mader then in charge, alledging it to be his right to fucceed, with the
confent of other two mailers, went to the Englifli to fute their favour. The
Prefident, I think, on Mr. James Sharp's information, moved the Councell,
without Mr. Wood's knowledge, to make choice of him for the place : They
write a peremptor letter to the miniders and maders of St. Andrewes to
admitt Mr. James Wood Principall to the Old Colledge without delay.
When the Univerfitie is conveened, and the letter read, Mr. Campbell pro-
ted ed : the other three were moved to invite Mr. James, in obedience to the
Englifli command, but not to call him. Mr. James accepted the charge :
I am glad he is in it, or any other where he is contented ; for indeed he is
the mod ferviceable man our Church now hes : but I am not yet fatiffied of
his accepting of that place on the Englifli command ; for if, in Divine Pro
vidence, they who had right to call, for their own bafe and hurtfull defignes
refufed to call him, I think it was hard for him, upon whatever caufes, to
medle with it. I love not that we (hould judifie or harden the Englifli in
their ufurpations in our Univerfities rights : but thefe things I will debate
with himfelf at meeting.
Ane other paflage of ours I was not fatiffied with : Swinton was excom-
municat for his early complying with the Englifli. Sundrie of his friends
were earned to have him relaxed, that in their neceflar affaires they might
have the more libertie to imploy his help ; he was either fo proud, or fo
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feared to offend his matters, that he would neither acknowledge a fault, nor
petition for favour. When his friends dealt with the Prelbyterie of Edin
burgh, they fent two to conferr with him : all that they reported from him
was, that he was very willing to live and die in the communion of our
Church ; and that the reafon of his not-appearance, when cited to the Com-
miflion of Perth, was not contempt, but juft fear of his life. Upon this re
port, without any fupplication, he is relaxed the next Sabbath by Mr. James
Hamiltone. This I did not lyke at all as a meere fcorne of our difcipline.
Our brethren would not long be behind with us: for at once the Prefbyterie
of Air did relaxe good William Govane, who was at leaft on the fcaffold, at
the King's execution, if no more, excommunicat on the lyke occafion ; yea,
the Synod of Glafgow at Aire took the cenfure off Mr. P. Gillefpie and
Mr. James Naefmith, without any acknowledgement of a fault, or defyre to be
relaxed. To this ftrange enormitie, all formallie voted ; only Mr. James
Fergufone, Mr. Thomas Kircaldie, Mr. George Young, were abfent ; Mr.
John Bell and Mr. Alexander Nifbet removed themfelves ; but no difient
wes entered.
Our State is in a very filent condition : ftrong garrifons over all the land,
and a great armie, both of horfe and foot, for which there is no fervice at all.
Our Nobles lying up in prifons, and under forfaultries, or debts, private or
publicl;, are for the mod part either broken or breaking. No more word of
delyvering Crawford, Lauderdaill, Eglintone, Montgomerie, Ogilvie, Mermall,
and many more, than was the firft houre. Glencairne lyes Hill in the Caftle
of Edinburgh ; Colonel Borthwick betrayed him : the letter he brought to him
from the King, he delyvered to Monk before it came to Glencairne's hands,
and his anfwer of it alfo before it came to the King ; and yet, under the moil
fearfull imprecations can be devifed, the villaine wrote, unrequired, that he
had done no fuch things. Some fays, it would have flood hard with Glen
cairne's life, had it not been the Prelident's favour, procured by Mr. James
Sharp. The dyvour act, of lands for creditors at twenty years purchafe, has
made much clamour ; albeit none who has any credit has made ufe of it. All
the Advocats are returned to the barre. Balcolmie and Ker makes fome
more difpatch in caufes than was [before.] The Great Seall of Scotland,
(with Cromwell's large ftatue on horfeback, Olivarius Dei Gratia Reip.
Anglice Scotice et Hibernice Protector, under the arms of Scotland Pax
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Quceritur Bello,) is given to Defborough ; the Signet, with the great fees
of the Secretar's place, to Colonell Lockhart ; the Regifter's, to Judge
Smith ; and the reft of the places of State to others. The expences, delays,
and oppreflions in law-futes, are fpoken of to be as great as was ever.
The Spanifli warre has wracked many of our merchands ; albeit, in God's
mercie, as little lofs be fallen on our neighbours of this toune, as on any of
the Ifle ; for except one little fhip taken by the Bilkainers, near Burdeaux,
and James Bar's (hip, which, with himfelf, by a pitifull mifguiding, was
blowne up almoft in the harberie, we had no more lofle this year, whileas
a world of others has been wracked ; many more in a few moneths than was
all the time of your warre. It is much talked, that it is both your men and
Ihips that ferves the Spanifh in all thefe fpoils. Our fleet, waiting in vaine
on the coaft of Spaine, does little good to the merchands in thefe coafts, and
yet the taxes with us are great ; the maintainance was towards ten thoufand
pound fterling a month. They fay the excife will be double ; fo that the
revenue will be above three hundred thoufand pounds a-year, the halfe
whereof is never together among us. The trueth is, money was never
fo fcarce here, and groweth dailie fcarcer, and yet it's thought this Parlia
ment in September is indicted mainlie for new taxations. What England
may bear, to whom the Protectour remitted the halfe of their monethlie
maintainance of one hundred and twenty thoufand pound flerling, I know
not ; but Scotland, whofe burthen has been triple, befide the fynes, for-
faulters, debts, and other miferies, feems unable to bear what lyes on
already. Wife men think the Protector wifer than to defire the emptie title
of a King, when he has much more already than the King. No man
looks for any good of this Parliament, but fears evill ; yet all who are wife
thinks that our evills would grow yet more if Cromwell were removed.
They think his government, as it is, will be fair better than a Parliament, or
any thing elfe they expect ; only all think this warre with Spain needlefs
and hurtfull, and hopes by the Parliament it will be taken away.
There was never fo great felicitation for votes to be chofen Commiffioners
as now among us. It's like there mail be none of the whole number more
cordiall for all the Proteftor's defyres, be what they may, than thefe that
come from Scotland. It's faid Mr. James Guthrie and my Lord Warifloun,
with their friends, have been fitting more than this fourtnight in Edinburgh,
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drawing their papers, to be fent by fome of their number to the Protectour
or Parliament. They were fo abfurd, that Mr. P. Gillefpie, who was
expelled to have been fent up to agent them, turned his back, and left
them : yet they will not want agents. We think my Lord Broghill, com-
miffioner for the Toune of Edinburgh, will croffe their injuftice and irra-
tionall violence. However, our minds will be in no peace till we fee what
this Parliament will bring forth. No man I know expecls any good from
it ; and that is our condition for the prefent, that we can be hardlie worfe.
Through God's mercie our Toune, in its proportion, thryves above all the
land. The word of God is weell loved and regarded, albeit not as it ought
and we defyre ; yet in no toune of our land better. Our people has much
more trade in comparifon than any other : their buildings encreafe flrangelie
both for number and fairnefs : it's more than doubled in our tyme.2 I pray
God to encreafe his blefling on this place of our birth, albeit I am feared
for it; for on Sunday was eight dayes at four houres in the morning,
Auguft 17th, there was a fenfible earthquake in all the parts of the toune,
though I felt it not. Five or fix yeares agoe there was ane other, in the after-
noone, which I felt, and was followed with that fearfull burning, and all the
other makings has been among us fince. The Lord preferve us from his
too well deferred judgements !
For the pofture of forraigne affaires, they are thus reprefented to us : that
the frequent tumults of Conftantinople, killing Vifier after Vifier, and
threatening the young Sultan himfelf, does weaken much that Empire, fo
that Venice the alone has been able to keep up warre with them, thefe
dozen of years, with yearlie advantage ; but we think it flrange that this
Republick this lad year has buried no lefle than three Dukes. The French
continue their fate of unhappinefs beyond the Montes : betide their difafter
the other year in Naples, and their calamitie at Pavy, their liege at Valentia
at this tyme, for ah1 the help Savoy and Modena make to them, looks very
ill-favoured, when the Spaniard lyes round about their trenches.
This Pope feemes as diffimulat a companion as any of his predeceffors.
His felf-denyed Holinefs would for a whole yeare have none of his kindred
2 The population of Glasgow which at different periods presents a striking instance of
encrease, in 1610 amounted to 7644; in 1660, to 14,678 ; in 1755, to 23,546; in 1801, to
77,385 ; in 1821, to 147,043 ; and by the late census, in 1841, to 257,592.
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come near him ; but at laft his old matter and lord of Siena, the Duke of Flo
rence's importunat prayer mud overcome his obftinacie to permitt his brother
and nephews come near ; and fo foon as they came, the good of the Church
required the chief places of command, both by fea and land, in the whole
ecclefiaftick dominions, to be put in their hands. That infamous woman,
the Queen of [Sweden], having enough of Rome, and Rome more than
enough of her, is landed in France : what will be the end of her wandering,
who can conjecture ? This terrible plague, which from Naples is flown to
Rome, not withflan ding all their extraordinary guards, and affrights, it
feems, not only all Italic, but all the neighbouring nations. We are glad
that the fearfull civill warres of the Switzers is like to end fo foone in peace.
We hope their peace will be a guard to the Proteflants in Piedmont.
We marvell that the Cardinall of France Ihould have had fo hard contefts
with the Parliament of Paris, and fo many in that popular fubjecl; of money :
when the Pope, and the clergy fitting in a Generall AfTemblie fo long at Paris,
are not very weell content ; when Orleans is from Court, and Condee in the
head of a Spanifh armie ; at fuch a feafon to provoke the Parliament and
people of Paris in the tender matter of moneys, feems to favour more of the
Cardinall's Roman courage than his Italian wifdom. Turenne, to us afarr off,
feems not to have been more unhappie in this fiege of Valencien than unad-
vifed. A half-eyed man might have forefeen the remedilefs danger of his
armie's cutting in two, fo that the only meane of communication was a dam
or bridge or what elfe, which the encreafe of waters could eafily break, and
make the one half of his armie ufelefs to the other, in whatever danger : this
feems an improvidence unanfwerable in a lefie renouned generall than Turenne.
That Condee did not fall on his halfe of the armie, as he did on Senclerres, it
was the great mercy of God to him and our religion in France, that in his
ruine might have gott a great wound ; and as it is, the wicked Papifts may
count it a complot betwixt him and his old friend Condee, that he was not
lighted on. If thefe difafters force the Cardinall unto a peace with Spain, I
fear it prove much hurtfull to the Proteftants every where. As Orleans
is at Court alreadie, fo if a generall peace bring Condee alfo, the Cardinall
is undone ; and whatever this may worke for our King, yet I fear the hurt
of Proteftants every where, if Spain, Auftria, and the Pope, be not hindered
by France to execute their wicked defignes.
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If Sueden and Brandenburg, immediately on the junction, have defeat Cafi-
mire and his great armie, we look for fome good in thefe lands ; for whatever
be the originals of the warre, yet to me it's evident, that the ruine of the King
of Sueden is the hazard of all the Proteftants round about. I marvell of
Dantzick's wifdome, that fo long has been fo great an impediment to his pro-
grefs, and more of your States, that will faill fo farr to provoke that Prince
in fo unfeafonable a nick of tyme. It's the Auftrian's great happinefs that
gives him, in all the corners of Germany, fo deep a peace, when his deadly
infirmities, and tender age of his fon, and weaknefs alfo of his brother
Leopold, does fo much require it : I muft excufe him for his help to the
Polifti King, and the Spaniard, albeit France and Sueden cannot bot deeply
refent it, if they had leafure to mend it. We will dand on our watch-tower,
and look on with ane earned defyre of any thing may come out of all thefe
dangerous commotions, which may look towards the performance of the
Lord's great promifes, Antichrid's ruine, the bringing in of the Jews, the
breaking or Chridianing the Turks, and other Pagans : alfo, if any thing
may come forth for the putting off our fhame, and repairing of our mines in
thir lands.
The King is fo farr forgot here, that not one man, fo farr as I know, keeps
any correfpondence with him ; nor doe we hear at all what he does or intends :
yet I think diverfe pray to God for him, and wifh his reflitution. But if
men of my Lord Broghill's parts and temper be long among us,3 they will
make the prefent government more beloved than fome men with. From
our publict praying for the King, Broghill's courtefies, more than his threats,
brought off our leading men. -My averfenefs from that omiffion, yow fee in
my anfwer to Mr. Dickfon anent that point, (B.) : what was faid by Mr.
Wood for leaving of it, yow have here alfo, (C.). About the time of ab-
daining I was a more earnefl fupplicant for him than ever ; whereupon fome
of my good neighbours did deferre me to the Councell as an earned preacher
for the King. This was falfe ; for in doctrine I drack not on that dring ;
only, fo long as I might doe it, without fcandall, or reflecting on my wifer and
better brethren's omitting of it, I did never paffe it by in prayer.
When in that we had yielded, we were like to be put farder to it : our un
happy Remondrators did dill occafion trouble. Mr. Lividoun made no bones
3 Vide infra, page 343.
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to preach and pray publiftly with the Englifh, and perfuaded Mr. Patrick Gil-
lefpie to begin before him ; fo that Mr. Patrick, when he came to Edinburgh,
made no fcruple to preach in the Englifh church to their Councell and Judges,
and goe home in coach with the Prefident, and fay his grace at his table ; yea,
in Glafgow to preach to their circular court, and feaft the Judges in his
houfe. This made the Councell endeavour to have fo many of our beft
preachers appointed by turne to come to Edinburgh to preach to them. When
my opinion was craved in this unhappie motion, I gave it the anfwer yow may
fee at (D.), and, by God's blefling, got it crulhed for the time ; but how
long, I know no; for Mr. Liviftoun being folifted to go to Ireland, was
fent over there by his Remonftrator brethren to make a vifite and returne.
It hes been their defigne this long time to fill Ireland with their partie ;
and they have come too good fpeed. I did what I could to help that evill ;
albeit not with that fuccefs I would. Mr. John, fo foon as he went over,
he goes immediately to Dublin, and there is content to be employed to
preach to the flate. What evill this may work we know no : Efpecially
.Warriftone and Mr. Guthrie's impatience to be out of work, and keeped
downe, inclyning them, as fome fay, to come nearer the Englifh than they
did : yet their defigne being evident to play the tyrants in the whole Church,
and to put the Magiftracie of the land in their partie's hand, which they
call the Godly, fo many will be againll them as it's hoped they will not pre-
vaill. Mr. P. Gillefpie fand their defigne fo unfeafonable, and fo irrationall,
that he left their meeting difpleafed this laft week : yet Sir George
Maxwell, who with him is all one, thought the week before to have caried,
by a number of blew caps of that partie, the commifiion of the Sheriff-
dome of Aire and Baranthrow to himfelf, on purpofe, as they fay, to have
been that partie's agent with the Protector in all their defires. But my
Lord Cochran's diligence and wifdome bracke Sir George's defigne. Time
will let us know more of men's fecret contrivances, which are yet covered.
We remember the other moneth a fingular judgment of God on Mr.
Thomas Charteris, a prime one of that partie. When firft he had declared for
Independencie, I prefled in two diverfe fynods to excommunicat him ; but I
could not be heard, for Mr. P. Gillefpie, Mr. John Carftares, and Mr. Fran
cis Aird, all in face of fynod, avowed he was a godly man and might not be
fo ufed. Hereafter, when not only he deferted his poor charge of Stanhoufe,
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but fet himfelf by the Englifh in the kirk of Kilbryde, the beft ilipend in the
weft, taking the manfe and glebe, kirk, and all to himfelf, and his congrega
tion of Independents, gathered from the parifhes about, of twenty perfons,
or within thirty, leaving the parifh of about two thoufand to build a houfe,
and contribute a ftipend of their owne ; this fearfull oppreffion, and of
mofl pernicious example, made him appear not to be fo good as his fac
tion had counted him, efpecially when he was found to be exceeding greedy
and worldly, as Mr. Patrick Gillefpie oft thereafter faid of him ; for when
he had gotten, befide twelve chalder of victual!, a hundred pound fterling
a-year, from the Engliih, out of the ftipends of other kirks, all contented him
not ; but he made almofl a trade of couping horfes. When no bodie could get
order of him, God put to his hand, and eafily killed him. After fundry of
his Independent congregation, and among the reft his owne man, had left him
and turned quaker, clapping a horfe in the kirk-yard on Saturday at night,
the horfe ftrake him on the breaft ; of which being tormented all night, he
dyed in the morning, without repentance, fo farr as I heard, for any of his
public! offences.
This feel of Quakers is like to prove troublefome : they increafe much
among the Englifh both in England and Ireland. They in a furious way
cry doune both miniftrie and magiftracie ; fome of them feem acluallie pofleft
with a devill, their fury, their irrationall paffions, and bodilie convulfions are
fo great. Lieutenant Ofburne, one of our firft apoftates to the Englifh, and
betrayers to his power of our armie, for which he had great favour and re
wards from Cromwell himfelf, is ane open leader to them in the ftreet of
Edinburgh, without any punifhment. Sundry in Clydefdale, of the moft
zealous Remonftrant yeomen, hes turned fo ; and their increafe is feared,
which is the juft recompenfe of admitting the beginnings of error. They are
patient as yet of ftrokes ; but if the Fifth Monarchic men of the late Parlia
ment had prevailed, or if their partie goe on in its grouth, their fury is lyke
to goe to unmercifull killing (with their predeceffors) of all their oppofers.
When I had written this farr, your letters, with the boy Maxwell, came
to me : I fhall endeavour to fee the boy ufed as yow defire. I have delired
that your twenty-two gilders, fix ftivers, which is, as I remember, the reft of
my count with yow, may be employed, by John your nephew, for his ufe. I
think the Colledge will, in their counts with yow, from time to time ex-
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liauft more than his expenfe. I have not yet feen what books yow have fent,
but the Antwerp Gazet I wifli we had for the two lad months, to fee the
way of it. I know from them that faw and read it, there was a French one
printed weekly there, within this twelvemonth ; try if it yet be continued.
I am glad Dr. Strang's book is fo far advanced ; endeavour to get from
fome man there, if yow can, fome commendation in the frontifpiece : fo foon
as it is done, fend me fo many copies as yow barganed for gratis, or to be paid
as yow have agreed. I am forie if he have the lead of Amiraldifme ; had I
perceived it, I would have fcraped it out. If that vent weell, the reft of his
treatifes fliall follow, wherein will be no matter of offence, I hope, to any.
Whatever is to be got of the queftions of Amiraud pro or contra, or of the
Janfenifts pro or contra, let us have it with the firft. Yow know what we
have already ; if we fall to have what yow fend, it is but the fending of it
back, as VoJJius de Hi/tor ids Greeds et Latinis, which I hear now yow fent,
we had from London before. I conceive no man fo fitt to deall with Amiraud
and his partie, as Voetius. It were much to be wimed he were dealt with
to undertake this great and neceffar fervice ; might not Apollonius be moved
to mind that matter ? Baxter is lyke to fire England ; and fo be tymous
with thefe errours : See what yow can get done againil that evill.
Our Church-ftrifes are no lyke to agree ; the Remonftrants make it their
endeavour to put themfelffes, as the Commiflion 1650, or under fome fuch
notion, in a committee to purge and plant all Scotland, with the Englifh allow
ance to them as the Godly partie ; one of the vileft, moft fhamefull, and tyran-
nick tricks that ever was heard of in any church in any tyme. To prevent
this, our brethren there-Eaft hes fent up, with Broghill our profeffed friend,
Mr. J. Sharp to Cromwell ; with what inftructions I know not ; but I hear
very fair and honed. The Remonftrants cry out on this mefiage, though
alone to guard againft and prevent their mifchievous defignes ; they will not
be long a-fending one after him, to defyre openly, what long, by their letters
and fecret agents, they have been dealing for. This ftrife at this tyme is fhame
full and dangerous ; I love it not : my advyce was never fought to it ; but
on our part, it feems necefiar : I wifh it may end better than I feare.
I blefs God for that vi6lorie of Venice at the Dardanels, but more for that
of Sueden and Brandenburgh at Warfou : The Lord bleffe and preferve thefe
Princes for the good of the Proteftant intereft. Your States, as they ftand, are
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not loved here : they have given to Sueden a great, needlefs, and untymous
provocation, which though diffembled, is not lyke will be forgot. My love
and fervice to your kind wife, oft remembered by Harie, and all your three
daughters, whom I pray God to blefs.
Your Coufin,
1ft September 1656. R. B.
FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE MR. FRANCIS Rous.
SIR,
UNDERSTANDING by a letter from Miftrels Lammy, that you were yet to
the fore, and helpfull to fupplicants, and mindfull of me, notwithftanding of
all the changes pad, yea, for my caufe that poor gentlewoman's good friend,
I did rejoyce. I pray God yet to preferve you fome time, for I know, fo long
as yow are able to come to the Councell, or fpeak in Parliament, or come near
the Protector, yow will, to your power, after your wonted manner, be doing
good both to the public!; and fo many private perfones as you are able :
among others this gentlewoman I ftill recommend. Yow were a fpeciall in-
ftrument to fave the Churches of Brittaine from the mad folies of thefe Fifth
Monarchifts of the laft Parliament. I am glad yow are a member of this
Parliament ; for I doe affure myfelf you will be a fpeciall watchman in the
Houfe, and a continuall remembrancer to the Protector that the Church of
God in thefe dominions, (for which I have oft been witnefs of your fpeciall
zeall and care,) fhall fuffer no new detriment. We here had been much hurt
by the ignorance and error, if no the difdainfull neglect, of Eraftian men, had
it not been for the very great wifdome, equitie, and moderation of that ex
cellent man my Lord Broghill ; the mod gaining perfone to the intereft of
thefe who imployed him, of any that ever yet came from thence hither. Shall
the Prelbyterians in England and Ireland never winn to the exercife of their
Difcipline ? Shall that libertie be denyed us in England, which the Kings of
France, and Pole, or whoever fo much as tolerate our religion, hes ever
granted ? Shall all the labours of the Affemblie at Weftminfler, and fo many
Ordinances of both Houfes, turne all to fmoke ? It is worthie your laft fervice
to God and his Church, in your extreame old age, to endeavour to obtain of
the Protector fome reafon to the fervants of God in this point. Shall fuch
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men as my Lord Lauderdaill and Crawfurd languifh from year to year in fo
hard a condition ? While there is tyme, and you are not gone, doe fervice
to God and good men. Mr. Tate, Mr. Marthall, Mr. Whitaker, Mr. Vynes,
Mr. Henderfon, Mr. Gillefpie, and many more of our late dear friends are
gone : at once the reft of us will follow, and (land before our Mafter. Shall
there be no more word of our Solemn Oath and Covenant ? Is it turned to
Martin's Almanack ? Is it pulled down from the walls of all your churches ?
Will the Lord be filent for ever ? Can he alter with our changes ? We here
live as filently and peaceablie as any there could wifh us ; but for myfelfe,
while I live, by God's grace, I fhall never hold my peace to God in fecret
for Sion's fake, nor ceafe to pour out my complaint to you, whom I know
hes the lyke intereft in God and Sion as I have. Why is not your Pfalter
in England pradlifed as it is here, and no other ? Will you there never come
to any Order ? Is it poffible to keep the neglected confufions of the houfe
of God from ending in a greater confufion of the State than yet we have
feen ? Will armies of men or humane policie be able to hold off the hand
of God ? Bot I need not fpeak of thefe things to yow who knows them
better, and minds them more than myfelfe. The Lord blefs and be with
yow to your end.
Your much honouring friend and Servant,
Glafgow, September 6th 1656. R. BAILLIE.
FOB HIS REVEREND AND WEELL-BELOVED BROTHER MR. JAMES WOOD,
MINISTER AT ST. ANDREWES.
DEAR JAMES,
THESE are thanks for your kind and honeft anlwer, November 28th. Your
name (hall not be mentioned, nor more ufe made of your information than for
myfelfe, for the flagrant fcandall is notour, and a teftimoniall is neceflare by all
law and cuftom ; yet Mr. R. M[acward]'s high commendation will poffiblie
ferve for all ; it hath purchafed already too good a pedagogic to him. Thefe
people minds nought but faction, to plant all places in church, ftate, fchooles,
families, with men of their own ftamp, and no other, fay and fwear what they
will to the contrare. See to your Colledges as you may : they are fully
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mailers of Glafgow, Aberdeen, and almoft of Edinburgh. This commiflion
of Wariflone's, Greenhead, Mr. P. Gillefpie, and Mr. James Guthrie, will draw
our affaires to a quick crifis ; be this be weell at yow, it's like all the four
will be on their way to London. I thought it had not yet been time for
fome men to feek openly their due rewards for their great fervice. I doubt
nothing but one of their chief bufinefs will be to get, what Mr. P. Gil
lefpie had obtained, the whole Magiflracies in the land put in their partie's
hand. If they had this, Glafgow alone, befyde other fervices, could give
them fundry thoufand pounds a-year, as they wont to doe, to be difpofed on
without all count, as they thought fitteft. If the burroughes and fhyres fee
not to it, they will quicklie be their hard taikmafters. This equall com
mittee, to purge and plant without any account, is the totall deftruction of
our government. Will not Mr. Blair give ane honeft teftimony againfl it to
Cromwell, and all the world, before he die ? If he neglect this office to the
Church of Scotland, it will reflect much on his reputation. It feems
Mr. James Sharp muft procure a meffage for two or three of our mind to
decipher thefe men to the whole world, without more circumloquution. For
myfelf, I like no the barre, nor minds ever, but by violence, to fland before
it. If God be not mercifull, I think thefe men's malapart novations, and
feeking fhelter to their proud tyrannic from the fword that lyes on our necks,
will end in an Eraftian flaverie, pulled on us by thofe that were wont to be
moft zealous for our difcipline. Will Mr. Liviftoun bring, from Aberdeen's
neft, a profefled Independent to fucceed to Mr. A[ndrew] Rutherfoord's mif-
order, and Mr. Blair not upbraid him for it to his face ! I pity your prefiburs :
the Lord help, fuftaine, and direct yow. Bleffed be God, that continues
yow, or any man in thofe tymes, orthodoxe and honeft.
Your's,
December 8th 1656. R. B.
It will be needfull yow write a narrative of your tranflation from the New
Colledge to the Old, for your friends, to flop the mouth of our ill-willers.
Send me a copy, to make ufe of it for your advantage in thir bounds,
where there is moft need. It would be one of Mr. J. Sharp's chief cares to
gett a fettled order for our Univerfities, that Independent ignarfs may no
more, by Englifh orders be planted in them, for the corrupting of our youth.
328 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1657.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER, MR. SIMEON ASHE,
MINISTER AT LONDON ; OR MR. CALAMY.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THE kind exprefiions of tender affection, not only towards our Church,
but myfelf alfo, and diverfe of my brethren, which yow, with your brother
Mr. Calamy, have been pleafed now and then to write to me, give me con
fidence to acquaint yow and him, at this time, with the prefent condition of
our Church ; which now is fad enough, but is very like quicklie to be much
fadder, if the Lord be not pleafed to avert the imminent danger.
Our Brethren, who, thefe diverfe years, have troubled us fore with their
very bitter though mod needlefs divifions, are now openly before the world
come to exercife their threats upon us, and avowedly to doe at lad what long
we feared from them : They have fent up to the Protector their three grand
leaders to fupplicate for a libertie to opprefTe our poor Church, contrare to
all* reafon, confcience, and law. I gave yow an account how farr we went,
upon our paffionate defyre of any tollerable peace, to give them all fatiifac-
tion in our conference, November [16]55, weell near a whole moneth ; where
in how farr fundry of them declared themfelfes fatiffied, themfelfes and others
alfo can weell remember. Our firil and fundamentall quarrell was, that the
Commiffion of the Church had anfwered a Querie or two from the Parliament
and Committee of Eftates, anent the lawfullnefs of their making ufe of fuch
men in their armie, for the defence of the land againil forraign invaders, as
were fully reconciled to Church and State for any tranfgreffion fometimes
they had fallen into. Their plea here was, that we had Anfwered thefe
Queries fo as we were perfuaded in confcience was according to God's
word, the law of nature and nations, the conftant and never-controverted
practice of our land, or of any land, and the conftant practice of thefe who
now are in power, as much as any. This then was all their quarrell.
When they feared the Generall Aflemblie of St. Andrewes would approve
of thefe our Anfwers, and would not be gotten to countenance their new moft
dangerous and unnaturall both tenets and practices ; before that ever any
quefiion came to be debated, they gave in their Proteftation and declinature
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againft that AfTemblie, and the two other we had fince, as Null, upon reafons
which make null all Generall Aflemblies with us for ever, till they be matters
of them, and have them of their own framing. We were content, for our
pafiion to peace, to burie all thefe high infolencies, and never more to men
tion thofe controverfies, if fo they would live peaceablie with us in time to
come. This, in a publict write, they flatlie refufed, except two points farder
were granted to them, which were not before in queflion. Firft, That all the
Prefbyteries and Synods in Scotland fhould, for the time, be deprived of their
power of ordination and jurisdiction in all cafes that any man mould contro
vert ; and that ftanding committees of ane equall number of them and us,
they nameing their owne, and we ours, mould be appointed for finall deter
mination in all things controverted. In many of our Prelbyteries they have
none of their mind, and in fome Synods none ; in moft of the Prefbyteries
and Synods where they have any, their number is very few. The grant of
this demand to us was impoffible : We had no power to deprive all the Pref
byteries and Synods in Scotland of that power which Chrift, and the laws
both of our Church and State, did invefl them with ; nor thought we it
reafonable to give our brethren a negative voice in all the ecclefiaflick jurif-
diclion of Scotland. This was too rich a reward for the divifions they had
raifed, and fo long needlefllie keeped up ; and it was evident this conceffion
had not at all been for peace, but for the continuing and encreafing of our
differences. Yet all this would not content them ; but they preffed on us
another conceffion, that fince the pluralitie in Prefbyteries were men corrupt,
we fhould agree to them a freedome and exemption from all fubordination to
thofe judicatories in their prefent condition. This to us was a defperate
demand, to make us content to cut the finews of all Prefbyteriall govern
ment in our land till the Prefbyteries were fully conformed to their mind ;
nor could we inflict fo fore a punifhment on all the Kirk Judicatories before
they were heard to clear themfelfes of fo bafe an imputation. The prefby-
teries and fynods, to which fubordination was denyed, was none of the worfl
temper, but thofe chieflie of the very befl : Lothian and Fife, Edinburgh
and St. Andrewes, more nor Argyle or Caithnefs. Befide that, we in our
hearts were perfuaded the challenge was exceeding unjuft ; for notwithftand-
ing of much infirmitie in many of our prefbyteries, yet we dare fay the Pref
byteries were never in Scotland generallie fo good, and fo free of feen faults as
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they are this day, nor are church judicatories in any Reformed Church gene
rally fo good as ours, our Brethren themfelves being judges ; nor to any in
different beholder are thefe preflbyteries which our Brethren have gotten
made up fullie to their mind, in any thing better than others who are all
oppofite to them. Nor count we this challenge from our Brethren ingenuous,
fince we fee it evidentlie, that fo foone as they become matters of any pref-
byterie or fynod, as by their over-diligence they have made themfelfes
of fome, there is no more dinn in thefe places of purgeing : the infuffi-
ciencie or fcandals of their friends is no more heard of. When union could
not be obtained but on thefe and the like abfurd conditions, with fad hearts
we committed our caufe to God ; but our Brethren prefentlie did make their
addrefs to the Englifh Councell, petitioning to be creeled in a Committee to
vifite, to purge, and plant all the churches in the land. We did fupplicat
alfo to avert fo terrible and fo unexampled oppreflion, and, by the juftice of
that court, got it for the time declined : Ever fince, in their own wayes, both
clandeftine and open, they have been about the obtaining of that exceeding
irregular power. We knowing their refolution to deale with the Protector him-
felf for it, when our brother Mr. Sharp, on his friends occasions, went up
with my Lord Prefident Broghill, fome at Edinburgh gave him inftruc"lions
to guard, by right information, againft their attempts. Our Brethren, finding
that Mr. Sharp's reprefentations had marred all they thought to have ob
tained by letters and by their Independent agents, they have openlie fent
up the chief of their partie to defire, by the great favour they have them
felves every one of them with the Protector, and diverfe about him, a Com-
miffion to doe by force what we could not yield to them with our confent.
Their great plea will be, that the government of our corrupt Church mould
be put in the hands of them who are the Godly partie till the Church be
well purged. We would have taken this plea the better at our Brethren's
hand, if they had not feen, and confeffed with us, the great iniquitie, hypo-
crifie, and falfehood of this fame alleadgeance among yow to this day by the
whole circle of the Sectaries ; albeit never one of all the feels among yow did
arife to this enormitie of defire to have jurifdiction over their oppofites : they
were glad of a toleration for themfelfes, but a domineering power over thofe
who loved not to joyne with them, they never fought.
When the other year our Brethren had obtained ane ordinance for putting
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all the Magistrates of the (hyres and burroughs in the Godly, that is, their
partie's hands, the clamour was fo great againfl this injuftice, that quicklie the
Councell got that order recalled. When, about that fame tyme, thofe who are
now commiffioners had drawn a new large Covenant, farr different from the
Solemn League, to be fworn and fubfcryved by all whom they mould admit to
then* Godly partie, it was fo hatefull to the Englifh Councell, and fo grievous
to many of their own fide, that they were forced to lay it afide ; but this their
laft defigne which now they come to reprefent to the Protector, (however,
we doubt not, in low, foft, ambiguous words, yet, in effect;, importing
the ruine of our Church government,) will be found worfe than any thing
which lately they have defigned.
This much I thought fitt to fignifie to yow, and a few which yow and Mr.
Calamy think meet to acquaint with it : Mr. Sharp can fully, and will faith
fully report the truth of every particular. Sometimes yow have written fad
letters to us for our help, by our prayers to God, and induftrie with men,
againft the Malignant and Epifcopall partie : you know we were never inlak-
ing to yow to the uttermoft of our power ; our diflrefs now is great, we de-
fyre your compaflion, your prayers to God for us, and your countenance
to our caufe, when yow know it may profit us, and not hurt yourfelfes.
We are not fo much feared that the-naofl unreafonable defyres of our Breth
ren can be granted, by any of farre leffe underflanding and juftice than
thefe who now have audience with the Protector, as that, by our Brethren's
fuggeftions and importunitie, both they and we, to the ruine of our dear-
coft Ecclefiaftick liberties, be put under a new Eraflian government, which
mail end in perfecution of thofe who are truly godly among us. If by
your countenance and counfell to Mr. Sharp, or by your dealing with your
friends about the Protector, (if fo be yow have any,) yow can help to keep
this very dangerous ftorme from us, yow mail doe an acceptable fervice to
God, and a great good deed to our groaning Church, and a feafonable favour
to all of us here who defyre, in this hard tyme, to be faithfull to God, and the
truft he hath committed to our keeping. Expecting herein a comfortable
anfwer, I reft
Your loving Brother in the Lord,
January 12th 1657. R. B.
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(D.) FOB THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL HIS ASSURED FRIEND,
MR. FRANCIS Rous.
RIGHT WORSHIPFULL,
THE conftancie of your kindnefs towards me, which from tyme to tyme
yow are pleafed to fignifie, in this feafon, when old friendftiip by the moft is
buried in oblivion, makes me ftill confident to ufe with yow my wonted
libertie. I hope what I wrote fome five moneths agoe with Miftrefs Lammie,
yow did receave. The purpofe of my prefent writing is to acquaint yow
with the imminent danger of the Church of Scotland, (which I know yow
have fmcerely loved and highly prized,) to be pitifullie oppreft and enflaved
to a few of our brethren, who long have vexed us with their moft caufelefs
divifions ; and when we have been willing for peace caufe to have paft by
all their former (as we efteemed) high mifdemeanours, yet flatly they refufed
pe,ace, unlefs on new conditions, which we never heard of, nor expected to
have heard of: 1. That they behoved to be freed from all fubordination to
our Prefbyteries and Synods till they were new conftitute and purged :
2. That, for the interim, the whole jurifdiction of the Church, in every thing
controverted, (hould be put in the hand of a committee, confiding of an
equall number of them, to be named by themfelfes, and of us, to be named by
ourfelfes, who mould finallie determine in all queflions anent purgeing and
planting of Churches, and every thing elfe that concerned the whole Church.
The firft is the totall fubverfion of our Prefbyteriall government, on a very
injurious and falfe pretence, that fubordination muft be denyed, not to the
word or weakeft of our Prefbyteries and Synods, bot the very beft, from
which they are moft averfe, as thofe of Lothian and Fyfe. That our breth
ren would have broken all in pieces our Church government by weaker and
worfe pretences than profefTed Independents we would never have expected ;
but that they would have attempted, as they doe in their fecond demand,
the ufurpation of all Ecclefiaftick jurisdiction to themfelfes, a fair fmaller and
more inconfiderable faction among us than the Independents are among yow,
we did never dreame till themfelfes did openly profefs it ; and when we did
refufe it, they fupplicat the Counfell here to be inverted in it ; and now when
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the juftice of that court hes rejected their ftrange delire, they have aflumed
the boldnefs to prefent in effect, albeit in more low, foft, and ambiguous
words, the fame defires to the Protector himfelf. If any of your feels there
would not only petition for a toleration to themfelfes, but alfo the priviledge
to have the full Eccleliaftick jurifdiction over the land, I doubt not their defire
would be rejected with fcorn, though it were fweetened with a claufe to have
an equall number of others joyned with them, whom yet they know affured-
ly would never affociat with them in any fuch work. Such an enormous
phanfie was never yet proponed by any of your heteroclites ; yet the prefent
defyre of our brethren feems to be very like, certainly to the body of this
land, even to thefe who are efteemed juftly, as we conceave, the mod godly
in it, it would be one of the heaviefl church-grievances that ever yet befell
them, nothing lighter than that of prelates tyranny, the fountain of all our
late troubles. We are no wayes feared that the Protector's juftice and
wifdome can give ear to any fuch motion, if he were rightly informed ; but
we are feared indeed, that our brethren, by the great favour they have with
fundrie there, and their great diligence and boldnefs to minnforme, may ob-
taine, as the refult of their unhappy, ralh, unadvyfed, and caufelefs conten
tions with us, fome one thing or other that may be very dolorous to our
nation, and vexatious to the moil of the truely godlie in our land. There is
a brother of ours there, Mr. James Sharp, who can give full and true infor
mation of all things which concerne our prefent condition : I wifh yow had
fome time with him. When you have heard him, I put no queftion but the
love yow have to God and his truth, and the refpect yow have to the peace
of the Church of Scotland, and the quiet of the nation, (which for the tyme
is fo quiet as any could wifh, if thefe men could but reft, and go about their
own ftation,) yow will be willing, in this tyme of our diftrefs and danger
from our owne, (whom leaft it became, of all men, to have put us to this
vexation,) to fpeak a word for us to the Protector, that at leaft we may be
fecured from the incroachments of thefe reftlefs men, who, fo long as they
expect countenance and afliftance from him, will never ceafe to put their
quiet neighbours to new troubles. I would be loath to marre them in any
favour they could defyre in other things, for the men are my good friends in
all things perfonall and private ; but the crulhing of their forefaid defigne, I
count it pietie and juftice, their own good, the Protector's honour, the good
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and peace of our land, whereto (by all the entres yow have been pleafed to
grant unto me in your affection) I humbly befeek yow to contribute what
yow may, that with the greater cheerfullnefs I and many more here may con
tinue to pray for your remaining yet fometime upon earth, for the perfecting
of all yow have hi hand, for the glory of God and the good of his whole
Church. So doe I truely pray,
SIR,
Who am your affeclionat and moft honoring Friend,
January 16th 165?. R. BAILLIE.
FOB HIS REVEREND AND WELL-BELOVED BROTHER MR. ROBERT DOUGLASS,
MINISTER AT EDINBURGH.
SIR,
As yow defired, fo I have written my fenfe : as it is, if yow miflyke it
ca(l it in the fire ; if yow defire any thing eiked, or paired, or changed, I
mail doe it ; if yow let it goe up, defire Mr. James [Sharp] to conceall, fo
fair as may be, my name ; for my name, I know, is unluckie and unfavorie
to thofe in power there, nor like I myfelfe any thing the worfe for that.
God help and guide yow.
Your's to power,
January 18th 1657. R. B.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND WELL-BELOVED BROTHER MR. JAMES SHARP,
MINISTER AT CRAILL.*
JAMES,
Yow fee what I have written in the inclofed, at the defire of our friends
here ; if they miflyke my writes, I have defired them to fupprefs them ; if
otherwayes, to fend them to yow. If yow, on the place, think fitt to deliver
4 It seems scarcely necessary to remark that Mr. James Sharp, Minister of Crail, who appears
so prominently as the agent of the Resolutioners, afterwards became Archbishop of St. Andrews.
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them, either to thofe they are directed to, or to the fire, doe as yow think
fitt ; only I defyre, fo farr as may be, my name to be fuppreffed ; for yow
know, beiide elder quarells, how oft my name flands printed in Mr. Love's
proceffe ;5 fo intreat thofe to whom yow delyver my letters to keep them to
themfelfes, elfe my name may hurt yow, and the caufe yow have in hand.
I hope yow mail, by God's help, eafily get the defyres of thofe headie men
cruflied ; but all my fear is, that the end of your flrife will be the Protector's
determination to fubject our poor Church to fome new Eraftian modell, which
(hall be very grievous, albeit farr more tolerable than the tyrannik Turkilh
yoke of the Proteftors. If for the averting of this mifchief, yow finde it
neceffar to caufe fend up for any more, I think M. R. D., and M. J. W.,
mall be fufficient : if there were need of more, I think G. H., or J. F., or
R. K. of H.6 might doe weell. If yow come fpeed in the maine, I wifh yow
laboured to get abolifhed that very unjuft commiflion of vifiting the Univer-
fities ; and that which M. P. Gpllefpie] did obtaine, that no Independent
mould violently take the church and flipend of any parifh, as was done in
Kilbryde and Leinzie, and much lefs that fuch mould take up our Univerfi-
ties, as they have done Aberdeene, etc. I pray God help yow and guide
yow ; yow had need of a long fpoone :7 truft no words nor faces, for all
men are liars.
Your's, R. B.
January 18th 1657.
FOR ME [MR, ROBERT BAILLIE].
RIGHT REVEREND SIR,
BECAUSE I fear I did it not before, I thought fitt now to mow yow, that
your old friend, my Lord Warriftone, did, in that conference before the Pro
tector, affirme, (while he was fpeaking of the evill effects of the Refolutions,)
5 Vide supra, foot-note p. 105.
6 These initials stand for Mr. Robert Douglas, Mr. James Wood, and George Hutcheson,
James Fergusson, and Robert Ker of Haddington
7 " He should have a long-shafted spoon that sups kail with the devil/' — (David Fergus-
son's Scottish Proverbs. Edin. 1641, 4to.) Had Baillie sufficiently known his correspondent,
he might have taken this Proverb to himself.
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that there was one of the Refolutioners, who, in the lad conference for union,
faid, That the reafon why he ftucke fo clofe to thefe Refolutions was, that he
might keep himfelf in a capacity to act for the King when opportunitie
fhould offer ; and when it was anfwered by Mr. James Sharp, That he hoped
that would not be made good ; in his reply he did correct it thus, It was true
it was not publickly fpoken, but one did fpeak it privately to him. I am
fearing, by what I have heard of late, yow may be the man that Warriftone
did meane ; fo yow may think upon it, and make your own ufe of it. If
yow have had any thing lately from Edinburgh, or if Mr. Patrick Gillefpie be
come home, or coming before the reft, let me know, who am
Your moft affectionat Brother to ferve yow,
Hafilhead, March 5th 1657. PA. COLVILL.
FOR MR. JAMES SHARP.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
THIS is my tbird ; I think it no reafon yow (hould be burdened with par
ticular anfuers, only I defyre to know, by a word in your's to the Brethren of
Edinburgh, that mine did come to your hands. Yow fee the enclofed. If I
were with Warriftone I would fay to him for anfwer : 1. That his profeflions
to me conftantly, fince he was a child, and my fcholler, were of fo great friend-
fliip, and that fuch offices of uninterrupted kindnefs had allwayes paft mutu
ally betwixt us, that I could never have thought, that for any caufe whatfo-
ever, he would have fpoken of me to any living, much lefs before the Protec
tor, words which tended fo exceedingly to my hurt, without the leaft fignifi-
cation ever to myfelf, directly or indirectly, that he harboured any fuch
thoughts of me. 2. The thing that I am informed (by this letter of a wor
thy Brother,) he did fpeak, if truely he meaned it of me, (whereof my old and
continuing refpects to him make me doubt,) is exceeding falfe; for I doe
utterly deny, that in all that long, and weell near a moneth's conference, there
was one word fpoken by me, or any other, that looked any thing like the
fpeech here written, to my knowledge ; nor was there any occafion of it, for
in my judgment, as he weell knows, his new fingular tenets in the Publict
Refolutions were no more prejudiciall to the late King than they are to the
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prefent Protector, and to all that ever were or are in power in any nation, or
are like to be hereafter on this earth. 3. That not only that which he fpoke
of our publick conference was utterly falfe, as himfelf granted upon your re
ply ; but alfo, that in any private conference I did ever fay any fuch thing
to him, is no leffe untrue, as I am ready to depone upon oath ; and I hope
my pofitive negation will be as much believed, where I am known, as fome
other men's affirmation without proofe. 4. It hes never been the Protector's
pleafure to trouble any man for his fimple judgment or heart's affection in
queftions anent the Covenant, efpeciallie where perfons did live peaceably
and without all offence : Now, as for my peaceable and inoffenfive living
hitherto, if I were put to an inqueift even of thofe who differ from me in
judgement of the Publick Refolutions, I hope I would pafs with alfe good a
report as others of my neighbours. 5. I have had many free private dif-
courfes with my Lord Warriftone, thefe twenty-nyne yeares, as ufe to be among
mofl intime and more than ordinarily familiar friends, but that one which I
fufpect he meaned in his fpeech, (if it related at all to me,) was long before
our laft conference ; and, to my beft remembrance, all that then I faid
might have been fpoken in the Protector's owne audience, without all offence,
for it was hot to this purpofe, That a noble friend of his and mine had told
me of a late diftinction of his, which I defired to underftand from himfelf,
to witt, that he was clear, notwith (landing of our League and Covenant, of
the lawfullnefs to change our prefent civill government, fo farr as concerned
the terminus a quo, but that he was not clear of the lawfullnefs to joyne with
the prefent terminus ad quern. Herein I defyred to be cleared by him ; as
oft times, in fuch queftions, I was wont to feek and receave light from him.
While I was declareing to him the grounds of my fcruple only upon the
terminus a quo, and of my full clearnefs in the terminus ad quern, without
any fcruple of confcience, if I were loofed from the former ; and while he
was beginning to mew me how I might be loofed from it, a gentleman did
come in to him, and interrupted us, that we proceeded no farder. Since
which time, to my beft remembrance, I had no difcourfe with him, private or
publick, concerning any ferious buffinefs ; and why he mould have fpoken
before the Protector, of this, my proponeing to him alone, fo innocent and
fimple a cafe of confcience only for my own fatiffaction, and why he mould
have fo fearfully metamorphofed it, I cannot conjecture. Surely if any
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other man's raflinefs, (for malice, I know no man living that profefTes to have
it at me,) had brought me to any trouble, either for my words or deeds, I
would have addrefled myfelf to none fooner than my Lord Warriftone for
his counfell and afliftance ; as he may remember, in his late diftrefles, I had
been one of his fafteft friends.
This, and much more to this purpofe, I would fay to him if I were near
him ; which, as yow find occafion and expediencie, I wifh yow did commu-
nicat unto him, or any other, for my clearing from his unadvyfed fpeech, if
fo be he will expone it of me ; whereof yet I doubt. Praying God to help
yow in your very hard, dangerous, and vexatious tafk, I reft,
Your's,
Glafgow, March 9th 1657. R. BAILLIE.
(J.) FOR THE RIGHT REVEREND MR. ROBERT BAILY, PROFESSOR OF
DIVINITY IN GLASGOW.1
•
REVEREND AND MUCH RESPECTIT, London, March 21ft 1657.
YOUR third I receaved yefterday ; and that I fent no returne to your former
two, I hope will not be imputed to my neglect of the refpects I owe and
bear to yow, when yow confidder that, in my letters to Edinburgh, I give
notice of the recept of your's ; and that the imployment I am putt upon doeth
fo take up my time, as that I have much a doe to give the full account which
is neceflarie of all paflages relating to our publick concernements to the corre-
fpondents at Edinburgh, by whom I truft ther is fuch notice given to thefe
of our judgement, and to yourfelve in particular, of the ftate of matters heir,
as may plead for my omiffions in making thefe particular returnes to letters
fent to me, which are in my delire to doe, could my leafure allowe it. Sir, I
delivered your letter to M[afte]rs Calamy and A(h, which was acceptable to
them ; and have often inquired for Mr. Rows, but by reafon of his infirmi-
tie, which occafioneth his feldom beeng in town, I have not as yett had the
opportunity of meeting with him ; which caufed my delay of wreating to yow
befor this. As to the matter of your laft, I fhall breifly relate to yow what
is frefti upon my memorie of the ground of that report, which your worthie
1 From the Orig.—(Wodrow MSS. Folio, Vol. XLIX. No. 4.)
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Brother fignifies unto yow. While in our debate befor his Highnefs, I had
occafion to bring for the proof of my affertion, that ther was that printed
to the world by us which did make it out, and was not anfweared by them to
this day : The Lord Wariftoun, among other particulars, in his reply, was
pleafit to fay, that they had printed that which we had not anfweared to this
day ; which was, that we had aflerted, that one of the reafons why we
could not difclaim (he Publick Refolutions was, leaft heirby we might barr
the body of the land from ryling in armes for the affiftance of the King, in
cafe of his inwafion. Whyl I was fpeaking in anfwear, I took notice of that
inftance, poling the Lord Wariftoun if he could awerr that ther was any
Judicature of our Church which pafled any acl or declaration to that purpofe.
He anfweared, He did not charge any of the Church Judicatures with it, he
had only fayed that one of our judgement had profefled fo much in privat to
him, which they had putt in print, and was not takin notice of by us. I
anfweared, That what was fpoken by the fuggeftion of- any one in privat to
him, I knew not, nether came I hither to make anfwear for it ; but if he
could alleadge any thing to that purpofe of the Judicatures, I was ready to
make my reply according to my knowledge ; but I left it to be confidered,
how impertinent and bloody fuch an allegation was in fuch an audience,
upon the privat fuggeftion of any one perfon. This is the truth of the
whole which pafled as to that, which I think will not be denyed by the Pro-
tefters heir. If the Lord Wariftoun did mean yow, I think he hath dealte
injurioufly with yow upon many accounts ; but he did not name yow then,
nether have I fince heard, by any in this place, yow wer the man he aimed
at. Howbeit, I did this day read your letter to one, who hath promifed the
nixt week to acquaint the Lord Wariftoun with it. I hope it mall not
much trouble yow, that through an inconfiderat heat, fuch an expreflion was
uttered by the Lord Warirtoun which did ftrike at yow, when yow con-
fidder, that all the arguments hitherto brought by them heir, after a full hear
ing, have been no other then reproaches and calumnies upon the conftitution,
acts, and the minifters of the Judicatures of our Church ; though, blifled be
God, they have litle advantaged ther own caufe, or prejudiced yow, and
the other honeft men who ftand for the intereft of Chrift, with unbyafled and
rationall men heir. And I may fay it upon ground, that ther are none of
the Prefbyterian judgement, in and about London, who doe not difown them,
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and exprefs ther greif for ther fcandalous way ; and that they are owned
and befreindit by none but fuch whofe principles lead them to oppofe that
intereft, which we are bound to maintain and plead for. Our holy and wife
Lord who is the living protector of his Church knoweth how to plead his
own caufe, and to overrule the rage they have exprefled, the reproaches they
have caft upon our poor Church, and to order the fadd exercifes his fervants
are putt to becaufe of thefe, for the bed : faythfull is He who hath promifed ;
and that I may be kept up by his ftrength, under this tafk, which yow
truelie terme hard, dangerous, and wexatious, your prayers are expectit
by him who commends yow to the grace which can ftablim and perfect
yow ; and is, SIR,
Your werie loving Brother in Chrift,
JA. SHARP.
The relation of our late pafiages I leave to what may be given yow from
Edinburgh.
A PARCEL OF A LETTER TO MR. JAMES HAMILTOUN.
HOWEVER, for fecuritie hereafter, I pray that no fyllab come to me from
yow that yow care all in the Meal-inerket did know, fo Mr. Sharp will be at
eafe, and I and yow will need no excufe for our fluarie and rafli efficliencie ;
yet I fear our too great and too wife filence is our greateft fin. I fee by the
Englifh letters, which doubtlefs yow all mull know, wherein yet my name
needs not be heard, that as the mod articles of the City's Remonflrance for
kingfliip are pad, nemine contradicente, fo efpeciallie that of religion, as
weell for us in Scotland as them in England, that the publicklie profefled
(hall be the Chriftian proteftant, according to the Scriptures ; whereby all our
Confeflions and Covenants, and abfolutely all forms and modells befide the
text of Scripture, are abolifhed. Alfo, that who differ from thir mall be pro
tected, if they worfhip God in Jefus Chrift, and doe no civill injurie to the
peace, which I think all the feels profefs, Independents, Anabaptifts, Anti-
nomians, Familifts, Seekers, Arminians, Lutherans, Socinians, moft of the
Quakers. The only excepted are Poperie, Prelacie, and LicentioufnefTe in
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the abftract : but feeing popifh, prelaticall, and licentious men profefTe the
qualification, and will give fecuritie for this, their exclufion feems to be but
of freewill, which is not durable. That this fhould be concluded in a Civill
judicatorie for Scotland by fo many of our Nationall commiffioners, nemine
contradicente, and in prefence of our chief Proteftors and grand Remon-
flrators, Argyle, War[iftone,] J. G[uthrie,] P. Gpllefpie,] with their abfolute
filence, when they are clamouring the Protector for a number of fmall and
very falfe accufations of our Church, not long ago would have been counted
a wonder, if not limply impoffible. Yea, 1 fear we be not free, that our
Commiflioner joins fully, fo far as we know, in that filence with them : too
great declining of perfecution has never been the fureft way to efcape it.
Any counfell to yow there, much my wifer and better, I offer not. God
help and direct yow.
Your's,
March 30th 1657. , R. B.
(K.) FOR THE RIGHT REVEREND MR. ROBERT BAILYE, PROFESSOR OF
DIVINITY IN GLASGOW.*
REVEREND SIR,
I HAVE receaved laitly three letters from yow, exprefiing the great re-
centment yourfelve and others have of the Provifo paft heir concerning qua
lifications, etc. It is known what endeavours I ufit to praevent the paffing
of it ; and, if our freinds had been in the Houfe, or, as the Houfe was at
that time conflituted, had that bufines been carried by reafon, and not by
violence and faction, the motioning of it had been explodit with fhame. I
know not what may be the apprehenfions of thefe with yow of the confe-
quences of it, and though I find that the fticklin of one heir for the paffing
of it was mainly with an eye to your citie ; yet I doe not think that the agi
tators have reached all ther defyres by it, and am of the mind that it mail tend
to ther difadvantage, beeng a demonflrable evidence of ther fpirit and way to
2 From the Orig. (Wodrow MSS. Fol. Vol. XLIX. No. 5.) — The passage at the end, in
serted within brackets, appears to have been purposely omitted in Baillie's MS. In this,
and the preceding letter of Sharp, his own orthography is retained.
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all fober men heir, who fee clearlie they drive at domination and rule, and
can be fatiffied with nothing lefle ; and doe conceive, that for all ther being
reputed with yow that they have overactit and outwitted fome heir, yet
they have not kythed great policy as to this, by making ufe of the advant
age they had at that time, fo as at the firfl to ftretch matters to the highefl
pinn. Sir, my opinion is, that your people would doe well to compofe them-
felves to filence and patience as to what is pail. The lefle notice they take
of it, or noife be made about it, the lefle fear they may have of the praeju-
dices of it. Were yow heir at the fource of effaires, yow would fee that
the Proteflors and ther abettors have not fuch caufe to boaft and bragg as
they doe. It is fitt they doe fo, but good for us to wait on God. Doe not
think that the late tranfactions heir will be the meafure and rule of future
actings in reference to us. Beleeve it, ther will be a greater change then
fome doe imagin, though it is not to be expected that we can have a juft
fatiffaclion to our defires in reference to our eftabliftied difciplin ; yet doe
not think that our necks fhall be put under the yoak of thefe men.
I had of late an large conference with the Secretary of State, and made men
tion of the cafe of your Citty in particular. He promifed to me that fome-
wliat would be done fpeedilie for rectifying of matters. If yow marre not your
own bufines by unfeafonable ftirring, and not keeping clofe what may be
fuggefted to yow as a remedie for the prefent, that may be done fhortlie which
will give fatiffaction ; towards which I mail not be wanting in my endeavours,
fo far as they can reach : I cannot wye [vie] with your grandee Patrick.
[What yow did hint of your beeng caution for your Town, I did not take up
till 2 or 3 dayes agone, when I was fo prefled by your Bailie heir, that he
would thruft into my pockett five peeces, that I might not come from Lon
don without a pocket-watch. I was furprifed with the motion, and could
not obtain of him to take them back. Yow would doe me a favour to wreat
to him that he may take them from me, for I know not upon what account
they are given. I have not been ufit to the lyke, and without budding, if I
could ferve the intereft of honeft men with yow, I am very free to it.]
The Spirit of counfail and courage reft upon yow. I am Your's,
JA. SHARP.
London, July 28th 1657.
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Yow may have a frefh allarum by the agitators procuring of a commit
tee, of which the mod are Independents, and favourers of them, to hear our
differences, and certify ther opinion to the Councill : but let it not trouble
yow ; that engyne, I truft, throw the Lord's mercie, fliall be countermindit.
(F.) FOR MB. JAMES SHARP.
JAMES,
IT feemes yow are a very groffe ignaro that can no fo much as read
Arabick letters ; yet it's good yow can guefle at their fenfe. Your neigh
bour Patrick Gillefpie's difeafe, is the maine thing has been here talked of
thefe three weeks. For myfelfe, I wilhe his perfon in all things weell ;
however, I have exceedinglie miflyked his way. If the Lord at this time
remove him, we are in hazard to have his place quicklie filled with a worfe.
Warifloun's reftlefs diligence will labour his friends there to put in one of
his owne humour. Patrick Gillefpie's wife will ply her hufband's friends,
Dr. Owen, etc. to obtain the Protector's order to our Councell here, to com
mand us to make ane election of ane other ; but the faction in our bounds
are like, if they can Hart in time, to ufe all poflible means for a third. The
brethren here who correfpond with yow, as alfo your friends in Fife, conceive
it a matter of very great concernment to have that Colledge out of the Pro-
teftors hands, if poffible : what way yow may guard againft the two or three
parties moving there, yow beft know. It is my with and others yow did
aflay to obtaine from Secretary Thurloe, and others there, yea, if yow can
in time, from my Lord Broghill in Ireland,3 fuch letters to the leaders of the
Councell here, that they might be pleafed to call for Mr. Dowglafs and Mr.
Dickfon, and follow their opinion in planting of that place ; if fo, they mail
nominate a man whom they themfelves, and all who are for the Prefbyterian
way in both nations, (hall acknowledge to be als fitt for that charge, and alfe
3 Roger Boyle, third son of the Earl of Cork, was created Baron of Broghill in 1628, before
he was seven years of age. After the death of Charles the First, having been gained over by
Cromwell, he distinguished himself by his services in Ireland ; and was persuaded to come for
one year, to Scotland in 1655.1656, as President of the Council: Vide supra, pp. 315,
321, 325. In 1660, he was created Earl of Orrery, and died in 1679, aged 58.
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acceptable to the Protector as any in all this land :4 Mr. Dowglafs, Mr.
Wood, myfelf and others, are of this opinion. If yow in this alfo can marre
the Proteflors defigne, and further ours, it will be a notable fervice ; and we
all mall be much bound to yow for it. The way and means to accomplifh it,
we leave to yourfelf : we know it will be the harder to perform, that we
think it expedient to keep up the man's name for the time. I hope yow
will be loath to returne before the agitators goe before yow : thereafter come
fo foone as yow will, not before. I find already the great diligence of the
faction to provide that place; doe your bed to marre them. The Lord
help yow to doe out your vexatious fervice with fuccefle, and return yow
fafe to us.
Read what I have written at Mr. Dowglafs's defire to Mr. Rous: clofe and
dely ver it if yow think fitt. Forget not the buflinefs of our Town.
FOR MB. Rous.
SIR,
I DID expect to have heard from yow with your Grandchild, when yow fent
him to us. However, upon my many obligations to yow, from his firft com
ing to this time, I have, (as I hope he will bear me witnefs,) been fo carefull
of him in his perfon, fludies, company, dyet, and all things concerned him, as
it lay in my power. I purpofe, God willing, to continue my overfight of him,
and am glad to have the occafion to doe fervice to one of your fo near rela
tions : This is all I have for the time to fignifie to yow. Only one word concern
ing our brother Mr. Sharp ; that fo farr as yow may be pleafed to give credit,
not fo much to me, as to the farr mod part of the gracious minifters and people
in Scotland, what he has delivered in our printed Reprefentation5, and from
time to time in write to the Councell, and others, there is to our bed know
ledge the very truth, unjuflly contradicted by thefe men who have broken the
peace of our Church, and continue, by their obftinate error, and refllefs pur-
fuing of their oppreffive delignes, to keep our dangerous rents from all pofli-
4 Baillie here points at the nomination of Sharp to be Principal of the College of Glasgow.
5 " A True Representation of the Rise, Progress, and state of the present Divisions of the
Church of Scotland. London, printed in the year 1(557," 4to, pp. 58. This tract, accord
ing to Baillie, (infra p. 352,) was written by James Wood.
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bilitie of healing. Had not your wifdome and equitie there been pleafed to
have opened one ear to our anfuers, we were afrayed they fhould, by your
power, before this have brought on a heavy and very caufelefs perfecution
on us. As in God's mercy to us yow have not hitherto concurred with
their unhappie propofals, however gilded with fpecious pretences, fo our
truft is in God, that he will not permitt yow hereafter to affifl them, without
all caufe, to put us to farder griefe and trouble. Without your help they
have thefe diverfe years vexed us to purpofe.
I will hold you no longer at this time, but heartily falutes yow, praying
that the Lord would continue yow yet fome tyme to be inftrumentall, with
thefe who here have power, for the good of them in both Nations who, in
quietnefs, delire to ferve the Lord Jefus in all fincerity of heart. So prays
Your very loving and much honouring freind and Servant,
September 23d [1657 .] R. BAILLIE.
(O.) FOB MR. R. BAILLIE.
SIB,
BEING now tick, I make ufe of the hand of another, and doe thank yow
for the letter yow fent me, wherein yow expreffe fo much care towards one
in regard of his relation to me. But if yow knew the manner of fending him
to Glafgow, yow would not have thought it ftrange that he was not recom
mended to yow ; for, upon fome reafons, I did put him away from mine own
care, and delivered him over to one who was heretofore Clerk to the Com
mittee for the Univerfities wherein I had the chair, as perchance yow may
remember, who did take the care of providing for him : He, meeting
with Mr. Gillefpie here, learned of him the way of the College, and of
bringing him into it, not knowing your intereft therein, but only as a Divinitie
Profeflbr there. But now yow have gone fo farr to take notice of him in
refpecl of me, I muft acknowledge myfelf ingaged to yow, and fhall defyre
yow to continue this charitie to him, he being there upon his good behaviour,
without which he is like to be loft both with God and man.
As for your publick bulinefs, I am forie that there are fuch differences be
tween thofe that are fo near in fpirit, and defire heartily that to the unitie of
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the fpirit there might be added the bond of peace. True it is, there have been
fuch differences heretofore between faints, and as great as Barnabas and Paul ;
but they are rather for lamentation than imitation ; yet howfoever, it is to be
hoped God will produce a good effect out of them, who turns all things to
good for his children. As for my part, I was not particularly ingaged on
either fide, neither will I as to taking parties, but only apply myfelf to truth
and peace. When the bufinefs had been long in hand, then Mr. Sharp
acquainted me concerning the matter of the Commiffioners, and the inequall
interefl of them. Hereupon I made fuch application, that it was returned to
me for an anfwer, that there wes not fuch inequalitie in them ; and hereupon
I fell prefently into my ficknefs, and fo had not opportunitie to act further in
it perfonallie, but am ready, if God (hall give power and opportunitie, to ad
vance fuch a work of truth and peace as this is ; and fo recommending yow
and your Church to the grace and favour of God, and to his Spirit of unity,
peace, and holinefs, and remaines,
Your very faithful Friend to ferve yow,
Whitehall, 10th [October] 1657. F. Rous.
(L.) [FOR MR. R. BAILLIE.] LONDON, OCTOBER 13-TH 1657.
REVEREND SIR,
YOUR'S from Edinburgh I did receive, but becaufe the fubject to which
the purpofe of it did relate, hath been fince in another condition than was
fuppofed at the writting of it, I thought yow would the more eafily difpenfe
with my delay to give yow a return to it. Your's of September 29th came
not to my hand till October 12th in the afternoon, and that cafuallie. I had
taken my leave of his Highnefs that day in the morning, and had your letter
come fooner, I had an opportunity to have fpoke a word for our friends in
that particular ; however, upon the receipt of your's, I went ftraight to a
fignificant perfon of the Councell, of whofe active friendfhip I have had many
proofs ; I did acquaint him with the bufinefs : he bade me give to him the
full (late of the matter in writing. Accordingly I did draw [it] in paper, with
the defire for a prefent remedie exprefled in your letter : I inclofed the copie
of his Highnefs letter yow fent to me. I waited the opportunity of putting it
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into his hand ; when I faw he was to fpeak to other members of the Councell,
and probably to his Highnefs, I befought him to move effectually in it ; which
he promifed to doe, and give me ane account to-morrow. That letter hath
been furreptitioufly purchafed, I know by what inftrument ; it could not have
paffed here by the knowledge of the Councell ; howbeit the Lord may be
pleafed to order that particular (as he hath done other paffages of their ftick-
ling here) for a further difcoverie of the practicating domineering fpirit of
thefe men, to render them lefle capable to opprefle, if the honefl men of
your Toune do fland to the maintaining of their juft rights, and ply the Coun
cell in Scotland. I know by letters from fome of them lately fent to leading
perfons here, that they have both friends there and here, and hope that your
Metropolitan (hall not be able to bring them under his yoke : It might have
been expected, that when that letter was obtained, he was in fuch a condition
as might have barred violent, carnall, and revengefull intendments ; and his
co-agitators mould have feen the Lord's rebuke of their injurious wayes. He
intended to be at home before the day of election ; but being under the
Lord's arreifl, he would interpofe by his agents for this delay.
I have nothing now to doe at London, where my flay and toill hath been fo
long that I may be excufed (when the Lord hath now defeated all the afTaults
of that faction for Church-power) if I meditate a fpeedy return ; which I mall
delay till the next week, that I may doe what I can for the fervice of your
honeft men. I was not forgetfull of them when I had occalion to fpeak with
Mr. Secretary, and others of the Councell, thefe weeks pafl; and believe it, they
have a prettie good fenfe of their condition, and I think they will evidence it.
I fuppofe yow have ane account from Edinburgh, to what paffes our publick
bufinefs is brought, fo that I may fpare anie more writing of it. Only I fhall
prevent the time of my difcharge of the Protector's order to me, at his very
civile dimiffion of me, in one particular, in that he named yow as one of our
Brethren to whom he defired twice to be remembered by me at my returne.
I fent your letter by a fure hand to Mr. Rous, who ftayes in the countrey,
and hath not been fince at Whitehall. I doe remember my refpects to your
R[everend] colleagues, Mr. George Young and Mr. Hew Blair. The Spirit
of the Lord Jefus reft upon yow. I am, Sir,
Your's,
JA. SHARP.
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I receaved one from your baillie, James Pollock, and was mindfull of his
defire fignified by it, though I could not prevent what was in a clancular way
here drawne from the Protector to your Towne's prejudice ; which may be in
time yet remedied. Thefe who covet to rule among yow, I think doe not
expect to have it by your good will. I pray yow excufe my not fending a
particular returne to him, to whom I defire my fervice to be remembred ; his
ufage of me while he was here, lyeth yet upon my flomack. Yow know how
it mav be talked of. But I lhall forbear till meeting.
(M.) [FoR MR. R. BAILLIE.]
f
REVEREND SIR,
Your's of November 9th, I receaved the 20th. I thought yow had gott
notice before this what was done by the Councell here in reference to the
Town of Glafgow. Upon my reprefentation of their cafe in paper to fome of
the Councell, they dealt fo effectually in the bufinefs, as by the Councell's
order here, it is whollie referred to be determined by the Councell of Scot
land, but with this exprefs caveat, that they doe nothing to the infringement
of the liberties of that burgh. This was told by one of the Councell two
weeks agoe, but after the receipt of your letter I did fpeak this day with Mr.
Secretary concerning it, who hath afiured, that it is fo as above written ; which
is the expreffion in terminis uttered by him to me this afternoon. If Mr.
Gillefpie, upon his return, make any buftling in that matter, your honed men
need not be difcouraged from profecuting their jufl rights by all he can doe,
either there or here. Let them ufe their moyen with their friends in the
Councell, at Edinburgh ; and if they apprehend any hazard by the power of
Ibme there, let them labour for a delay of hearing of the bufinefs before the
Councell till it pleafe the Lord to bring me home, (which I hope will be
within 20 dayes at fartheft), and then I may truft they Qiall get no wrong.
I know not what the faction with yow doe bragg; but believe it, their
caufe of bragging is more flender fince Wariftoun's removeing from London,
than it was. Mr. Gillefpie, and all of them, are better known here than
they fuppofe : the Lord our God is holy and true, and will not allwayes
further crooked defigns.
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It is not fitt your Towne take any notice at all of me in this bufi-
nefs, I mall be ready to doe them any fervice upon an juft and honed
account I befeek you, Sir, communicate nothing of this letter to any but
fuch as yow trull for fecrecie. The Lord's Spirit and prefence be with yow.
I am your's, in Chrift,
JA. SHARP.
London, November 21ft, in hafte, 1657.
(N.) [FoR MR. R. BAILLIE.]
REVEREND SIR,
WHILE I am here in towne I receave yours of February 15th. The con
cernments of your Toune are more upon my heart than that there needed any
requefts to engage me to imploy my poor endeavours for preventing their pre
judice. I take the libertie in thefe bufinefles to ufe the way I am accuftomed
unto with thefe of the Councell here : I cannot upon all occafions folicite
them at times when my being with them may be taken notice of ; but I hope
the refult of the Councell, in reference to thefe affaires, will evidence that I
have not been altogether neglectfull to improve the opportunities I had, with
all the members of the Councell, fince my laft coming to toune. I fhall only
fay this, that thofe among yow are much miftaken who think that Mr. Pat
rick Gillefpie can carrie here what he will. Providence tryfted my coming
over with the very nick of the determination. In reference to what yow did
write, I fpake to all of the Councell feverallie in it, and had afiurances from
them of what now is made good by their order ; and if your honeft men fhall
take no notice of Mr. Patrick, but goe on in their ufuall way of election, they
need fear no prejudice by all he can doe ; but if either by his threats, or in-
finuations, he prevaill with them to fwerve from their liberties in the leaft, they
have themfelves to blame for future inconveniences. One of the Councell
told me, he had fatiffied Major Darnie [Dorney] with what was done. This is
but a hint in hafte to yourfelf, which I hope yow will not make known as come
from me ; but believe it, there is no caufe why your honeft men mould in the
leaft recede from their way in owning their juft rights, and though I doe not
make much dinn in bufinefs of that nature, yet I have matter to blefs the
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Lord I have not been altogether ufelefs in ferving fo juft an intereft. I muft
lay it upon yow to make my excufe to your Magiftrates and Councell that
I have not given them a return to their letter. I pray yow, as yow love me,
let not me be taken notice [of] as having any hand in what is now pad.
Yours,
JA. SHARP.
Edinburgh, 25th February [1658.] In hafte.
Remember my refpects to Mr. George Young. Goe on in your way of
ele&ion where no fcandall is made out to incapacitate any by the Act of
qualifications.
(P.) FOR HIS REVEREND BROTHER MR. JAMES SHARP, MINISTER
AT CREELL[CRAIL].
JAMES,
How our Towne's bufinefs will goe on Tuefday I know not : my neighbour
is as high as ever. If it goe wrong we muft be on yow again. In Mubbot's
letter, the laft week, from London, to the Governour of our towne, I fee
the Councell of England are on ane oath of renouncing of Charles Stewart's
intereft : This, to me, is point-blank a renouncing of our Covenant and Oath
to God ; if this be not prevented, it is a ground of fore perfecution only for
confcience. If we act any thing againft the prefent power, let them doe to
us as they find caufe ; but if we refufe ane new oath renouncing an old,
whilk the laft Parliament of England drew on us to keep them from mine,
and fo to lay a foundation for Cromwell's prefent power, our fufferings for
this may be heavie, but unworthie to come from them who drew us to the
firft oath, which we cannot renounce, though they have done it. If your
power be any thing worth with Broghill, Thurloe, or any other, I humbly in-
treat yow to prevent this great mifchief, a moft needlefs ground of trouble
only to tender confciences : to others, oaths are nought but cobwebs. I have
given yow a warning ; this courfe will undoe many whom yow love, and me
with the firft, for any thing I know : do in this what yow may. This, taken
in tyme by yow, may eafily be remeeded : but if the Protector be once en-
gadged in this perfecution moft needlefs, he will not be fo eafily brought off
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it as he was from the idle oath of tender. Who cares now for an oath but a
few quiet confcientious men, who will never trouble the prefent government,
if it trouble not them.
Your's to ferve yow.
Glafgow, May 3d [1658.]
FOR THE RIGHT WORSHIPFULL SIR GEORGE MAXWELL OP
NETHER POLLOCK.'
SIR,
As yow defired, I did immediatly draw the inclofed, according to your
amendments, as yow may fee ; but none calling for it, I would not be officious
to obtrude it to any ; only, Sir, I fend it to yow, who made the motion of it
to me, to be made ufe of as yow think expedient. So refls,
Your's.
May 3d [1658.]
FOR HIS REVEREND AND BELOVED FRIEND MR. JOHN YOUNG.
SIR,
UNDERSTANDING that fome doubt of my confent to thefe of our A6ts
wherein indeed we were unanimous, I doe teftifie, that I did confent and fub-
fcryve not only that Act of the Colledge, allowing to Mr. Gillefpie three thou-
fand merks for his firfl fervice to us at London, but alfo to the A6t allowing
him, during his lifetime, the half of the profits of the Bifhoprick of Gallo
way that mould be by his pains and diligence augmented ; and likewife for
his procuring of our laft gift, I did moft willingly fubfcryve ane A61 for a
gratuitie to him of three hundred pound flerling, out of the firfl and readieft
incumes of that gift : That my confent and hand was to all this, I am very
willing yow affure, in my name, any whom yow (hall hear to doubt of it.
May 3d [1658.] [ROBERT BAILLIE.]
7 Rector of the College of Glasgow. This short note probably enclosed the one that follows
it : See the postscript to Baillie's subsequent letter to Spang, (infra, p. 371-373,) respecting
Gillespie's disputes with the College and Town of Glasgow.
352 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1658.
FOR MR. SPANG.'
COUSIN,
THAT which oft I proraifed yow, a large account of our affaires this twelve
moneth pad, yow have it, but in a confufed way for want of leafure. Our
Church hes been prettie quiet, our troubling Remonftrants not haveing yet
prevailed with the Englifh to get authentic from them to exercife their
tyrannic among us. The great inftrument of God to crofs their evill de-
fignes has been that very worthie, pious, wife, and diligent young man, Mr.
James Sharp. The purpofe of the few brethren that were on the advife of
his going to London, upon my Lord Broghill's defire, yow may fee in his In-
ftructions, fubfcryved, and at firft feen almoft only by three, Mr. Robert Dow-
glafs, Mr. David Dick, and Mr. James Wood. The Remonftrants agreed
not very weell among themfelves. My Lord Warriftoun, Mr. Gillefpie, and
Mr. Guthrie, thefe three reftlefs heads, looked not one way. But after the
affronts Mr. Gillefpie received from the Synod of Lothian; and my Lord
Wariftoun's domeftick ftraits had made him content, contrare to his former
refolutions, to embrace his prior place of Reg^fter from his Highnefs ; and
Mr. Guthrie's continuall vexation by Mr. Simpfone his colleague ; and Mr.
Simpfone of Airth being provocked by the Synod of Perth's meddling with
the great fcandall of the fatherlefs child, reflecting fore on him, they refolved
at laft to goe up together, and openly to petition his Highnefs for all their
defires.
When the Synod of Glafgow had taken off the cenfure of the Generall
Afiemblie from Mr. Patrick Gillefpie and Mr. James Naefmith, in the ftrange
way I wrote to yow of before, that partie thought it advantageous to them to
have that act of Glafgow acknowledged by the other Synods. For this end
they refolved to fend Mr. Gillefpie correfpondent from Glafgow to the Synod
of Lothian : they thought they would not refufe him for many caufes ; and
if they admitted him, it was a leading cafe to the other Synods to pafie from
the act of the Generall Aflemblie in its cenfure without all fatiffaction. That
meflage was not much to the mind of Mr. Gillefpie himfelf, but Mr. John
8 This letter has no date in the MS. but it appears to have been written in June 1658.
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Carftares and others would needs have it put upon him. When he came, his
commiffion was fcrupled at by Mr. John Smith and others, and laid afide to
be cognofced on ; they gladly would have fhifted the matter, and efchewed all
dinn, being unwilling to enter in conteft ; but Mr. Patrick Gillefpie's high
humour would not permitt it, but he muft needs have their pofitive anfwer
to admitt or rejed his commiffion. They lenified the queftion, and fince he
would have it put, they made it Admitt or Committ. When the votes almoft
of all wes for referring it to a committee to be cognofced on, he took it fo ill,
that he broke out in a railing, telling them, " Their fword was but of wood, and
their arme was broken," and much more evill language; to which Mr. Dow-
glafs gave (lout and fharp replies. I knew this irritation would not be eafilie
forgott ; it was a fpurr for their voyage to London.
There was a very foule fcandall of new broken out on Mr. James Simpfon
of Airth : A young woman familiar with him, and oft in his houfe, was found
with child ; me granted the child, but denyed me had known any man.
Mr. James, with the advice of his prefbyterie, Mr. James Guthrie, and other
two or three, (for their number is no greater in the Remonftrant prefbyterie
of Stirling,) takes the woman's confeffion, in face of the congregation, that (he
was with child, and withall her purgation by oath that (he knew no man.
For this Mr. James and me are both cited to anfwer to the Synod of Perth :
both of them fend in to the Synod a declinator (both written by Mr. James
Simpfon's hand) as of a corrupt judicatorie. While this is in agitation, Mr.
James is fent to London, to wait on till his four fellow-commiffioners mould
be ready to come. Their commiffion I did not fee ; but it was fuch as fome
of their owne, as Mr. John Carftares, and others, refuifed to fubfcryve : we
may know it by their propofalls, (B.) which to the very laft they preffed to
obtaine from the Protector : to wit ; Arie order from him, that within the
bounds of every Synod there mould be named a committee, of equall number
AfTemblie-men and Remonflrants, who mould have power to determine all
differences in planting and purgeing in all the Prefbyteries of the bounds,
2. That there mould be a committee of delegates from all the Synods, of
equall number of AfTemblie-men and Remonflrants, to determine finallie all
differences ecclefiaftick in the whole land. 3. That the Protector mould no
minate a committee to plant kirks, and that the power of giving of flipends
in all vacand churches mould be in this committee. 4. That the Parliament
VOL. in. 2 Y
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mould renew the Ac"l of Clafles, to the end the places of civill power fhould
be in the hands of their party. The laft they obtained, for Lieutenant- Ge
neral Lambert, and the Generall -Majors in the Parliament were much their
friends ; and others, whom their diligent agents Garthland and Tweddall made
for them. At firfl their motion was rejected ; but thereafter, when our
friends were out of the houfe, they got it pad in an additional propofition.
It was intended chiefly for the changing of our Glafgow magiflrates ; where
upon I moved our brethren of Edinburgh to write to Mr. Sharp many rea-
fons to (lop the thing if he could. He wrought it fo that it pafl with much
difficultie, and however got private aflureances it mould doe no harme ; and
fo that A61 of Parliament lay as good as dormant, till of late they obtained,
on a fupplication of procured hands in this toune, a letter from the Protec
tor to fufpend the new election of magiftrates in our burgh till farder order.
Our late magiftrates, with the concurrence almoft of all the burghs of Scot
land, are dealing with the Protector to get the priviledges of their burgh
preferved. What will be the ifiue we will fee ere long.
For the other three defyres, Mr. Sharp, in diverfe conferences before the
Protector, made them appear fo unreasonable, that after more than half a
yearls importuuat foliftation, they could obtaine nothing at all. One of the
caufes of fruftrating their hopes was, that the London minifters was flatly for
us againft them. Yow fee what information I writ up to Mr. Aftie, a prime
citie minifter, to be communicat to all our Prefbyterian friends, (C.) ; alfo to
my ancient friend Mr. Rons, one of the Councell of State,(D.). Mr. Ruther-
foord did write to Mr. Aihe an information in the favours of his partie ; but
after both his and mine were read, and Mr. Sharp with his five oppofites had
been heard at length, in diverfe meetings of the Citie minifters, all of them
profefied their diflatiffaclion with the way of the Remonftrants, and fatiffac-
tion with our proceedings. Mr. Wood had drawne a Reprefentation of our
differences, which Mr. Hutchifon, in his fmoothing, to my fenfe, had fome-
thing enervat, not only in its Iharpnefs, but vigour. This Mr. Sharp did
print at London ; which (fince thefe too readie fcribes have not anfwered,)
did us much good with all intelligent men.
The Remonftrants, finding no Prefbyterian friends, plyed hardlie the Sec
taries, did pray oft with them both privately and publicity, fo that with all
their power thefe befriended them ; I mean Dr. Owen, Lockier, Gary 11, and
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other Independents : Lieutenant- General Lambert and Fleetwood, with the
great officers of the armie, moft anabaptifts, were affe&ionately for them.
At laft the Prote&or, being wearied, did name a duodenarie committee to
hear both, and report their judgment to the Councell. Mr. Sharp refufed to
appear as being a mere private man, having no commiflion to tranfacl any
thing of public! conce'rnment to the Church of Scotland ; but being charged
at the fecond meeting, he appeared, and gave fuch anfwers to his oppofites
challenges, that they could get nothing there for a good tyme. Of the
twelve, fix were conceaved to be prefbyterians, and the reft enemies to our
church-difcipline. Of the firfl fort none keeped but one, Mr. Manton ; the
others keeped weell, and were readie at laft to report to the Councell their
advyce to grant all the defires of the Remonftrants, as they had reafon,
being avowed adverfaries to our church- government. When it was at this
nick, Mr. A (he, by his letters, procured Mr. Godfrey and Mr. Cooper, two
prefbyterians, who had been named on the committee, to meet ; they, with
Mr. Manton, after a new full hearing, were fo well fatiffied with Mr. Sharp's
reply es, that they drew up their judgement by way of teftimonie, (E.)
againft the Remonftrators defyres. This wrought fo upon the Councell, that
they refolved not to interpofe in our debates, only to write a letter to the
minifters of Edinburgh, Mr. Dowglafs, Mr. Dickfon, Mr. Traill, and Mr.
Stirling, to agree at home among ourfelves ; yet in this letter, by cannie con
veyance of their friend Mr. Scobell, (I think,) clerk to the Councell, they had
gotten foifted in a very hurtfull claufe, that where there was difference about
ftipends, it fliould be determined by the teftimonie of four named in Mr.
Patrick Gillefpie's ordours, which the Parliament had expreffly abolifhed.
That claufe was reprefented both to the Protector and Counfellors to be fo
unreafonable, that it is like there fhall no letter at all be fent to us. The
florme we were afraid for, by God's mercy, for a tyme is put by ; but how
foon it will waken again, we doe not know.
Mr. James Guthrie left them before they came to their greateft conteft,
whether for want of moneys, or difference among themfelves, I know not,
though they put all the minifters of their mind in our bounds to pay, at the
firft, forty fhillings fterling, for their maintenance, and all of their partie, men
and women, to a voluntarie contribution ; whence, out of Glafgow, fome fay,
there went up one hundred and eighty pounds fterling ; yet their charge was
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fo great, and their friends charity, after the firft fervor, fo cold, that all of
them were ftraitned enough for moneys, as I was informed. Alfo, they fay,
they agreed not fo weell among themfelves : certaine it is that Mr. Guthrie
oppofed my Lord Wariftoun' s renaming his place of Regifter. If it had been
upon both their profefled principle of the unlawfullnefs to take places fubor-
dinate to an unlawfull power, I could the better have excufed it ; but Mr.
Guthrie, (as one, who fhould have known it with the bed, informed me) with
all his power, did labour fecretly to get that place to his confident friend
Swintoun, with the burden of a yearly penfion of three hundred pound fter-
ling out of it to Wariftoun ; I know not what to fay to it. However Mr.
Guthrie left them in the mids, having obtained nothing but a penfion of a
hundred pound fterling to his colleague Mr. Rule, out of the treafurie of vacant
ftipends, the fpoill of other churches, which is now dryed up. My Lord
Wariftoun is now alfo returned, having, with his place, obtained the moft
of the Regifters which were carried out of the betrayed (as many fay)
Caftle of Edinburgh to the Tower of London.
Mr. Gillefpie remaines there forely fick, fome think in difpleafure that his
defyres were not granted. However, at his laft going to Hamptoun Court, he
got no fpeech of the Protector : if this grieved him, I know not ; but he went
immediately from Hamptoun Court to Wombledoun, Lambert's houfe, being
Saturnday at night ; and haveing ingadged to preach on Sunday morning, be
fore fermon, he had five ftooles, and, after his painfull preaching, fourfcore
before he refted ; thereafter, for many dayes, a great flux and feaver, to
gether with the breach of an hulcer in the guts, put him to the very brink of
death. Many thought it the evident hand of God upon him, and would
not have forrowed for his death. For myfelf, I was grieved, forefeeing the
hurt of our Colledge by his removeall. He had obtained from the Protector
to us, all the benefices of the whole Chapter of the diocefe of Glafgow ; alfo
the Abbacy of Corfregall, and fundrie other things, which, jure devoluto,
fell in the Protector's power. This gift he could have made advantagious
to us ; but, as I fufpect, no other man mall make any thing of it : befide,
our rents are in a confufed condition, and we in much debt, which hardlie,
for a long tyme we will defray ; which he, by his fingular activitie in thele
things, could have taken courfe with ; but my moft grief was, that I feared
we fliould truely have gotten a worfe in his place, with whom my life mould
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have been more unpleafant ; fo that, after fome weeks defperat difeafe, when
his flux and feaver began to abate, I was glad, and wifhed him to return
quicklie in health. When I fand the faction ftickle for fecuring his place to
their fide, I writ to Mr. Sharp (F.) to guard againft that evill, if he could ; bot
how all thefe things will goe, a little tyme will inform us. If he remove, my
defire would be for Mr. Sharp, or failing him, for Mr. Ferguflbn : for myfelf,
God willing, I will medle with no place that comes through civill hands, and
for that place as yet I never nad the leaft ambition. If the faction fet Mr.
Durhame in it, or Mr. Young, that his profeflion may be for Mr. Durhame,
I mind not to ftickle at all to the contrare ; we may foon be worfe ferved.
While thefe debates at London did continue, the reftlefs humour of that
partie at home was fomewhat quiet, waiting for the iffue. Our Synod of
Glafgow, whether for want of matter, or being deferted and contemned by
many, has pail this year without dinn. Mr. Robert Semple of Lifmahegu's
foule procefle has been referred to a committee, and little done in it, the man
being one of their fyde. Mr. John Hammiltoun of Innerkip, a prime man
among them, of a long tyme under very grofs fcandalls, is not fo much as
challenged. Mr. Harrie Semple, a bufy agent for them, prevented his pro
cefle by death. The Synod of Lothian and Perth has been carefull to try
accurately the challenges of fundrie.
The Quakers make fome trouble among us, and increafe in Leinzie,
Dowglafs, and other places, mod where that faction has been troublefome.
Thus does our Church affairs fland.
For our State, all is exceeding quiet : A great armie, in a multitude of
garrifons, bydes above our head, and deep povertie keeps all eftates exceed
ingly at under ; the taxes of all forts are fo great, the trade fo little, that it's
marvell if extreame fcarcitie of money end not, ere long, in fome mifchief.
What came out doors of the Parliament was this : All who came thither
were complying and confident men, and none more readie to ferve his High-
nefs, in every thing, than all that came from Scotland : if any were doubted,
they were hold [en] off till their commifllons were weell examined. The ma-
licioufnefs of the faction with us keeped out Commiflar Lockhart, commif-
floner for Glafgow, a large moneth : yet at laft, by Ambaflador Lockhart's
letter from France, he got in. The great work at firft was, to fettle the
excife, and maintainance for the army ; a vaft foume of money was requilite
358 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1658.
for the garifons in England, Scotland, and Ireland ; for the navies in Spain,
at Dunkirk, and Jamaica; for the armie in France; for the Protector's
court. When this was agreed to without all contradiction, it was fo laid by
a few of the Protector's fafteft friends, not above five, that the city fhould
petition the Parliament to advyfe the Protector to take upon him the title
and government of King, after the way which, in a long paper of advyce,
was fett doun. To this none did oppofe but the officers of the army : to
take them off, one of the articles of government was, the erection of a Houfe
of Peers, to be nominat by the Protector, who doubtlefs was to make
lords the chief of thefe officers ; yet the thing was fo fair againfl all that
was profefied, and fo oft printed before, that it could not goe doune at firft
with them. That which made fome of them, efpeciallie their head, Lambert,
fo adverfe, was his owne evident intereft ; for in all men's eyes he was the
heir-apparent to the Protector's power ; but the Kingfhip cutted him off
clearlie from that hope. About this, many (harp debates were in the Houfe
and out of the Houfe by the officers ; all other were to give the Protector
whatever he defired, not fo much for recent accidents, which were thought
either invented or directed as opportune for that end : to wit, the feafing of
a number of gentlemen in and about the citie, as if Charles Stewart had
employed them for a prefent difturbance of the peace, which fear quicklie
evanifhed as totallie groundlefs ; alfo Sundercomb's plot to kill the Pro
tector with a blunder-box ; the man's denyall of all, and poyfoning of him-
felf for fear of quartering quick, made not this to appear ; the feafing of
the declaration and ftandard of the Fifth Monarchic fools ; the imprifoning of
Sir Harie Vaine in Cairbrugh [Carifbrook] cattle, and Generall Major Hari-
fon, did quicklie evanifli : But that which inclined the mod to further the
Protector's Kingfhip, was their expectation of a regular government thereby,
without the perpetuating of a militarie rule by the fword, to which fo vafl
and arbitrarie charges would allwayes be neceflary ; befide that, all did
expect a more moderate and meek ruling from the Protector and his child
ren, than from Lambert, or any of all the armie. Some alfo were glad of a
profefied and open royaltie, hoping, in tyme, it might further the returne
of thefe whom they counted the lawfull heirs of the Crowne.
When the Protector, as they faid, was willing to have come, and declared
his willingnefs to accept, after much debate, private and publick, of the
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article of Kingfhip, alfe weell as the reft of the advyce, that fame morning his
good-fon Fleetwood came to him, with fome papers, aflureing a ftrong com
bination in the armie to oppofe that motion. Upon the which affrightment,
his Highnefs went to the painted chamber, and called the Houfe to fhew them,
that he accepted the government according to the petition and advyce in all
the articles, except the title of King, which he could not digeft. His beft and
moft intime counfellers, Broghill and Thurloe, thought this a great error ;
yet it feems it was the beft expedient ; for at that time Lambert and the
Generall- Majors power was fo great, both in the Houfe and Armie, that
if their obftinacie had continued, they might have overturned all. To
prevent this mifchief, a few days thereafter he adjourned the Parliament
from June 2?th till October.
In the laft day of the Parliament, June 27th, he was moft folemnly in-
flailed Supreame Magiftrat in a canopie of ftate and throne, with a royall
purple, furr itrobe, a fword of ftate, a fcepter, and Bible in place of a crown,
by the Speaker of the Houfe, Withrington, and was graced, like a coronation,
with a fermon and feaft. In all the action the French and Dutch Ambafla-
dors flood on his two hands, congratulating in their mailers name. The
hearts of many were forie to fee in effect all the Kingfhip eftablifhed on
Cromwell in peace. Yet this did not fatiffie ; for quickly Lambert was called
for to a privie conference, wherein declaring himfelf unwilling to comply in
all things, his commiffion was called for, and he made a man moft privat :
the chief of the army, in a fupplication, excufed their adhering to his way.
Broghill got paft in Parliament a right of a thoufand pound a year for his
good fervice. All men expected that when fo eafily Lambert was quafhed,
the next feffion of Parliament would have quickly made Cromwell King ; yet
it did not fooner meet but great mifcontentments were apparent : the Houfe
of Lords, according to the petition and advyce, did fit ; Manchefter and many
would not fitt : Caffilis difdained it ; there was no more Peers for Scotland
but Wariftoun and Lockhart : yet the chiefe of Cromwell's friends were taken
out of the Houfe of Commons to fill the other Houfe ; and many then came
in to the Houfe of Commons who were excluded before, no great friends to
him ; Scot, Hefilrig, Lambert, and many more, who quicklie began to move
high queftions about the power of the militia, the name and power of the
other Houfe, to whom the Supreame Magiftrate was to be anfuerable. Upon
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their ftickling fo high, after a few dayes fitting, they were diflblved ; the
Protector calling to God to judge betwixt him and them, and they faying,
Amen. In his fpeech, he attefted God he had rather chofen at a wood-fyde
to have keeped fheep, than have undertaken the office he had, if the love of
the people's peace had not conftrained him : he allured of Charles Stewart's
readinefs to come from Flanders with an army, and fundrie lifting men for
him in London. A ftorme after this was expected, fome prodigies feeming
to foretell it : A little after his inftalment, a magazine of powder blowing up
many houfes and perfons ; about the houfe in Fogo-muir, near Duns-Law,
in December, an army of pickmen appearing to many ; and fome dayes
after, fome thoufands of canon, in a formall (hape, for many dayes being feen
by many, both Englifh and Scots, made of the fnow without the hand of man.
For all this, nothing to this day is feen but a deep peace.
It's expected a new Parliament may be called, and fundry (byres are faid
to be forming petitions to his Highnefs to accept of the title of King. Many
in the army, both in Scotland and England, are caft out ; but who remaine,
writ up their fupplication, incouraging the Protector to proceed ; it's thought,
on the councell's act and armie's petition, the Crown (hall be put on, and con
firmed by the next Parliament. They fpeak of my Lord Fairfax and Lambert's
committing. In a late fpeech of the Protector to the Mayor and aldermen
of London, it is Hill averred that Charles Stewart is ready to come from
Oftend, with fix thoufand men and feven thoufand armes : All marvells how
this can be ; for the Englifh navie is readie about that place to fink all that
come that way ; and the defigne of railing men in England is fo poor, that
none values it, efpeciallie when it is fo well known by the Protector in every
circumftance ; befide that, the moil who profefiTe themfelves for the King
among us, or over fea are of fo exceeding ill principles and humour, that
few do wifh to be under their power.
For our more private affaires, thus they (land : The Magiftrates of our
towne have guided their affaires much better than they wont to be here, or
any where this day in Scotland ; by a voluntar (lent on the malt, they have
payed near two hundred thoufand merks, or a verie great foume of debt left
by the former Remonftrants, by buying the Gorbals, Craig's, Blantyr's
teinds, &c. at great rates. They have payed the Englifti raaintainance, fo
that no man, thefe three or four yeares, of greateft burden, hes been dented
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to a fhilling. They have made the Laigh-Church as good as new ; bigged
a fair grammar fchooll, a fair mill, and two wells, in the heart of the towne.
For all this, Mr. P. Gillefpie, fo foone as recovered from his deadly di-
feafe, informes the Protector of them as fo mifhent men, that he obtaines an
order to Hop them to proceed at Michaelmafs in their ordinarie election.
When we heard of it, we writ to Mr. Sharp, who took fuch courfe about
it at London that his returne was, we needed [not] care for it, for it could not
prejudge us ; for, indeed, Mr. Patrick Gillefpie's carriage at London was fo
high, vain, and fumptuous, that he became to be miflyked ; and his frequent
familiar walking with Lambert, and fome idle fpeeches, of the Remonftrants
power to raife in Scotland twenty-four thoufand able yeomen for the good
caufe, reported to the Protector, added nothing to his credit ; yet when he
came to Edinburgh in his coatch from London, with his horfe of twenty-five
peeces walking after the coatch, he made a great bufinefs to have all our
magiftrates and councell caft off. Mr. James Sharp had procured a letter
from the Councell of England to beware to hurt the priviledges of Glafgow.
Mr. Douglafs and Mr. Dickfon, on my letters, had dealt with the counfellers
againfl Mr. Patrick's oppreffing and calumnious accufations. The Proveift
and Clerk of Edinburgh, and other friends, dealt in the fame, feeing Glaf-
gow's cafe would be a leading one to all Scotland. So for all that Warif-
toun, Swintoun, Argyle, and the reft of the faction could doe, little could be
obtained againft us ; only our folks, being foolifhlie confident, went too foone
home, and in their abfence, Mr. Patrick obtains an commiffion to try and re
port what could be objected againft the magiftrates and counfellers. On the
commiffion were five, Major Dorney, a fectarian preacher, but intime with
that partie, the Governour of the Caftle of Dumbartane, an anabaptift, as
they fay, Lieutenant- Colon ell Simons, Commiflar Lockhart, and young
[Hamilton of] Orbiftoun. At their firft meeting, their proceeding was fo
illegall, that Orbiftoun and Lockhart protefted againft it, and refuifed to fitt.
Our Magiftrates appealed to the Councell, and refuifed to anfwer ; notwith-
ftanding, Mr. Patrick moved the three Englifh fojours to proceed, as they
did, till they had fworne and heard all they pleafed, on proveift, baillies, and
moft of the counfell ; againft fome they fwore about fourtie witnefles with
out any libell, but What know ye of this man ? hi a way fo irrationall and
illegall, that all cryed out on it.
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In the meane tyme, I was called to Edinburgh, December 30th, to hear
Mr. Sharp's report. He gave us a very notable relation of every paflage,
how, by the good hand of God, he had gotten all the defignes of the exceed
ing bufie and bold Remonftrants defeat ; that the Protector had difmhTed him
with very good words, aflureing he mould be loath to grant any thing to our
prejudice. He commended himfelf in his laft fpeech to four of us in parti
cular, and by name twyfe, Mr. Douglafs, Mr. Dickfon, Mr. Blair, and me,
profefling his forrow that he was a (lumbling-block to us. The reafon of
this kindnefs, I take to be, 1. My Lord Broghill and Secretar Thurloe's re
ports of us ; 2. That the Prefbyterian partie in England who adheres to us
is exceedingly great and ftrong, and, after the armie, is the Protector's chiefe
ftrength againft the Sectaries, who generallie are out of conceit of him ; 3.
That our adverfaries are found but unconfiderable, and a headie partie, much
joyning with the way of his adverfaries. However, we blefied God, that by
Mr. Sharp's labours, was keeped off us for a tyme a much feared ftonne :
At his coming from London, he appointed a correfpondence with one Major
Beak, a zealous Prelbyterian, for aflilling us in what we might have to doe.
We appointed Mr. Wood to draw a Ihort declaration of our willingnefs to
have any tollerable peace with the Remonftrants, if fo, for tyme to come,
they would promife to be fubmiffive to the eftablifhed government : this now
is printed, (G.) ; but they fcirp at all we can doe or fay for peace, except we
fubject ourfelves to their good pleafure. There was fomething moved in our
laft meeting of a few, to doe a little more for ingaging the Protector : I cruflied
the motion at the beginning, inveighing againft it ; fo for the time it's dead.
At this tyme, Mr. P[atrick] Gpllefpie] was diligent to get his accufations
clofed in Glafgow, [before] the three Sojours with their clerk James Porter,
(the factious clerk catholick of fynod, prefbyterie, common fefiion, and the five
particular feflions, and of every committee they have, ) Mr. Patrick and Mr. John
Spreul inftructing every witnefs as they thought fitt. When all was ended,
they went to the Councell with the depofi tions ; but finding the Councell not
fo ready as they expected to goe their way, Mr. Gillefpie takes himfelf to a
new way, wherein he was like to have obtained all their defigne. Their
crafts-baillie, John Hall, a wavering and volage man, albeit the Proveift's
nephew, fuffered his lightnefs to be abufed, and to tell all the evill tales he
could of his colleagues. Walter Neilfon, deacon-conveener, Mr. G[illefpie's]
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fpeciall enemie, againft whom was more deponed of too much drinking and
profanitie than any three of their companie, in his ambition to continue in
office, was willing to joyne in a clanculary way with the former to ferve Mr.
Gpllefpie's] defignes ; and above all, W. Anderfone, imployed by the towne
in their moft fecret actions, and conceaved to be a mod a&ive agent againft
Mr. G. was in fecret drawne over by him to joyne with his partie. Thefe
three, by Mr. P. [Gillefpie's] and Mr. John Spreul's directions, had laid it
fo cunningly, that it was a marvell their plott mifcaried. However, Mr. G.
as minding nothing but peace and the Town's good, that which he knew the
Councell had refolved contrare to all his defires, that he might feem to have
fome hand in that he could not help, puts in a fupplication that all Ihould be
fent home in peace, and accufations laid by, as hopefull they would make a
new election, which mould be right and acceptable ; the Councell, nothing the
more for this fupplication, but on Mr. Sharp and other foliftation, and their
order from England, fent an order whereby they removed the flop had been
put to their election, and permitted them to go on to choife according to their
priviledges. The day before the election, and no fooner, they fand out Mr.
Patrick's new plott, and fundrie of them went about to prevent it the belt
might be. When they came to the election, they carried not only that W.
Anderfone ihould not be on the lite to be Proveift, but mould have no place
in Councell, as being neither merchand nor craftfman : they got John An
derfone of Dowhill, proveift, [John] Walkinfhaw and James Barnes, baillies,
James Campbell, dean of gild, John Hall put off the councell, and all made
clofe contrare to Mr. Patrick's mind ; only Walter Neilfone, by the power of
his partie, was made baillie, but all his followers they gott off the Councell, fo
that Wattie now fignifies little thing. At this difappointment, Mr. Gillefpie
and his partie are inraged : they fend back new fupplications to the Councell
againft an irregular election ; they obtained fummonds againft fourteen to
anfwer to the former depolitions ; and now both parties are in Edinburgh to
plead this caufe : the event yet is uncertain, and both are very confident to
get their defires. The chief of the Toune- Councell are John Bell and John
Walkinfhaw, right wife, diligent, and bold men, who hes had many fhreud
rancounters with Mr. Gillefpie before the Councell : to his face they
threaten to libell him, fince they can no be quite of his cumber, as one who
neglects totallie his own office, and in five or fix yeares fervice, for which he
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takes up a very great ftipend, hes done nothing at all in his proper duetie, no
fo much as once to be prefent at a privat or publick examination. 2. That
he invents one bufinefs after another to be from his charge ; and fpends up,
befide his flipend, the Colledge rent exceffively. That when he was at Lon
don, for a by-bufinefs for the Town, he took off them fiftie pieces ; and for
fome gift he procured to the Colledge, befyde all the charges beflowed on it,
which were great, he took three thoufand merks from the Colledge as a gra
tuity, and a penfion for his lifetime of the half of that gift ; the whole whereof
he calls two thoufand merks, which yearly, mud make to him a thoufand.
That for the laft journey to London, where, only on the by, he purchafed a
new gift to the Colledge which they fay is lyke to make nothing but much
plea and expences, he took fix thoufand merks out of the Colledge rent at a
time, when not only there was not any thing to pay the Matters ftipends, but
in the mids of the year there was nothing to pay the matters and burfars boord ;
and as if this had not been enough, befide near three thoufand merks of de-
purfements for compts of things needlefs to the Colledge, he took ane other
gift from the Colledge, for the fame fervice, of three hundred pound fterling,
to be payed out of the firft and readied of any thing came in of his laft gift ;
he profefling, at the receiving of the Acl; for it, that when all was payed to
him, he was ftill a lofer in his laft journey, wherein few doubted bot he
fpoke truth in regard of his budge wafte. His partie, who employed him to
London, contribute to him above one hundred and fifty pound fterling, which
they fuppofed fhould have fufficed for his charges ; and the Protector gave
him two hundred pound fterling, which he fuppofed (hould liberallie have de
frayed him ; yet all did it not. They fay that never Bifhop in Scotland lived
at fo high a rate ; and the maine caufe why he meddled to have his own fac
tion in the magiftracie, was his aflurance, that thefe who now are in place,
when they come to audit the Colledge counts, will not allow but complaine
of his vaft and unreasonable charge. This, and much more, they threaten
himfelf to libell againft him : How all will go we will hear fhortly. How
ever, he hes wakened a very great ftrife among our people, who without him
would have been pretty quiet.
Aberdeen will never be out of fome fire. Mr. Meinzies being wearied of
his Independency, feems content to return to the Prefbyterie and Synod ;
yet Mr. Cant and he hes continuall fighting from the fame pulpit, till at laft
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Mr. Cant is removed, l in fmall reputation. But before his death, his fon,
Mr. Andrew [Cant,] publickly had foull fly tings with Mr. Meinzies, in the
fchooles, before all the fchollers ; whereof Mr. Meinzies hes written to all
the other Univerfities, complaining, not fo much of the affront, as the
erroneous tenets of Mr. Andrew. The queftions were De Concurfu Dei in
A&ibus Liberis, wherein Mr. Meinzies follows Twiffe and Rhetorford *ara
Troflas ; the other oppofes thefe expreflly, and goes too farr the Arminian and
Molinifts way : however, that' plea has made much dinn.
In St. Andrewes there is no more concord. The plea about Mr. Wood's
fetling in the Provoilrie of the Old Colledge is fcarce fetled, till a worfe does
arife about the planting of his place in the New. While he and Mr. Sharp
are too lingering in putting in it Mr. Scougle,2 a good and noble fcholler,
minifter of Lewchers, Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, at Mr. Rutherfurd's defyre, gets
fecretly the Protector's hand to one Mr. Alexander Jamifone, a regent of
St. Leonard's, a man very unfitt for fuch an imployment. About this there
is a great prefent ftrife.
In Edinburgh things are more quiet. There is little more concord in their
Colledge : Mr. Lightoun3 does nought to count of, but looks about him in his
chamber : Mr. Dickfon, for fear of Mr. Guthrie, was active to get him there.
His fon Mr. Alexander fucceeded Mr. Lightoun in his miniftrie at New-
bottle ; where my Lord Lothian, his earned caller, and many of the people,
became quickly fo unkind to him, in his ftipend and other duties, that he
was out wearied with them. His father,4 or rather Mr. Dowglafs, moved my
Lord Broghill to defire the Toune-Councell to prefent him to the vacant place
1 In the margin of the MS. Baillie has added, " This was generally reportit, butyit he lives."
After the Restoration, in consequence of various proceedings, Mr. Andrew Cant, senior, with
drew from his ministerial charge in Aberdeen, and died about the year 1664. His son, in
1675, became Principal of the University, and one of the Ministers of Edinburgh.
2 Mr. Patrick Scougall, son of Sir John Scougall of Scougall, was minister of Leuchars in
Fife. He was minister of Darsie in 1636; translated to Leuchars in 1645 ; from thence to
Saltoun in 1658; and consecrated Bishop of Aberdeen in 1664.
3 Mr. Robert Leighton, Principal of the University of Edinburgh, and afterwards Bishop of
Dunblane, and Archbishop of Glasgow.
4 Mr. David Dickson, Professor of Divinity. His son was appointed Professor of Hebrew,
3d September 1656.
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of the Hebrew Tongue ; which accordingly was done, and he fettled there in
Mr. Lightoun's abfence at his yearly progrefs to London : on his return he
flikled more than is ordinal to him, to have the young man out ; but his
labour was vaine. In a late voyage to London he obtained, after Mr. Gillef-
pie's example, fome two hundred pound derling to the Colledge out of fome
Church lands, which, in my mind, will be als-foone obtained as the flim-flams
of Mr. Gillefpie's gifts. However Mr. Sharp obtained, at London, that one
of thefe hundred pounds, when gotten, mould be Mr. Alexander Dickfon's
ftipend. This angers Mr. Lightoun not a little ; but all is quiet, for the
minidrie there of our mind, carie all things quietly and wifely, without much
noife. In the Toune Councell there is too much, and feen divifion, the
young Proveid carying all over the Clerk and others with a proud high
hand, to the Toune' s hurt, as I hear.
We grieve for fundry unhappy accidents and fudden deaths among us.
My Lord Killmars,5 a mod gallant youth of nineteen years, among the tailed
men of the Ifle, in a few dayes ficknefs of a purple feaver, died. My
nephew, my bed friend in Glafgow, the dronged man in the town, fuddenly
taken away with the fame. So Sir John Grear of Lag, when coming to
Edinburgh to marrie the Earl of Athole's lifter. Young Dughall,6 a very
fyne youth of twenty yeares, taken away with the pokes. John Bell, the
only child remaining to Mr. John Bell our friend, died of a purple feaver.
My Lord Rofs, a good young youth, as was fuppofed, fallen in adulterie
with his child's nurfe. The Earl of Eglintoun's heir, the Mafter Montgom-
rie,7 convoying his father to London, runns away without any advyce, and
maries a daughter of my Lord Dumfreis, who is a broken man, when he
was fure of my Lady Balclough's marriage, the greated match in Brittain :
this unexpected pranck is worfe to all his kinn than his death would have been.
The Earl of Murray did little better, for at London, without any advice,
he ran and maried Sir William Balfour's fecond daughter ; as my Lord
Paflay,8 the other year, lod himfelf, in marrying, at London, a daughter of
5 William Lord Kilmaurs, eldest son of William, ninth Earl of Glencairn.
6 Porterfield of Duchal.
7 Alexander, eldest son of Hugh Lord Montgomery, after whose death lie succeeded to the
title of Earl of Eglintoun.
8 James, eldest son of James, second Earl of Abercorn.
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Sir John Lenthal, who had born to Sir William Fleming fome chldren ; and
my Lord Kenmure caft himfelf away, in that fame place, on a foolifh marriage
whilk will accomplish the ruine of his familie.
The Earle of Rothes is put in the caftle on a moft (hameful occafion : My
Lord Howard's lifter matched with my Lord Balgony, Rothes's lifter's fon,
Generall Leflie's oye ;* this Howard's wife, a very light woman, came
to make a vifit to Fife, where her carriage every where was exceeding wan
ton ; Rothes openly bure her too much company, to the offence of many.
However, about that tyme ihe is gotten with child, which flie bears at London :
her hufband, finding that he had not been near her for three or four moneths
from her conception, falls in an outragious jealoulie with her ; fufpecls my
Lord Bellaffis, whom his brother fights in that quarrell : but fufpects Rothes
more, and in a rage pofts towards Scotland to fight Rothes. The Prote6lor
hearing of it, caufes follow and apprehend Howard, and fends an order in
hafte to fecure Rothes in the Caftle of Edinburgh ; where yet he lyes in
great infamie.
My Lord Fofter [Forrefter,]2 on a great fufpicion of inceft with his
wife's fifter, his brother's wife, with grief of that and other mifdemeanours,
hes brought his wife to her grave. My Lord Lome,3 a moft excellent
and honeft- minded youth, prifoner in the Caftle of Edinburgh, walk
ing about while the Lieutenant of the caftle with others are playing
with hand-bullets, one of them, rebounding off the wall, ftricks him
on the head, whereon he fell down dead and fpeechlefs for a long
tyme : his death fundry dayes was expected, but bleffed be God, I hear this
day he was better. My Lord Toftes,4 being weell at night, died ere the
morrow. My Lord Clerkinton, Sir William Scot,5 going up weell his own
1 Alexander Lord Balgony having predeceased his father, (vide vol. i. p. 203,) his son Alex
ander Lord Balgony, who is here mentioned, on the death of his grandfather, the distinguished
General, in 1662, became second Earl of Leven.
2 James Haillie of Torwoodhead, eldest son of General Bail lie of Letham, by virtue of his
marriage with Joanna, daughter of George Lord Forrester, succeeded to the title on his Lord
ship's death. The General's second son, William, was married to another daughter. See note
in the Appendix of this volume, No. LXXIII.
3 Archibald Lord Lome, afterwards Earl of Argyle, eldest son of the Marquis of Argyle.
4 Sir Alexander Belches of Toftes, a Lord of Session, died in 1656.
5 Sir William Scott of Clerkington, a Lord of Session, died 23d December 1656.
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flair in Edinburgh, before he fat doune, fell dead in lefs than a quarter of
ane hour. My Lord Balcolmy,6 the bed Judge we had, going in weell to
the Tolbooth, before he fat doune on the bench, fell dead immediatelie. Sun
dry other fudden deaths, both of men and women, have been among us this
year : the other night Mr. William Forreft, an old fchoolmafter, lay down
weell at eight o'clock, and before ten was found dead : James Tran got not
fo much tyme as to make his teftament.
Our friends in town are all weell. Only good Mr. Durhame has keeped
his chamber above thefe four moneths, and his bed more than this moneth, of a
lent feaver and defluction, that puts his life in great hazard : in the abfence of
Mr. Patrick Gillefpie more than a year, and Mr. Robert M'Quare [M'Ward]
feeking his health at London, a great burden of continuall preaching lay on
him, and the perfecting of his work on the Revelation7 for the prefle was very
heavie : It were a great pity of the man ; albeit I have my own differences
with him, and (harp reckonings fometimes, yet I love him dearly, and counts
him one of the beft and ableft men in Brittaine. Our good friend, Mr. Wil
liam Wilkie, unhappilie, by a wrong ftep on the ftreet, fell and broke his leg,
which yet, after fome moneths, is not whole.
I blefs God for his kindnefs to myfelf, my health and chearfullnefs con
tinues. Being married October 1ft [1656], it pleafed God, the 15th of July
thereafter, to give me a fair daughter, Margaret, who yet is weell. I married
my daughter Lilias to a very good young man, Mr. William Eccles, the heir
of Kildonald,8 who now is delivered of a fine child : as a little before my mar
riage, my wife married her eldeft daughter9 to Mr. Hew Blair's fon, minifter
near Lithgow. I took all thefe for favours from God ; only my fon Mr. Ro
bert's long ficknefs troubles me ; he has a fore paine in his belly after a flux,
that as yet we cannot get cured, but I hope God fhall be mercifull to me in
his delivery. Harie is a hard ftudent befide myfelf, and profits weell. The
reft of my children thryve, and are weell, and thefe are fpurrs in my fide to
6 Sir James Learmonth of Balcolmie, a Lord of Session, died 26th June 1658.
7 Durham's Commentary on the Book of Revelation was published at London 1658, folio,
but it was posthumous. Bail lit' prefixed to it a commendatory letter, which will be inserted
in the Appendix.
8 Mr. William Eccles of Kildonan, soon after this became Minister of Ayr, but was ejected
for non-conformity in 1662. See the account of Baillie's Life, prefixed to this work.
9 By her first husband, Mr. Robert Wilkie, one of the Ministers of Glasgow.
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mind God's fervice. I hope to get my Chronologick Queftions to fomething
in tyme. Thereafter I purpofe to deale in the queftions of Grace, &c. againfl
Baxter and Amirot ; but I would have the ice better broken before I goe in
that vaft deep : Voetius I wifh heartilie were on that fubjecl. Thefe three
years of abfence from Prefbyterie and Synod, has given me great peace be
I wont to have. I know no how long I fhall get this quietnefs enjoyed.
The publick affaires, as reprefented to us by your letters and other papers,
fometimes give us matter of griefe, and fometime of joy. That the troubles
of the Churches of Savoy are quieted, and the great threats of a fad war in
Switzerland are turned to a fettled peace, we thank God. We are fometymes
in fear for your States, their unkindnefs to the Britifti familie, and that of
Orange, their needlefs provocations oft of Sueden, by open favouring all his
enemies, and drawing to their power Brandenburg from him ; alfo their too
ftrait allyance with Spaine, and neglect of France, portends no good, though
their fuccefle againft the Portugall (hips, in the very bay of Lifbone, and
their boafting of the Bifhop of Munfter unto a peace with the City, were
very pleafant to us, They are a very noble member of the Reformed Church,
which we pray God to help and blefs ; albeit their State feems to (land but
on tottering props, and they have loft much of the love and reputation fome
tymes they had, both at home and abroad.
We oft thank God that inables the Venetians fo long to hold up with
the great Turk, and are forry for their lofle this year, both of Tenedos and
Lemnos, and what elfe they had conquered in the Archipelago. It's God
that bridles and weakens that furious beaft of Conftantinople. If Ragotfi,
that noble, wife, and good prince, mould be put from his eftates, either
by the Turks or Auftrians, I fliould be very forry. They made us once
believe that the Mufcoviter had been ftobed by his father-in-law ; but it
feems it was but a fable. We are glad that all his afTayes againft Sweden
are proven fruitlefs.
It feems all the great warres of France and Spaine are but the playes of
children at the baires, for no fruit at all. Their great armies in Flanders, all
the laft year thirty thoufand a-peice, what did they but courfed about?
Montmedy, Bourburgh, and Mardick, are but three fecklefs bicocks ; the
getting of Heldin recompences weell the lofs of all the three. What has
Conty, Savoy, and Modena, with all their noife in Millain this whole year,
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gotten ? And in Catalonia their conqueft is nothing at all. We were forry
that the Portugall loft Olivenza, yet glad that all the Spanifti power could
obtain no more. It feems the Spanifh patience has fent home the Englifh
navy without all fruit of their three or four yeares fumptuous attendance,
but the lofle of Blake their generall. As for the burning of fome veflels in
the Canaries, it was no great bufinefs, fince now all the plate feems to be
come home without impediment. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie preached before the
Protector, in his velvet rarelie cut caflick, a very flattering thankfgiving for
that fignall fervice, thanking God for the great reformation of the Church.
That young prince which Spaine has begotten on his lifter's daughter in
his old age, feemes not to portend great good. But he whom all men begins
to look moft on, is Charles of Sweden : in his quarrell with Pole many were
not fatiffied, and generallie all here, for his league with the Protector, did
maligne him. For myfelf, fince the battell of Lipiick, I have loved the houfe
of Sweden to this day above all foreigners, and by the ftrange fuccefles God
gives to their valour, I exped more good to the Church from them than from
any others ; however that unhappie Chriftina's apoftacie, and after mifcar-
riages, has grieved my heart. I was very glad that the inceftuous Cardinall
Cafimir' s crown, which his foolifti and weak head could not bear, firft, by a ge
nerall confent of the Polonifh nation, and then by many fignall victories over
them, who retracted their fworne confent, was lyke to be fettled on Charles, fo
active, wife, and fuccefffull a prince ; when the ftrong confaederacie of Auftria,
Pole, Mofco, and others, raifed that hideous ftorme on him, I was grieved and
feared. But moft of all, my difdaine was againft the Dane, whofe friendlhip
the Swede had fought by his marriage with his coufin, and all other honeft
means lay in his power, that the Dane would needs, againft all could be
offered him honeftlie, draw Charles from Cafimir upon himfelf. Who can
pitie him in all his prefent fufferings ? This his madnefs feems to make
good that, which many doubted, his father's league with the Emperour, Pole,
and others againft the Swedes, as they alleadged, when Banier came doune
and took from his father fo much of his territorie. That Frederick in his
late declaration for his breach with Charles, alleadges nothing of that lofle, I
marvelled, fince all elfe he propones feems lighter than what Charles objected
to Cafimir at his breach with him. It feems ftrange, that Charles, with a hand-
full of men, has fo eafily poflefled himfelf of all almoft that Frederick had on
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the fouth fide of the fea ; that the Danes every where proved fleeing cowards,
efpecially in that laft attempt againfl Funnen, where their advantages were
fo fenfible. Strange that neither the Auftrians, nor Poles, nor Mufcoviters,
nor Hollanders, who drew that foolifli weak Prince in their league, had either
the courage or honefty to help him, in his greateft need, with the fmalleft fup-
port, either of men or money. It's mercy and wifdome in Charles that he
left Frederick any thing, when eafilie it feems, in a moneth or two, it was in his
power to have taken all from him that remained. I am glad that by a peace,
however extorted, the Swedes are free to take courfe with other enemies. I
wifti Brandeburgh may returne to his old poftour, and not draw on himfelf next
the Swedim armies, which the Lord forbid ; for after Sweden, we love
Brandeburgh next beft. We wim Pole in good terms were agreed with
Charles ; and that the Mufcoviter will agree with him we hope, finding no
thing to be gotten from him but ftrokes ; and the Poles has promifed their
croune to the Auftrian for his prejudice. Our wim is that the Mufcoviter,
for reforming of his churches, civilifeing of his people, and doing fome good
upon the Turks and Tartars, were more ftraitly allyed with Sweden, Brande
burgh, the Tranfyllvanian, and other Proteftant Princes.
We fliould rejoyce if, on this too good a quarrell againfl the Auftrians, in
ftirring up the Dane to invade Breme, which the peace of Munfter gave to
the Swede, he would turn his victorious army upon them and their afTociats
with the afiiftance of France and a good Dutch league. It feems no hard
matter to get the Imperiall croune, and turne the Ecclefiaftick Princes into
fecular Proteftants.
A long tract of dreames I have on the fuccefs of Charles, if God help
him to begin where his heroick uncle Guftave left, but all thefe I put in
God's hands, who knoweth his own appointments. I expect out of the
commotions which the Lord lets be now on the earth, his Majeftie will be
pleafed to work out what he has promifed of inlargeing his Son's kingdome,
of the bringing in the Jews, of aboliming Poperie and Mahometifme. And
alfo, I pray and hope for the reftitution of our fweet Princes to their owne,
by the means himfelf knowes, though invifible yet to men.
POSTSCRIPT.
While thefe lye long befide me on the occafion I write to yow, I add now
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this furder. Mr. Gillefpie and our Toune's-folk had fundry hearings before
the Councell, the end was, he got nothing at all of his will againft them ; yea
they put in a libell againft him of unfufficiency for his place, and maladminif-
tration of ths rents of the Colledge. This put him in a very high rage, for
he imagined, that whatever libells he gave in againft other, no man durft
have been fo bold as to have libelled him. So foone as he came to Glafgow,
it was his firft care to call a Facultie, and (hew us the libell, defyring we
would joyne in a teftimonie to clear him of it. All the reft were moft willing to
give him fuperlative commendations : I told them, I regrated thefe needlefs
contefts betwixt him and the toune, which he had drawn on himfelf by his
perfeuing of them both at home and abroad with great eagernefs, that they
did not concerne us ; for myfelf, at his entrie, I had protefted of his unfitnefs
for the Principals charge, which under my hand did ftand in the records of
the Councell, which I could not contradict ; for the other articles I mould
be willing to teftifie any thing was true; however, I defyred they might
draw a paper and (hew it me, and if I could I (hould fubfcryve it. Our
Rector1 brought a draught to me, fo fimple as he could devife, for my fatiffac-
tion, as he faid ; but 1 mew him a number of clear untruths in it, which I
could not atteft. So excufing myfelf, the Facultie, without me, did write their
teftimonie, and appointed Mr. John Young and Mr. A. Burnett to prefent it to
the Councell, together with a teftimonie from diverfe of the ftudents of di-
vinitie ; the common Seflion of the Toune did fend George Porterfield with
ane other, but verie impertinently drawne ; the town infifted in their petition
to be heard, to prove their lybell ; the Councell fent all home, advifeing to
agree among themfelves againft fuch a day, otherwayes all (hould have a hear
ing. Mr. Gillefpie's fpirit permitted him not to fpeak of agreeance, while he lay
under the infamie and fcorne of their lybell, and fo neglected to make an
overture to that end. When the day came, the Commiflioners from the
towne were earned to have their lybell put to probation ; the firft draught of
it had been but extemporall, by John Bell's hand ; but then, more advifedlie,
Mr. Robert Govean had put it in a farr better frame. Mr. Gillefpie and his
partie imputed this to me and Mr. George Young. He denyes his part in
it : I avowed my aflifting to my power, by my letters to my friends of our
towne, in their juft defence ; but in their libells I truely medled not ; I
1 Sir George Maxwell, vide supra, p. 351.
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thought it was no lefie than behoved to be expelled, when fo long and fo
violently Mr. Gillefpie had been libelling them without caufe ; but for myfelf,
their firft paper I never faw till Mr. Gillefpie brought it to our Facultie meet
ing ; and the other paper, which amended the firft, came only to my fight
yefterday. I never libelled man but the Bifhop of Canterbury, and at this
time I was farr from delireing the Englifh to medle with libells againft any
in our houfe, knowing in how dangerous tearmes I flood for the tyme with
their government. If my open avowing difference from Mr. Patrick in the
moft points of the libell would make him take me for the author of it, I be
hoved to take in patience that miftake, as I did many others : for any thing
in the libell, they needed no my information, for all was notour to many, as
well as to me. However, Mr. John Young, the Colledge commiflioner, was
very earned in Edinburgh, with our town's-folk not to preffe it furder ; their
friends alfo of the Councell preffed them to the fame ; fo they were content to
let it hing over his head for a tyme, till they fee if he move any thing farder
againft them, which he threatens he will doe ; but they doe not now regard
his utmoft endeavours.
Mr. Durhame yet continues extreamly fick, much regrated by all : no man
looks for his life.2 My fweet boy Rab, on Tuefday May 25th, was removed
to my very fore and juft grief.3 All who knew him bore witnefs of his pietie,
* Mr. James Durharae, died at Glasgow, on the 25th of June 1658.
3 Baillie being alarmed for the state of his eldest son Robert's health, applied to Dr.
Robert Cunningham, an eminent Physician in Edinburgh, for his advice, stating the case, and
enclosing a letter on the subject from Dr. Sylvester Rattray of Glasgow. Cunningham's reply
is still preserved, (Wodr. MSS. Fol. Vol. xlix, No. 8.) from which we learn, that in consequence
of his absence from Edinburgh, Baillie's letter must have reached him after his son's death.
The letter, "Datum Edinburgi, 29th Maij 1658," is addressed, "For the Right Reverend
Mr. Robt. Hailie, Professor of Divinitie at Glasgow. This." It begins, — ,
" Right Reverend. — Immediatelie after my returne from Winton, legi et relegi epistolam
tuam, perbrevem quidem, sed ratione morbi diuturni et periculosi quo corripi audio dilectum
tuum Filium, longiorem quam vellem. Morbum indigitant prsesentes medici hydropem, in
quorum sententiam pedibus manibusque eo :" &c. — The rest of the letter (in Latin,) is quite
technical and too long to be printed. The writer expresses but slender hopes of his re
covery, from the difficulty, of expelling a disease that has baffled all the medical skill exerted
to r%pel its approach ; he regrets the prostration of strength ; could that be recruited, among
other things, he suggests a liberal use of water brought from Moffat Well, as it had proved
beneficial in a somewhat similar case which he mentions.
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wifdom, and learning, above many his fellows. He had two or three year a
flux, and when it went away, there remained for other two year a great rumb
ling of wind in his bellie ; which within thefe two moneths did weaken him
fore, and made him keep in. Both he and I did ftill expect a recoverie till
the lad fourtnight, when his bellie and leggs began to fwell to an hydropick
tympanic ; then my feares were great, and the doctors who had fpent all their
art in vaine became defperate. All his feare was for a longfome difeafe and
infupportable paine, which the Lord mercifully prevented, far fooner nor I or
himfelf or any did expect, for till the laft day he ftill walked with his cloathes
on. In that morning, after a potion which he faid to me, in my ear, he
thought occafioned his greateft paine, he took fome fliotts of wind in his
bellie which tormented him fearfully, to a great crying of as great paine as
ever woman had at her laft ftioure : they were indeed the paffions of death :
one of thefe, was in the morning at nine, lafted above an hour, another, at
fix at night, greater and longer ; in both, allwayes crying to God in great de
votion and patience, befeeking a haftening of removeall. When the height
of thefe fitts were over, he craved all pardon for clamour, refted on God,
bleffed him, exhorted all to the love and fear of God, recommended to me
the care of his brother and fillers, exhorted me to a fpirituall walk and dili
gence to make ufe of my gift ; and then, about ten a' clock, compofed him
felf for reft : He moft quietly, without paine or motion, breathed out his
fpirit. Oft he told me, that many years before the Lord had fettled on very
good grounds his afTureance of eleftion and falvation ; this in all his paines
wes never brangled. He oft alfo profefTed, that one of the grounds of his
comfort was, that from his childhood, God had helped him to endeavour a
keeping of a good confcience ; that in the world he never had pleafure, but
the Scriptures of God had oft been his delight and great refrefhment. I can
write no more, this fad fubject, as ever I felt, makes me to clofe. The Lord
be with yow and all yours.
Your forrowfull Coufin,
[Glafgow, June 1658.] R. BAILLY.
Keep all thefe things to yourfelf : they are the infide of all our affaires,
which I defyre none to know from me but yourfelf alone.
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[FoR MR. ROBERT DOUGLASS.]*
SIR,
BEING defired by yow to give my opinion of Mr. R. his Preface to his
Survey of Mr. Hooker's Survey,2 with all reverence to my much honoured
and beloved Brother, I profefle my greef and fcandale with fome pages of it,
wherein I conceive, moft needlefly, he is pleafed, in the prefles of London,
among the midft of all the Sectaries, without any occalion, to fpit in the face
of our Mother Church, and to give her fo fore wounds without all caufe, that
I doe not wonder of that Reverend man,3 (whom Mr. R. wont to reverence,
and, as I think, yet does as much as any elfe living,) who, to diverfe of yow
in your High-flreets avowed, that before he had written any fuch things, he
could have rather choiced to have had his right-hand ftricken off at the
Croffe of Edinburgh by the axe of the hangman.
Mr. R. avowes, — That the Remonftrants among us are troubled on
every fide, in the ilreets, pulpits, in diverfe Synods, and Prefbyteries, more
than under Prelacy, and are made to cry to God, under their helplefs
affliction, that the prefent power and all men neglect their miferie. This,
to my beft knowledge, is utterly falfe. I know fundrie whom they have
perfecuted, and, by their favour with the prefent power, have keeped from
1 This letter contains Animadversions on the preface of a work by Samuel Ruther-
furd. The original is preserved in Wodrow MSS. Folio Vol. xxvi. No. 11. Except the
signature, and one or two verbal corrections, it is not in Baillie's own hand. Neither copy has
any address, but it appears (infra p. 387.) to have been written to Douglas.
2 In 1644, Mr. Samuel Rutherfurd published at London his large work " The Due Right
of Presbyteries : or a Peaceable Plea for the Government of the Church of Scotland :" To this
an elaborate answer was written by Mr. Thomas Hooker, in New England, but printed after
his death, as " A Survey of the Summe of Church-Discipline, &c." London, 1648, 4to. It was
this work that drew forth Rutherfurd's volume, " A Survey of the Survey of that Summe of
Church-Discipline penned by Mr. Thomas Hooker, late pastor of the church at Hartford upon
Connecticot in New England," &c. London, 1658, 4to, pp. 521. The publication having
been delayed, (supra pp. 303, 306,) the author took occasion to prefix to it an Address to the
Christian Reader, containing very severe remarks on the Resolution era, being the only portion
of the work on which Baillie animadverts in this letter.
3 This evidently refers to Mr. Robert Blair.
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all poflibilitie of remeed ; but I remember not any of them that has been
put to the lead fuffering. Sundrie of them, whom whole Synods hes de
clared unlawfullie admitted, are, to this day, keeped in their ufurped places,
by their greatnefs with the civill power. I have feen it too true what the
fore-mentioned Brother, reverenced by them as by us, wrote of them in
his letter, October 20th 1651, 4 That he ever feared that they would ufurp,
and rather put others to fuffer than fuffer themfelves ; and I have heard of a
mod precious and excellent man,5 who, with his colleague's continuall vexa
tions and contentions, was fo worn out, that he was put at lad to leave his
ftation, and accept of ane other, for to gaine fome quietnefs.
Thereafter we are challenged, in the ftreets of London, before all the Sec
taries, and from thence to the world, of Six particular crimes : Firll, That
we have framed an Engagement for the prefent power which we allow every
intrant' to the miniftrie to fubfcribe, or elfe to want his maintenance ; to wit,
their refolution " to live peaceably under the prefent government." That any
man, let be meeting of our mind, did ever frame any fuch write, is more
than I know, or ever before heard of; the lawfulnefs and expediencie of the
refolution itfelf, Mr. R. avows : now, that the fubfcribeing of what is lawfull
and expedient mould become unlawfull, when thefe in power requires it, we
muft be better taught before we take it on truft. Why (hould the like of
this be objected to us, when the whole Ifle knows that their partie procured,
and to their uttermofl did keep up, an order from the prefent power, That no
intrant to the miniftrie mould have any maintenance, but they alone to whom
they did give a teftimonie under their hand. With how great difficulty this
monument of their tyrannous injuftice was gotten overthrowne, the world
knows ; for this work was done before the fun.
The Second challenge : That our Synods make prelaticall acts to debarre
godly and able intrants from the miniftrie, becaufe they will not be fatiffied
with the Publick Refolutions. Surely unfatiffaction to thefe, to my knowledge,
was never cenfured among us. When, after much toile and debate, all on
both fides did profefle their willingnefs to lay afide publick agitation of need-
4 Baillie here refers to a letter that was addressed by Robert Blair to James Durham*-.
5 Mr. James Wood, Professor of Ecclesiastical History in St. Mary's College, (of which
Rutherford was Principal,) was translated in 1657 to be Principal of St. Salvador's or the Old
College, St. Andrews. Vide supra, pp. 316, 365.
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lefs queftions, if one Synod (for of more I have not heard it alleadged,) did
appoint their intrants to profefle this much peaceablenefs of mind, whatever
was their judgement, was this any great crime? I have knowne diverfe
very gracious and able intrants, without any Synodicall acts, by the fee-ret
actings of the faction, keeped out of places for no other caufe but their dif-
fatiffaclion with the way of the Remonftrants. That any one man can be
produced, who even for his public! preaching againft the Resolutions of the
Kirk and State was acluallie keeped out, is more than I think can be Ihowne :
I am fure it never was in the Synod where I live.
The Third challenge : That we make fuch a fubordination effentiall to Pref-
byteriall government as imports a neceffitie of Obedience to knowne unjuft
acts, even a tyrannicall and popifh, an abfolute and illimitat obedience.
Why mould fuch an untruth be faflened upon us, which is point-blank con-
trare to thefe our papers on which it is fathered, where we fpeak exprefly
of that, and no other fubordination, which, fince our late Reformation, from
1638 to the 1648, was in ordinarie practife among us without all queftion ;
which is the dodrine and practice of all Prelbyterians beyond fea; yea, of all
Proteftants who maintaine the jurifdi&ion of Affemblies. Why Ihould the
fword of fuch a calumnie be put in the hands of Sectaries againft us, that we
crave obedience to any of our judicatories, even when they command, not in
the Lord, but contrary to the law. Such a queftion to us is moved very im
pertinently ; for the world knowes, that we make no doubt but the acts of our
Affemblies pointed at, concerning the Publick Refolutions, are, fo farre, ac
cording to fcripture, reafon, and the fenfe of all churches, of all nations, both
friends and adverfares, that the oppofers of them will be diffallowed by all
unbyaffed men, to the world's end. Mr. R. might have remembered that the
queftion betwixt us and the faction, in the paper cited, was come to this ;
Whether, when we had fully agreed with them in all things elfe, and granted
all their defyres, they would be willing thereafter, without more debate, to
be obedient to the ordinarie Judicatories of the Kirk, as they and all were
wont, before the rife of the late queftions. This they flatly denyed, and
gave us a formall anfwer that they could promife neither to prefbyteries nor
fynods, as now conftitute, any fubjedion at all, in regard that the body of
our prefbyteries and fynods was made up of perfons fo faultie, as no fub-
je&ion was due to them ; and that their purgeing of all the judicatories
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behoved to precede their acknowledgement of any duetie to them as they
now (land. This to be the true Scots of their papers, both their formall
words, and conftant pra&ife fince that time, puts it out of all doubt.
That new ftarted queftion by them, we alleadge, it did aboliQi the very
foundation of Prefbyteriall Government in our Church ; for grant what
fubordination they pleafed to a prefbyterie in generall, or to a prefbyterie in
Utopia, or any where elfe, yet denying it to the Prefbyteries of Scotland, as
now they ftand, the Independents by this gets all their defire, by the over
throw of the whole government of our Church for the time, and ever till it
be framed over again according to the Remonftrants modell.
Farder, what here is added to that new Queftion, feems to overturne not
only the preflbyterie among us, but all government, civill and ecclefiaftick, in
all places for ever, and brings in every where a neceflitie of anarchic and con-
fufion ; that every particular perfon may and mud follow the judgment of his
own braine, without controll of any judge or judicatorie upon earth, whether
civill or ecclefiaftick. No Chriftian doth queftion but it is better to obey God
than men, and when it is known that God commands, the countermand of men
is not to be followed ; but the queftion is fuppofed alone in a matter of con-
troverfie betwixt the judicatories and a particular perfon. Let all the judica-
tories proceed as confcientiouflie as can be required : let the Seflion, Prefby
terie, Synod, Generall AfTemblie, yea, CEcumenick Councell, unanmouflie de
termine this to be the will of God : let a particular perfon pronounce them
all to erre ; — If fuch a perfon, not upon any truth, but his own falfe appre-
henfion that an error is truth, (hall be permitted to preach and act at plea-
lure, contrare to all judicatories, when they avow the truth and righteoufnefs
of their proceedings, and proves it fufficientlie, though they cannot convince
and fatiffie the obftinatelie erroneous perfon ; if fuch a practice be main
tained, fhall there be any order remaining under the fun ? What poffible
remeed (hall there be for the ending of any controverfie great or fmall, till
every Quaker, every Anabaptift, every Papift, be not only convinced within,
but brought to profefle without, the juftice of the fentence pronounced by
the Judicatories againft them ? This extravagancie cuts the finews of all
government ever was, is, or can be imagined : It makes every erroneous
perfon the fupreme judge on earth to himfelf of all queftions, without any
fubje&ion to any power ; were its judgement never fo right, if fo the errant
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man think it wrong, and adhere to his own fancie, though contrare to fcrip-
ture and reafon. It concerns our brethren, and all men on earth who are
for any government, as much as us, to fee to the ifTue of fuch conclufions.
The Judicatories believe their ads to be the will of God ; the particular
perfon believes his contradi&ion to be according to the will of God : the
Judicatories, all of them, higher and lower, propone their fcriptures and
reafons, wherewith the whole Church is fatiffied ; the erroneous perfon con
tinues refolute in his op'pofition and rebellion to all dire6tions of all Judi
catories on earth, unwilling to be filent for an hour. What fhall the end
be ? When our Generall AfTemblies, Synods, Preibyteries, Seflions, are
all call off, and when oppofers has joyned themfelves in new focieties of their
owne minde, what will they doe when that befalls them, which ever to this
day has been the ordinarie cafe of all thefe who has oppofed and divided
themfelves from the orthodox Church ? One or more of their company dif-
agree from their conclufions, contradict them, and counteract them ; when for
this they are reproved and cenfured, they deny fubordination in that cafe,
avowing themfelves to be right and their cenfurers wrong. What here fhall
be the remeed ? Muft all order give place to confufion for ever ?
The Fourth challenge is a fearfull railling againft the body of our minifterie,
and, as their papers for union fpeak, the pluralitie of our prefbyteries and fynods;
alfo againft the bodie of our people in all our congregations. The Quakers
may weell equall this language, but in any Independent that yet has written
I have not read the like. Experience might have taught our Brother at laft
to have written more modeftlie of others. He knowes how that exceeding
falfe Teftimonie againft the King and our laft Armie, moft unfeafonablie fent
before them in their laft marche into Lancafhyre, was receaved by the judi
cious brethren there ; and the no lefTe falfe witnefs for the Remonftrators
againft our Church fent thereafter to London, was receaved by the gra
cious brethren there. He knows likewife, I fuppofe, how the moft, if not all,
the fained fables which are the great grounds of this verie comprehenfive
flander, were convicted of evident falfehood in very publicl; audiences latelie
at London, where by the agents of the faction they were very boldlie fpread.
I am fure in the Synod where I live, where thefe invectives againft the crying
weaknefs and fcandalls of foul-murdering minifters, wont to be moft fre
quent and vehement ; fo foone as that partie, through their oppofites weari-
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nefs to contend, became maflers of the preflbyterie and fynod, we have heard
no more to count of concerning that fubjecl;. The few upon whom they tryed
their inquifition, after near ane hundred witnefles, befide all the elders, were
fworne upon their procefTe, were found honed men ; and although I have
heard fay ofter than once openlie in the face of the fynod, that the true
weaknefs and reall fcandalls of minifters would be found on their fide of the
houfe, yet, to this day, not any of their faction with us has been put to the
lead tryall : fo doe they purge the Church where they have no impediment !
The Fifth challenge is our receiving to the Covenant and Church-fellow-
fhip men who, again and again, had broken their ingagement. This needed
not to have been objected, for the taking of men's public!; repentance, even
when they are hypocrites, fo long as their hypocrifie does not appear, will
not be counted a fault except by Novatians and Donatifts. The unjuft
feveritie which fome men would have ufed in our land's extreme diftreffe was
the leiTe regarded, when their defigne became evident by this feveritie to
put the King and the armie, yea, the whole land, Church and State, in the
abfolute power of their owne fa&ion, in the mean tyme, when their prime
leaders intime familiaritie with thefe who had forfaken their Covenant, and
was excommunicat for it, did appear vifible. And what doe they fpeak of
Covenants who openlie has torne our Solemne League and Covenant in
peices, and at their own hand has cutted off divers prime articles from it ?
frameing to us a new one of their own mould ; which, had no the prefent
power impeded, behooved to have been fubfcribed by all who would not have
chofen to have been excluded from the focietie and advantages of their
godlie and thryving partie.
The Sixth challenge is but a repetition of the Fourth, that fo many unfuffi-
cient minifters are admitted by us. Our order of admiflion is as drift as in
any Reformed church ; nor has there for practice greater accuracie been ufed by
our Church in any bygane time than fince thefe late differences. If either
the way of tryall, or qualities of men admitted by us and our brethren, were
weell examined, it will be found that they needed not to have made any
challenge of this nature. They can difpatch, when their intered requires
it, all the tryalls, which ufe to cod us prefbyteriall meetings for a whole
quarter or half a-year, in one morning. Sundry are grieved with the great
weaknefs of many whom they have admitted mod upon the great qualification
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of a profefled zeale toward their faction. The challenging of us for ad
mitting fo many fcandalous and ignorant to the Lord's table, is but the
flrengthening the arme of calumniating Sectaries, whofe profefied aime long
has been the diffolution of all the flanding congregations in the Reformed
churches, that a new gathering of churches in their way may be fet a foot.
Doubtlefs more ftrictnefs is now generallie ufed among us than ever was
before in admitting to the Lord's table, and much more than is ufed in
any church over fea ; and whatever farder ftrictnefs either fcripture or reafon
fhall require, will not be refuifed by us.
It is in vaine to mention the Minifters of London, for they all weell know
how little their judgements in ourprefent debates is valued by the Remon-
flrants. When, after their full hearing of them and us, we were approven,
and the Remonftrants diflyked, did this hinder their agents, by the help of
their better friends the Independents, Anabaptifts, and Eraftians, their only
intime familiars and confidents, with whom they keeped frequent fallings and
prayers in their conventicles, to feek from the civill power a tyrannick jurif-
diction over us, for the ruine of all the prefent government of our Church ?
Was not this their paflionat perfute weell near for a whole year at London ?
which the Lord, cheefly by the wife and gracious endeavours of our Prefby-
terian brethren there, did break, or at leaft delay till this long. How much,
firft and lad, they have made themfelves the Godlie partie in Scotland, though
in the ftreatching of their charitie they will admitt fome of us to (land with
them in that catalogue, even this Preface will evidence. But that either in
the year 1648, or any year before or fince, the chief leaders of their partie
were counted by any but themfelves to fland in the firft rank of the Godlie
in our land, it is a great miftake ; and they will not doe weell to put to
the inqueift of their neighbours, the true pietie, let be the degree of it, of
fundrie no the meaneft of their faction.
So farre for the time I have told yow my mind of a few pages in that
Preface. I blefle the Lord that keeps yet yow and others there at the helme
of our Church, when from time to time new ftormes arife, from whom leail
they mould. The Lord continue yow ftill till better times come, when yow
may be better fpared than now yow can.
Your's to be commanded,
Glafgow, Julie 31ft 1658. R. BAILLIE.
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[FoR MB. WILLIAM SPANG.] GLASGOW, NOVEMBER HTH 1658.
COUSINE,
ALL yow fent with Robert Smith, with James Maxwell, and the box di
rected to George Sutie, your gear alfo, and all I think yow fent hither, I
receaved ; to yourfelf I ufe to fend no thanks, but to your kind wife, my
wife fends many. I am glad all your children are weell ; I pray God blefs
them all. Your count with Robert Smith fhall quickly be payed to your
nephew John : your one hundred and fifty gilders fhall be payed likewife,
with the firft of that legacie I receive of Dr. Strang's : the Colledge and yow
will reckon. I fhall, God willing, have fome eye on James Maxwell, and
on all yow fend hither. Your nephew Mr. William's heart ferved him mofl
for Ireland ; and I alfo did long much to have him in the miniftrie, without
the reach of our good faction : his profperous fuccefle yow will fee in the
inclofed. My boy Harie, blefled be God, growes in pietie, learning and
wifdom ; at his own defire I permitted him to goe to Sir James Dundas of
Arnifloun, near Edinburgh, to be his chaiplane for fome tyme, to fee fome
more of the world, and to fitt him to fpeak in publicl; : he always refents
your kindnefs and your kind wife's. I have thought fit to fend to yow the
fecond part of Dr. Strang's writ.6 The Latine that is printed either here or
at London, is fo exceedingly ill done, that I will be very loath, if I can other-
wayes doe, ever to employ them either for myfelf or others. I fent in Sum
mer, with one of our boyes, the memorandum yow have here ; yow fie the
Elfevir's anfwer. When yow get a fure bearer, fend the book to them, with
fo much incouragement from yourfelf and your friends as yow can, for them
to print it. If yow cannot get it done, fend it back to me with a fure hand,
but doe your beft to have it printed there ; for here it will be but fpoiled, for
all the Englifh fair promifes to the contrare. Give me an account of Elfevir's
returne to yow, fo foone as yow can.
Though fince my lafl large one, there is not much I can writ, yet to
6 Probably Dr. Strang's work, " De Interpretatione et Perfectione Scripturse ; ' the publication
of which, however, was completed at Rotterdam, but not before the year 1 663.
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fhew yow my diligence, have our affairs lince. Our Towne now is prettie
quiet, haveing at Michaelmes chofen not only fuch a proveift and baillies,
hot alfo a councell as hes not one man in hazard of Mr. Gillefpie's
accufations ; yet flill he is pyking fome one pettie quarrell or another,
to hold them waking. The chief difference is now about planting their
churches. Mr. Durhame, a little before his death, advifed for peace caufe
to put in his place one of three, Mr. Francis Aird, Mr. Ralph Rodger,
Mr. George Campbell ; not only fince his death, June 25th,7 hot fome moneths
before, Mr. Carflares, his brother-in-law, out of his exceffive affection, did
continuallie preach and pray of him, in a very extraordinary way, the nomin
ation of his fucceflbur, he took it weell near for ane oracle of God. My owne
judgement was that two of the three were very unfitt, and the third but of
very ordinarie fufficiencie. Mr. George Campbell, a boy of twenty yeares,
laureat two years ago with my Harie, who was in the circle with him, and in
all things thought his match but in his extreame flattering of Mr. Gillefpie :
this boy, when named, had never fo much as fpoken in any publicl exercife.
Mr. Francis Aird, of ordinary parts, but fo exceeding fickly, that halfe a
year's fervice of our towne was like to have buried him ; but he was good
enough, fince a prime Remonftrant. Mr. James Ferguffon, my fucceffor in
Kilwinning, was earneilly defired by the towne : my entres in Kilwinning
hindred me to joyne in his removeall thence, but I could not deny, that
evidently he was much fitter for us than any named. Mr. Patrick Gillefpie
led all our feffions whither he pleafed. Mr. George Young's power with
the Councell was no leffe. The fefiion went on firft with the unfitted, Mr.
George Campbell, though none of them ever had heard him preach ; the
towne protefting againft his election, till he were heard, he refufed the call.
The feffion fell next on Mr. Francis Aird. The towne fell on a very good
overture, that they mould joyne with the feffion in the call of any whom
they pleafed, if fo they would joyn with the Councell in a call to Mr. James
Ferguffon, for whom they mould provide both a new church and a new
ftipend, as good as any other, which would have been above fourtie thoufand
merks charge to them ; this was fo fair, that the moft of the fefiion was
readie to have accepted it, but Mr. Patrick caufed it to be fhifted ; fo the
7 In the MS. the date has been altered, apparently from June to July, but Durham's
death took place in the former month.
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towne refuifed to joyn in Mr. Francis Aird's call, and on this difference he
could not hearken to it. Therefore, lad, the feflion called Mr. Ralph
Rodger, who is as unliklie to accept as the reft. The end of it, I think, (hall
be that the feflion, being refuifed by all the three, will turn themfelves to fome
headie one of the faction, who will like their call the better that the Magif-
trats oppofe it ; and the body of the towne finding themfelves fo miflhantlie
abufed, and continuallie tyrannized over, without hope of remeed, will en
deavour, as it is in Stirling and Lithgow, the erecting of a new Seflion, with
the mifregard of the old. This had been done ere now, if I had not both
openly and by my owne private wayes oppofed it. Strange, what a few
yeares will produce ! Some foure yeares agoe, when our Prefbyterie and
Synod both divided, I was the laft who confented to that divifion, and when
thereafter, Mr. George Young and Mr. James Ferguffbn, on very ill termes,
had made the reunion, I was the only man who then and to this day refuifed
it ; and now no man repents more that union than the contryvers of it, for
had our divifion but a little continued having the falhion of a Prefbyterie
and Synod, we might legally and orderly have planted new fefiions in Glaf-
gow, and gotten a legall call and tranfportation to Mr. James Fergufibn, or
any we had lyked : that this now can no be gotten, the authors of that evill
union now grieves, and I laugh at their too late repentance.
For the Colledge, we have no redrefTe of our difcipline and teaching. Mr.
Gillefpie's work is building, and pleas ; with the dinn of mafons, wrights,
carters, fmiths, we are vexed every day. Mr. Gillefpie, alone for vanitie to
make a new quarter in the Colledge, hes caft downe my houfe to build up
ane other of greater (how, but farr worfe accommodation ; in the meane[while,]
for one full year, I will be, and am exceedingly incommodat, which I bear
becaufe I cannot help it. And alfo becaufe Mr. Gillefpie hes ftrange wayes of
getting money for it, by his own induftry alone ; an order he got from the
Protector of five hundred pound fterling, (but for an ill-office to the countrie,
his delation of fo much concealed rent yearly of the Crown ;) alfo the vacancy
of all churches, wherein the Colledge had entres : this breeds clamour
as the unjuft fpoill of churches and incumbents. Upon thefe foundations
are our palaces builded ; but withall our debts grow, and our flipends are not
payed ; for by his continuall toying our rent is mouldered away. When our
magiftrates reprefented this, and much more, in a libell againft him, his good
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friend, Swintoun, obtained to him a fair abfolution from all without any cog
nition of the matter ; but to pleafe the Toune, his accufations againfl them
were alfo as good as waved.
Ever fince Dr. Strang's dimiffion our oeconomie hes been in an ill condition ;
the matters wont to have the beft table in the country, and payed no more
than fifty merks in the quarter ; but thereafter, for the bettering of the
table, four pound flerling was allowed in the quarter ; a very high rate.
Yet when I was latt in Edinburgh, Mr. Gillefpie had agreed with a new
(Economics for five pound ilerling a quarter, and to bring all the Divinitie-
burfars to a fecond table at fiftie merks a quarter, and the Philofophie-burfars
at a third table for twenty four pounds a quarter. With this I was not content,
for it burdened our rent with above five hundred merks of needlefs charges
yearly. For the Principall and four Regents twenty pounds fterling ; for
the fix Divinitie-burfars of the fowne we behoved to add one hundred
pound, becaufe Struthers's two and Wilfon's two had but eighty pounds a piece;
and when Mr. Zacharie's three were turned to two they would be bot
ninety pound a piece. So, among thefe fix, a hundred pound was needfull to
make them fifty merks in the quarter a-piece : the fix of the new donation
for Divinitie, and as many for Philofophie, had to doe their own turne. I
thought alfo, that the towne boyes would be hurt who would get nought but
their boord, which they had freely from their parents or friends, and employ
ed their penfion on books and cloathes ; alfo, fundry moil hopefull young
men would refufe, for fhame, to come to a Burfars-table. Againft this was
alleadged, the comelie order of all other Colledges, and the grudge of the
fchollars when fome were put to the table, and fome not ; for the charge,
that the fourth vacation quarter of the twelve burfars of the new donation
would doe much to fupply it : hereupon I was content they mould try
it for one year.
At our counts we did not well agree, yet had no dinn. The Magiftrates
were not called to them, which was againft both right and cuftome. I re-
fufed to fubfcry ve without an exprefs exception of the article of fix thoufand
merks for Mr. Gillefpie's journey to London. The other year, when I was
in Edinburgh, Mr. Gillefpie had obtained from the Facultie twenty millings
fterling a day, for the eleven moneths he had been in England, befide three
or four thoufand merks of other charges in particular accompts. This, to me,
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was unfupportable ; for his vaft expenfes before, and the lownefs of the prices
of victuall, had put us that we were hardly able to defray our ordinary charge.
But this donative I forefaw would make us unable, for fome years to come, to
win to our very ftipends. Upon this we had a found reckoning in the nixt
Facultie ; Mr. Gillefpie aflerting his lofle in that journey, and his great fervice
to the Colledge in the great gifts he had obtained. To the firft I faid little ;
for I knew indeed he had fpent large fumms that year, and I doubt if twenty
thoufand merks, one way and another, did not pafle through his fingers : But
I faid his expence concerned not the Colledge, for that journey was not at
all for us, but for the fervice of his partie, to trouble the Church : that the
commiflion he had from fome of us, (from myfelf he had none,) it was but
on the by, in his fpare time, to deale for the profits of the Colledge ; what
he had done in this kind 1 was very willing he mould be liberallie acknow
ledged, but out of the profits of what he acquired, not out of our other
rent, which could not bear it : Withall I told him, that we were not in ufe
to give money to the purchafers of our gifts, much above all his ; that the
purchafers of the parfonage of Govane, of Kilbride, of Renfrew, of the BiQiop-
rick of Galloway, had not receaved of the Colledge a groat. The end was,
I diflented ; the reft went on, as his own filly creatures, ready to doe what
ever he defired. The clamours of his utter infufficiency, for any thing of a
fchollar, made him, at the laft Laureation, make long prayers, and orations,
and difputations, in Latin ; which he faid in a jolly way. He found that Mr.
Thurloe, Secretar of State, had been very inftrumentall to doe Mr. Sharp's
bufinefs at London againft all his delignes. To draw that man off us towards
himfelf and partie, he invents this trick : In a Facultie meeting he prefles
the expediencie of having a courtier Chancellor of our Univeriitie, and that
Thurloe was fitted. I was againft all Englilh flefh ; but he carried it, and
fent up to him a fealed parchment of that honour. But before that came,
we got Mr. Thurloe informed of the defigne, who therefore civillie refufed
it. But the beft was, to choice a Vice Chancellor ; I could not dream of
the purpofe while it was done ; himfelf, by all but me, was voted Pro- Can-
cellarius, fo I laugh when I fee this noveltie alfo in his fubfcription, " Pat.
Gillefpius Pro-Cancellarius et Prsefeclus :" A poor glory !
Our Church lyes as it did : the Reprefentation printed by Mr. Sharp at
London, they durft never afiay to anfwer ; but our late Declaration of new
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defires of peace, they anfwered a peece of it with a very bitter pamphlet ; to
which Mr. Rutherfoord printed a preamble in his Preface to a late anfwer to
Hooker. Being defired, I fent my obfervations on that preamble8 to Mr.
Douglafs ; but on that and their whole pamphlet, Mr. Hutchefon hes writ
ten a very accurate and folide Review,9 with fome additions of Mr. Wood's ;
all which I think are now on the prefie. It is very like the end of this ob-
ftinate difference will be a formall reparation : the fooner the better for the
Kirk ; for they abide among us only to encreafe their partie ; and if they were
formally feparate, they could doe us the lefie harme.
The Countrey lyes very quiet ; it is exceeding poor ; trade is nought ;
the Englifh hes all the moneyes. Our Noble families are almoft gone :
Lennox hes little in Scotland unfold ; Hamilton's eftate, except Arran and
the Baronrie of Hamilton, is fold ; Argyle can pay little annuelrent for
feven or eight hundred thoufand merks ; and he is no more drowned in
debt than public!; hatred, almoft of all, both Scottifh and Englifli ; the
Gordons are gone ; the Donglaffes little better ; Eglintoun and Glencairn
on the brink of breaking ; many of our chief families [e] dates are cracking ;
nor is there any appearance of any human relief for the tyme. What is
become of the King and his family we doe not know : fome talks that he
mould be in the Hague : many takes his unkindnefs to Balcarras very ill ;
efpecially that he Ihould oppofe his Ladie's provifion to the overfight of the
little Prince of Orange : His obflinate obfervance of Hyde offends all ; bot
what he minds, no man here knows, and few cares.
The Protector's death was unexpected : the way of it we doe not learn ;
men fpeak as they lift. What fome fpeak, of troubles of bodie and mind,
and, after a fuarfe, the crying out of the Devill and an Northerne armie,
muft be but a fable. We were feared for trouble after his death, but all
is fettled in peace. We doubted what might become of the Officers of
the armie their petition for the Generalise to Fleetwood ; if they infift in
it, it cannot but breed evill blood ; but they are wifer than to differ when
fome would be glad of it.
8 In a letter which is printed supra, p. 375.
9 " A Review and Examination of a Pamphlet lately published, bearing the title of Pro
testers no Subverters, &c.— By some Lovers of the Interests of Christ in the Church of Scot
land. Edinburgh, printed Ann. Dom. 1659," 4to. pp. 139.
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For things abroad, this is t'le common fenfe ; that fince all this year the
French hes ravaged in Flanders at their pleafure ; hes taken in Dunkirk,
Graveling, Hirer, Oudenard, and many moe townes ; fince the Spaniard hes
not been able to keep the field ; fince his fortune in Millan and Catalonia hes
been little better, and all he makes in the end of the year, to relieve Badajos
in Caftill, fo near Madrid, from the long fiege of the Portugals, be within
twenty thoufand men ; it's thought his condition every where is very low,
and the Frenches very high, fo that the former danger from the Monarchy
of Spaine may quickly become as great from the Monarchy of France, and
that all neighbours, for their own fafetie, may be forced to guard as much
againft the one, as they wont to doe againft the other. What the great
caufes have been to draw back the Swedes from Pomer to Copenhagen, we
are expecting to know by that peece lately printed, at London, for that end.
All marvell that the Danes, after all their cowardice, have been able fo long
to defend Copenhagen from the victorious Swedes. Brandeburg's armie, and
his confederate Auftrian and Poler, is great in Holften ; but the countrey,
by thefe pretended friends, is plundered to the bones. I fear Brandeburgh
(hall pay dear for that rode. We hear that Opdam, in the Sound, hes
done yet naught againft the Swedes ; and that the fear of the French and
Englifli will keep your States from all action there, for all the (hew they have
made. Upon this men's eyes are fixed more than on any thing elfe : for if
they mould yoke in earned againft the Swedes, all doe think the French and
Englifh will fall on them, both by fea and land, and neither the Spaniards
nor High Dutch will be able to maintain them. The Lord himfelf guide
thefe great affaires. We blefs God that the Turkifh threats hes this year
produced no more harme, neither to Ragotfi nor the Venetians. It feems
the articles of Munfter are totallie tread under foot ; yet it will be a hard
pull to caft the Swedes out of Breme, Pomer, and Pruis, and the French
out of Alfatia and Lorain. It's much that Torn has flood out all this
year. What is the caufe that Douglafs is the man employed in Lifland,
and not Lagard ?
Here I muft end, wiftiing all welfare to your wife and children. My wife
fends to your's a half-barrell of herring, the beft my friend could get.
Your Coufin,
R. B.
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POSTSCRIPT.
In Edinburgh, at their election, there fell out a paflage much againft the
mind of many. Sir Andrew Ramfay,1 a right fharp young man, but very
proud, had carried himfelf for two yeares in the place of Proveift, very
haughtilie; and in his abode at London had been at vaft charges to the
Towne for no profit ; yet was flill in hope to have gotten from the Protector
what might have done the Towne good in their exceeding low condition. Mr.
Thomfon, the Clerk, who had brought him to his place, became very ungra
cious to him, by the fuggeftion moft of Baillie Jaufie, who delireing to have
his fon conjunct clerk with W. Thomfon, was refufed, on fear that fuch a
conjunct mould put himfelf to the door. Upon this differing, the Provofl
and that Baillie, did what they could to bear down the Clerk, and were readie,
when able, to have muffled him from his place. The Clerk, and all the
Towne, would moft gladlie had Archibald Sincerf for Proveift, the farr fitted
for the charge : bot Ramfay keeped Sincerf2 from the lites, according to the
late a6t of the Englifh Parliament, for his guilt of the Ingadgement ; and got
on the lites himfelf, Baillie Jaufie,3 and (being perfuaded that none would give
him a vote, ) Sir James Stewart.4 Thomfon finding it fo, he wrought underhand,
that any living might be chofen rather than his enemies Ramfay or Jaufie :
thus Sir James caried it. This offended many, and feared them, leift (the man
being very wife and active, and an open favourer of the Remonftrants,) it
might make a great change in Edinburgh and all the land for that parties ad
vancement. When I met with Thomfon, my good friend, I railed on him,
that for revenge of his private fpite and fpleen againft Ramfay, he had be
trayed the publi6t intereft into the hand of a Proteftor. I was impatient of
all apologies ; yet I hear Sir James has given affurances enough to Mr. Robert
Douglafs, and others, and denyes his Remonftrantifm. For myfelf, I do not
1 Lord Fountainhall, in his MS. Decisions, has preserved an account of the litigation be
tween Sir Andrew Ramsay of Abbotshall and certain inhabitants of the Town, for his having,
at a subsequent period, continued to hold the office of Provost of Edinburgh for the space of
no less than twelve successive years, during part of which time he was also a Lord of Session.
2 Archibald Sydeserf was First Baillie in 1656.
3 John Jossie was First Baillie in 1655 and 1657 ; and again in 1660.
4 The father of Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees. He was Lord Provost in 1648 and 1649.
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weell believe, nor much truft him ; but feares the great evill of this pranck
of the clerk : Sir James once caft him out of his place ; if he doe it again,
n man will pitie him.
Being wearied, I have now laid afide my Chronologie. I have drawn the
ilorie, facred and profane, mortlie from the fountains through the whole Old
Teftament, in feven epochas, to every one of which I have fubjoyned the
inoft of the ordinarie queftions of chronologic ; and, after a prettie free debate
with all forts of men, determines them after myne owne mind. I have alfo
fett downe the ftorie of the New Teftament, the firft epocha of it to the
death of John the Evangelift, and at the back of it, feventeen of the chiefeft
queftions : Being tyred, I fubfift : It may be I revife it and adde more quef
tions, efpeciallie from the Apocalypfe ; therefore what yow find of new books
that may further me in this defigne, let the Colledge have them : I think
we want few of the old. This year's ftudie I caft it on the noble head of
J uftification, moft to meet with Bifliop Forbes, printed latelie at London by
Mr. Thomas Sincerf, Bifhop of Galloway, T. G.5 and our moderat midmen,
whom I have efteemed, ever fince I knew them, reall Papifts in the moft and
maine ; alfo to meet with Baxter, whom albeit I highly efteem for pietie and
learning, yet I think a very unhappie bruiller, a full avowed Amiraldift, and
a great confounder of the head of Justification. I pray yow in your firft to
Voetius, remember my heartie fervice to him, and tell him from me, that
many his lovers here long for a third volume of his Difputations ; alfo, that
they exceedingly defyre fome Exercitations from him on the way of Amirald,
and that the head of Juftification were vindicat by him from Baxter and
Forbes, and all other adverfars. We love here very well Marefius's writts,
all but his bitter Sittings with Voetius : We long to hear, that thefe two very
eminent and ufefull men were better friends. What yow fent us of Jefuit
Sempill is but a preface2 to his Dictionarium Mathematicum, which we pray
yow fearch for.
5 The initials, T. G. (Thomas Gallovidiensis) stand at the Editor's preface of the post
humous work of Bishop Forbes referred to, " Considerations Modestae et Pacificae Contra,
versiarum de Justificatione, Purgatorio, Invocatione Sanctorum, &c. London, 1658, small 8vo.
pp. 466. The Editor, Thomas Sydeserff, was the only one of the Scotish Prelates deposed
in 1638 who survived till the Restoration of Charles II.
6 Hugo Sempilius Craigbateua Scotus, De Mathematicis Disciplinis. Antwerpise, 1635, folio.
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FOR HIS REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER, MR. SIMEON ASHE.
REVEREND AND DEAR BROTHER,
THESE are to let yow know my defy re to underftand your welfare, and if
it be well with gracious Mr. Calamie, Dr. Reinolds and others our dear
Brethren there. BlefTed be God, your acquaintance here are all as before,
except that our unhappy Remonftrants continue in their obflinacie. My
maine purpofe to yow at this time is, to let yow know that Mr. Baxter does
us more harme than all your Sectaries. The man's pietie and parts make
us ftill honour, pitie, and fpare him ; but his intolerable boldnefs, after his
avowed Amiraldifme, to follow and goe beyond miferable John Goodwin,
in confounding the great head of Juftification with fuch a flood of new and
unfound notions, does vex us : fince, this fame year he has written fo largely
in this point againft Mr. Burgefle, we earneftlie defyre that he would
feriouflie reply ; yea, that Dr. Reinolds, or if ye have any abler pen, would
take him to talk in all his errors, which truely he has a way to infinuate more
than any heterodox I know hi this fide of the fea. I entreat that fome of
yow would advife how to gett this dangerous evill remeded, at leift flopped.
Your addreffe by Dr. Reinolds to his Highnefs, before the Independents by
Dr. Goodwin, I doe not weell underfland how it was not a very folemne and
public buriall of the Solemn League and Covenant ; but here we are exceed
ing fpareing to put any cenfure upon any of your proceedings, the grounds
and reafons whereof, at fuch a diftance, we do not underftand. Our prayer
to God for yow is, that yow may be all faithfull to your Mailer to death, that
yow may receive the crown of life ; fo prays
Your much honouring and loving Brother,
Glafgow, November 29th 1658. R. BAILYE.
[FoR SIR JAMES DUNDAS OF ARNISTON.]
RIGHT WORSHIPFULL,
YOUR kindnefs to my boy has been fo great, that I know no how ever I
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(hall be even with yow for it. When I had thought fitt to fend him to fome
farailie for one year, to ferve [as] a chaplane,7 for to help his breeding, yow were
not only willing to receive him, but to ufe him all the while as a child, not
as a fervant ; and now, Sir, by your great favour having obtained in fome
meafure my de'figne upon him, and finding myfelf fallen more tender than
before, my purpofe is to have him at home after the terme, but fo that he
(lay till yow gett another. Surely your patience and difpenfing with all his
infirmities, and taking all his mean endeavours in fo good a part, has putt
upon me a greater obligation than I will be able to difcharge ; and whatever,
Sir, I could doe with yourfelf, yet what to doe with my Lady, your Mother,
I know not, who has been fo kind and tender towards my boy. My purpofe
is to pray God for her Ladyfliip's welfare, and the profperitie of your whole
familie, and, when I come to Edinburgh, to come out and acknowledge in
prefence what now I write. Praying the Lord to blefs your Wormip, and all
yours, I reft
Your Wodhip's mod obliged friend and fervant,
Qlafgow, llth April 1659. R. BAILIE.
FOR HIS REVEREND BROTHER MR. ROBERT DOUGLASS, MINISTER AT
EDINBURGH. APRIL HTH 1659-
V
»SlR,
I HAVE thought fitt to fend yow this account of our Synod and our other
affaires. Underftanding a defigne of the Remonftrants, fome weeks before
the Synod, to have a petition fent up to the Protector and Parliament againft
Toleration, from the Synod of Glafgow, and their three correfpondent Synods
of Galloway, Dumfries and Argyle, I did defire fome who came to falute me
to beware of that motion, for thefe and the like Reafons. 1. This petition
will be a formall addrefie to the prefent power as the Supream Magiftrate,
which no Church Judicatorie in Scotland had ever yet attempted, and Glaf
gow Synod (hould not begin without the advyce at lead of the Synod of
Lothian and Fife, equallie concerned in that motion. 2. The petition to pre-
7 Baillie's only surviving son, Henry, had gone to be chaplain in the Arniston family, near
Edinburgh, (vide supra, p. 382,) and it appears he had been treated with great kindness.
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ferve that part of our Covenant which toleration deftroys, with filence of all
other articles of our Covenant which now are openly laid afide and deftroyed,
does avow our contentment with or neglect of the violation of all the other arti
cles againft which we doe not petition : So much the more as many of the peti
tioners are known to have framed a new Covenant wherein many articles of
the former are deftroyed and fcraped out. 3. The Toleration we petition
againft is that which now is in pra6life, according to the petition and advyfe
eftablifhed in the late Parliament, for the fundamentall Government of the
three Nations ; while we except only againft one article of that act of Govern
ment, we doe add our feal to that not excepted againft. 4. The Toleration
we petition againft is like fhall not be full, as in our uncontroverted Aflem-
blies our defires againft toleration doe ftand : We muft be filent of Indepen
dents, Anabaptifts, and Eraftians, thefe being the chief ftatefmen who muft
agent our petition, or elfe it is like it will never be read. 5. What fecuritie
fhall we have that our commiflioner againft Toleration, when he comes to Lon
don, fhall not as much endeavour advantages to the Remonftrant partie as
any thing elfe contrarie to the late articles of union of this Synod ; yea, is it
not like that the petitioning againft toleration, which none hes hope will be
granted, is but a mere pretence for putting on their defignes. 6. If the
pluralitie of the Synod conclude any fuch commiffion, can the difTenters be
guarded againft a charge of horning for payment of their proportion of what
ever expence a committee fhall modifie for carying on that petition.
When Judge Ker and Sir John Cheifly appeared as elders in the Synod,
their defignes were fufpected the more, yet no fuch motion was made till towards
the end of the AfTembly ; at the back of an other triviall act it was like to have
been paft without obfervation, yet Mr. W. Eccles and Mr. R. Wallace topped
it fo that it was fent to a committee to be debated ; there, after much debate,
it was refolved to acquaint the Synod of Lothian with the motion, and un-
lefs they gave them fatiffactorie reafons to the contrare at the next diet of
the adjourned Synod in the end of May, to proceed with the petition, and to
fend (for the opponents fatiffaction,) Mr. P. Colvill up with it. Mr. P.
Gillefpie told them, that fo foon as his health and affaires would permitt him,
he would goe to London, but for no man's pleafure would medle with that
petition, nor any thing controverted betwixt any parties. In this he had the
ill-luck to be believed but by few. Sir John told, that he had oft been fent
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for to come up to London upon advantagious tearms, but dill had refufed,
and would not go. I was glad that unhappie petition was to come fo
flatly to your door : I doubt no but you will deal well enough with it.
I can obferve no relenting at all in that good faction. Their cruelty
againft poor Mr. R. Hume is ftrange. The parifliioners of Badernock,
Montrofe, Keir, and all the heritors, with almoft all the prefbyterie, people,
and feffion, would gladly have Mr. John Anderfon there placed, but Mr.
R. Law hes ftirred up a few headie fellows of Bamor to prefle for Mr. Nicol
Black, a domeftick of Mr. James Guthrie's. For the furthering of that de-
figne the Synod has joyned a committee, of their fharpefl hooks, with that
Prefbyterie for planting that kirk : without hoft, contrary to the Act of the
Prefbyterie of Irvine, and all the dilfents and proteflations of our towne, they
appoint Mr. Ralph Rodger, before the firft of June, to come hither.
Many were greeved, when the Judges were here, that one Foyer was not
hanged ; a mod wicked hypocrite, [who,] under the colour of pietie and prayer,
hes acted fundry adulteries ; but by fome of our faction (to whom he was too
dear,) their dealing with the Judges, no more was put in his libell than one
adulterie, for which he was but fcourged : great appearance of his witchrie alfo,
if he had been put to a reall tryell. Yet that which greeves us mod for the
time is the very heavie oppreflion of our towne in all their plantations. Our
feflion, by an Act of the lafl General AfTemblie, claimes a divine right to
elect the minifter, albeit our feffion for the time is nought bot the good
pleafure of Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, who abfolutely rules it ; the Prefbyterie is
no lefle obfequious. The whole parifh, almoft all the houfholders of Mr.
George Young's congregation did unanimoufly draw a petition to the feffion
for a call to Mr. James Ferguflbn ; wherefore the feffion this day made read
out of all pulpits ane admonition againft the miforderly fubfcriving of papers,
and that the feffion, according to their right, would provide them of a mini-
fter. The other Sabbath, Mr. James Blair, minifter of Cathcart, the firft
whom the Prefbyterie had ordained to fupply Mr. G. Young's place, did
preach to the Magiftrates in their faces that their oppofition to the feffion in
plantation of their churches (which was only by a petition to the Prefbyterie
and Seffion, now the third time, for Mr. James Ferguftbn) would draw on
them the punifhment of Core, Dathan and Abiram ; and much more evil Is
were threatened paffionatly by that weak young man againft them, for their
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rebellion againfl Jefus Chrifl. We are exceedingly grieved that there is no
vifible remead againft thefe violent unreafonable ufurpations of proud men. I
humbly pray yow to let me know your mind, if ye know any remedie poffi-
ble againft this hardly tolerable tyrannic That which many here would
be at, if they cannot have Mr. James Ferguffon, [is] to deall with fome flout
honeft man, Scots or Englifh, who on the Magiftrates, Councell, and Peoples
call, will be induced to come under the protection of the Englifh, with a de
fiance to Seffion, Prefbyterie, and Synod, all which, they fay, is nought. but
their adverfarie, Mr. Gillefpie. This I underftand not. My owne remedie is a
Generall Affembly, if fo yow in your wifdomes there find not that cure worfe
than all our difeafe. I think Mr. Sharp might eafily obtaine to us a Generall
Affembly ; and that he might get it cautioned againft the moft, if not all our
feares ; but this is a Spagyrick cure in a defperate cafe, which I muft leave
to your wifdomes. Indeed, we languifh and daily decay ; and if yow there
have no other remead for us but this third, I mail acquiefce to it, though I
think ere long it will come nearer to yow when we are gone : I meane, that
ftill we mall be patient fufferers, when they in their high pride thruft in on
us whomever they pleafe. However, my intreft in the familie of Eglintone
and parim of Kilwinning hinders me to move for Mr. James Ferguffon's
removall from them ; yet without all doubt, he were the meeteft man
in Britaine for this place, for many evident good ends, and therefore thefe
good men are fo peremptorie againft him.
Your very loving and much honouring Friend,
R. BAILLIE.
FOR HIS REVEREND BROTHER MR. R. DOUGLASS, MINISTER OF
EDINBURGH.
SIR,
We have fent unto yow this expreffe. By what the town and I writ to
Mr. Sharp, yow will fee our condition : yow will read and clofe them. I doe
conceive our Church and Land was never in fo great hazard to be hurt by
the Sectaries and Remonftrators as this hour. And however I fee no
appearance of any friends to us with this prefent power, yet I conceave it
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exceeding neceflare that Mr. Sharp (hould flay ftill a little while longer.
M. P. G[illefpie] is thought here to have taken journey this day, with the
Lady Swinton, towards London. He expec~ls no lefs than afk and have ; yet
1 truft the Lord will marr him nothing the lefs that he has no vifible impedi
ment. Having little more adoe in the Weft, I think they will begin the
execution of their new orders on Lothian and Fife. The Lord help yow,
who, under Chrift, are at the helme of* our poor tofled Church in this
high danger. Your's,
May 18th 1659. R. BAILLY.
Will Mr. Blair ever be filent, and never neither fpeak nor write one
word for us ?
FOR HIS REVEREND AND WEEL-BELOVED BROTHER, MR. JA. SHARP,
MINISTER AT CREEL.*
DEAR BROTHER, Glafgow, May 18th 1659.
I WISH this may overtake yow before your coming from London ; how
ever, let me know if it comes to your hands. My neighbour, P. G., albeit
he have as much to ty him at home as any man I know, having involved
himfelf and us in great buildings, in a bargaine alfo of a thoufand pound
fterling for tithes, and many law pleas ; yet yefterday morning going to loup
on, as we thought, for Edinburgh, he told us he was goeing ftraight to Lon
don for urgent bunnefies of his owne. I know he expects the quick grant
of any thing he can defire from thofe that now are in power, and many here
fear he will renew all his former irrationall defires for the prejudice of our
Church, of our Towne, of our Colledge ; nor know we who will oppofe him,
but that, without all hearing and debate, by my Lord Fleetwood, Lord Lam
bert, and Dr. Owen, his familiar friends, he fhall obtaine whatever he lykes :
His former committees, for ftipends, yea, for tryall and cenfure, of his owne
nomination, yea, whatever new forme he and Warrifton fhall invent for our
8 The original (Wodr. MSS. Folio, vol. xxvi. No. 17,) is addressed on the back, as above,
in Baillie's hand, but without any signature or mention of the year. In his 4to MS. of Let
ters, the year 1(559 is given ; but the letter itself would have fixed that date.
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whole Church ; lykwife, the renewing of that late act of Parliament for quali
fications of magiftrates in burgh and land, with fuch additions that their partie,
to the great hurt and difquiet of the land, may be put prefentlie in place ; and
though Glafgow have conformed themfelves to that a6l, yet by new calumni
ous inventions he will endeavour to have them difplaced. One James For-
lyd [Forfyth], not to be Laureat before Lammes, his wife's fitter's fon or
oye, mutt be, without tryall, put in a Regent's place at Michaelmes : that a
place may vaik, he deals with Mr. Patrick Young to dimit ; on his refufeall
he boafts him with a proceffe. When he finds that will not doe except he
can carie more votes in our Facultie than in that caufe he is confident of, he
refolves to bring in more members to vote with us. Alwayes before it was
his care that no Towne minifter mould be a member of our Facultie, and put
them off who were on, and to this day keeped them off; but now, on a meer
defire to ftrengthen us, he propones to bring in Mr. R. M'Quard to be our
Vice- Chancellor, and Mr. Alexander Jamefone to be Deane of Facultie.
The mofl part of the Facultie knowing perfectlie the defigne, though too
folemnlie denyed, did refufe the motion. To make Mr. Thurloe a friend to
himfelf and his party, he fent him up for a bud, a patent from the Colledge
of the Chancellorihip, which I doubt Mr. Thurloe never accepted, being in
formed of the defign ; yet in thankfullnefs he got Mr. G. the Protector's
hand to a charter, and command to us, to add to Mr. Gillefpie's ftipend of
a hunder and fourtie pound, out of our rents, whether new or old, a hunder
pound more yearlie dureing life, with a narrative altogether untrue and
unjufl. When he named Mr. Thurloe, Chancellor he took to himfelf the
Vice-Chancellorfhip, and fince has ever fubfcribed Principall and Vice-Chan
cellor ; but yefterday morning he peremptorlie layes doune his Vice-Chan
cellorfhip that it might be put on Mr. R. M'Quard, to be fure of a new
vote. This we caried over him, that the Chancellor mould name the Vice-
Chancellor. His purpofe and profeflion both is to move Mr. Thurloe to put
his Vice on his confident Mr. M'Quard. I am fure if you prevent Mr.
Thurloe with a right information he would not doe it ; for I believe that Mr.
Thurloe never accepted that vaine-glorious place, or if he did, that at this
time he will be loath to medle with it ; and however, if he knew that our
Chancellor never named a vicar, but by the advyce, confent, yea, defire of
the whole Facultie, would not in this oppreffive defigne, hurtfull to our houfe,
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ferve Mr. G[illefpie's] humor. James, doe your bed in this, and, by whom
God will be pleafed to help yow, lay a dray in Mr. G.'s gate, though I know
no faint now yow or we have there but the Wife's of Kilmarnock, Jefus
Chrift alone, when the Reformers had pulled from her all images (he wont to
pray to : Weell is us that Chrift cannot be pulled off his throne. By all
means ftay there awhile, were it but to be a witnefs of our countreymen's
great infolencies. The Lord be with yow, and give yow courage and
direction.
Your's to ferve yow on occafion heartilie,
R. B.
FOR HIS REVEREND AND WEEL-BELOVED BROTHER, MR. JAMES SHARP,
MINISTER AT CREEL.
JAMES,
I AM glad yow are there, and fo weell accepted. Yow have alwayes
favoured our Towne, and all what concerned any of them. The bearer of
this, Robert Cummin and James Ker, are fent up by their partners for a par
ticular of great lofle and oppreffion, for which our Proved wrote earneftlie to
the Generall, and received a very kind and promifing anfwer. Thefe are to
intreat yow to hear the matter and information, and help my neighbours by
your bed directions and aflidance.
The enclofed is a double of one I fent to yow by Mr. Douglafs,
before yow came lad from London ; I fand after it never came to yow,
whereof I was not very weell content. I hope, if things go right there,
(whereof yet I am in doubt, fince in their approbation of our Confefiion
of Faith, they except the thirtieth and thirty-fird chapter, to which no
Se&arie gave in a dhTent, but only two Eradians, that the world may know,
within their jurifdi&ion, Chrid may be allowed no fpirituall government of
his Church ; this is weell begun) : I hope yow will get us Vifitations for all
our Univerfities, who hes great need of them, if we can get weell-fitting
(heriffs, elfe better to want them, and that we continue under our prefent
preflburs till a better tyme. Only, in the mean while, I widi yow advert to
Mr. Gillefpie's diligence for our houfe. He hes written to the Generall to
get all our former gifts confirmed in Parliament ; and to William Thomfon
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to be his agent herein. I refufed my hand to this, though I wifh he got the
thing, only with the exception of one gift, mod unjuft, a hundred pound fter-
ling a-year, out of our rents, to himfelf yearly, befide his flipend. Mr.
Thurloe, whom I am glad to fee again Secretary of State, got to him this
order from the Proteclor, Richard, on three very falfe narratives. 1. That
he was not fufficiently provided, while he has ane hundred and fourty pound,
much more than ever any Principall here had ; and, as I think, more than
any Principall in Scotland hes to this day. 2. That his labours were extra
ordinary, more than any other before him ; while his labours hes been as good
as none at all in any part of his proper duetie, except in toyes and folies,
which concerned us little or nothing. 3. That our rents might weell bear that
his augmentation, while it appears they doe not difcharge our ordinary bur
dens. Our CEconomus for the mailers and burfars table hes not received a
tippens this year, but hes laid out of his own money two thoufand merks, and
is at the point of laying doun his charge, which none will take up ; no man
hes gotten a fixpence of ftipend this year, nor is like to get. This is not
only for want of law, but alfo throw his needlefs waftrie, that hes caft us in
much debt ; who, at his coming had many thoufand pounds to the fore.
Mr. Thurloe is our good friend, but hes been abufed by Mr. Gillefpie to pafs
fuch a unjuft gift ; alfo, he got an order from him, (who, I fuppofe, never
accepted of our Chancellor's oath,) to nominat Mr. Robert M'Quard our
Vice- Chancellor, alone to ferve Mr. Gillefpie in his evill defignes. I
know yow could eafilie have prevented all this, if yow had got my letter
in tyme here inclofed. Only, now I defyre yow marre, if yow can, the
paffing of his gift. I wifti the reft were confirmed, but with a claufe of
excluding any perfonall gifts lince the year 1650, or fome fuch thing Alfo, I
think, Mr. Thurloe would doe weell, as a ftranger to our nation and afiairs,
and, at fuch a diftance, unable to be duelie informed of many things paffes
among us, in a letter to us, to iignifie his unwillingnefs to continue longer
under that title of our Chancellor, which Mr. Gillefpie did put on him, alone
for a trick, to ferve his own defignes. James, [I] craves yow many pardons
for this long libell. Doe in all this as yow think fitt : only by a line, let
me know if thefe be come to your hands.
Be carefull none fee thefe, efpecially William Thomfon, my old very
good and familiar friend, with whom, at the CrofTe of Edinburgh, the laft
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tyme I faw him, I bitterlie difcorded for his putting Sir James Stewart
in the Proveftrie. Now and then I am praying to God for yow, and pur-
pofes to continue.
Your's,
March 10th 1660. R. B.
FOR MR. JAMES SHARP.
JAMES,
THESE are only to let yow know that myfelf, and, I hope many my betters
commends yow, and your employments, now and then heartily to God. If
it pleafe God to work out this wonder, his own onlie work, marvellous in our
eyes, and more in the eyes of the poderitie, to bring home our fweet Prince
in peace, I think, in this cafe, the greatefl pull will be about Epifcopacy. Con
cerning this great difficultie I fugged unto yow this my advyce, to caufe fett
with all poflible fpeed fome ferious and judicious pen, (I think Dr. Reinold's
were the fitted,) in a few meets of paper, to print the tenets, and point out
the writes of the prefent leaders of the Epifcopall party, Dr. Tailor, Mr.
Pierce, Dr. Hamond, Mr. Thorndyk, Dr. Heilin, Biihop Wran, Bifhop Bram
ble, and others. Their humour is exceedingly bitter, and high even, in their
late writes, not only againft the Covenant and all Prefbyterians, but the Re
formers abroad : they are moil exprefie and bitter for all Arminianifme, for the
farre mod of Poperie, as much as Grotius maintains. If fliortly and plainly,
their prefent tenets, befide Books and Bifhops, were put in the text, and the
proofes in the margins, in their own words, (as I did in iny Ladenfium,) I
think it might prove a notable meane, by God's blefling, either totally to
withdraw the heart of the King from them, and the heart of a potent party
they have, I doubt no, in England dill, or at lead to allay and cooll all
honeft Protedants towards their defignes. No bodie can undertake this for
purpofe and in tyme, but fome there. I think, if half-a-dozen were fet about
the reading of the books, and pointing or drawing out the pafiages, Dr.
Reinolds, or Mr. Prin [Prynne], or fundry others, in a fourtnight, might get
it readie for the prefle and the view of the King and Parliament, for the
crufhing of that high, proud, malicious, and now very a6live and danger
ous party, as I fee fpeciallie by Pierce's lateil peeces. Baxter is unhappy ;
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he would be requefted either to be filent, or iimplie regulat in his writ-
ting, by thefe brethren who are wifer than himfelf.
Tell my Lord Lauderdaill that I am the old man towards him, and
readily may dedicat my Chronologick Queftions to him, if he continue honeft,
and better tymes make him no worfe. If yow have leafure, let me know
your receipt of this and my former.
Your's,
Aprile 16th [1660.] R. B.
POSTSCRIPT.
Dr. WALTOUN, albeit bitterlie Epifcopall, yet, for his great work1, I wifh
he were cherimed, though it were with the Proveiftrie of Eaton Colledge :
that afle Lockier2 being caft out, it might be a means either to win or filence
that highly deferving man. Our reftlefs Remonftrators, as I hear, are ftill
on plotts for new divifions ; their firft defigne is, to divide Lauderdaill and
Glencairne, two moft eminent men that now are left to our nation. The
world knows the Remonftrants love neither, hot would break the one by the
other, and fo, once more, us all in them. There is work enough, and reward
alfo, for them both, if they agree. The afhes of our former ruine are yet
fmoaking, we are fcarce begun to peip out from under that rubbifli, whether
the coal of our former remeadilefs divifions, and it alone, lately did bring
us : if fo foon thefe begin again to befturr it, we are worfe than mad. No
man I know fitter than yow to keep thefe two men together, in fpite of the
devill ; fee to it, as God fhall be pleafed to help yow. I hear the great pro
jectors are my Lord Lie3 and Sir John Cheiflie, and that their maine end is
to bring in Colonell Lockhart in employment for Scotland, a man exceeding
ly fincere, who, all this while, hes been very zealous for our King, Kirk, and
Countrie, no wayes felf-feeking, as all the world knows.
1 His edition of the Polyglott Bible : Vide supra, pp. 304, 309, 310.
2 Nicholas Lockyer, an Independent minister, in great favour with Cromwell, by whom
he was promoted, on the death of Francis Rous, to be Provost of Eton, 14th January 1658.
He did not long enjoy this office, as he was deprived at the Restoration, and the place was
conferred on Nicholas Monk.
3 Sir James Lockhart of Lee : (See Brunton and Haig's Senators of the College of Justice,
p. 319. Edinb. 1832, 8vo.)
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FOR HIS REVEREND BROTHER MR. WILLIAM DOUGLASS, PROFESSOR OP
DIVINITY AT ABERDEEN.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
Yow have here inclofed an account of my diligence about that knave : it's
lyke he will flee from us to Ireland ; if he abide here, be aflured of any reafon
of him which yow defire. For famous men of our Univerfity and City, I
can fay but little ; yet thefe following come in my minde for the prefent :
Guil. Elphiftoun, B. of Aberdeine,1 builder of your Old Colledge, borne in
Glafgow, a merchand's fon, but a landed gentleman, near coufm to the Lord
Elphiftoun : — Mr. Peter Blackburne, Bifhop of Aberdeine, whofe hand was
chief to order your Marifhall Colledge,* juft after our orders of Glafgow,
borne and bred in Glafgow, an honeft merchand's fon ; a Regent of our
Colledge, when translated by King James to Aberdeine : — George Buchannan,
borne in Strablaine, feven myles from Glafgow, bred in our grammar-fchool,
much converfing in our Colledge, the chief inftrument to purchafe our rents
from Queen Mary and King James ; he left our library a parcell of good Greek
books, noted with his hand : — Mr. Cameron, borne in our Salt-Mercat, a few
doores from the place of my birth, a Regent of our Colledge, and then Prin-
cipall of it : — Trochrig, borne with us, and our Principall ; fee what I write of
his life before his book3 : — Dr. Strang, borne in Irvine, but long our Principall,
where he write all his books : — Mr. William Struthers, borne in our towne,
minifter of it, very pious and learned ; long chief minifter of Edinburgh ; I
dare fay the mod eloquent and gracious preacher that ever yet lived in Scot
land : — Mr. Dickfon, borne in Glafgow, Regent and Profeflbr in our Col
ledge: — Mr. Blair, borne near our towne, bred in our Colledge, long a Regent in
it: — Mr. Andrew Melville, long our Principall before he went to St. Andrews: —
Mr. Thomas Smeaton died our Principall, one of the learnedeft men of the
' William Elphinstone, Bishop of Aberdeen, and founder of King's College there, in the
year 1494: He was an eminent patron of literature, and died at Edinburgh 25th Oct. 1514.
2 Marischall College, Aberdeen, was founded by George Earl Marischal, 2d April 1593.
3 The posthumous Latin Commentary on the Epistle to the Ephesians, by Boyd of Trochrig,
published in 1652.
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nation, as his book againft Jefuit Hamiltone4 doethfhew: — B[i(hop] Spotfwood,
as the Superintendent his father, and the Prefident his fone, were all bred in
our Colledge : — Blafius Laurentius, Mr. R. Laurie's5 grandfather, born with us,
and long a Regent in our houfe, one of the braved philofophs and humanifts
in his tyme : — Marcus Alexander Bodius, that excellent poet, as I knew it of
his brother and nephewes, was, I fuppofe, borne near to us, and bred with us ;
Joannes Rofa, Mr. Jo. Rofle, borne and bred with us, a brave poet, (as Rober-
tus Magnus,6 borne here, a Regent here, and our Profeffor of Phyfick ;) their
verfe yow may fee in Deliciis Poetarum Scotorum : — Guil. Hegatus, Princi-
pall of the Colledge of Bordeaux, a good philofopher and poet, borne with
us :--Tho. Jakeus, long Mailer of our grammar-fchool, ane able poet, as his
Onomafticon7 fhews ; alfo Guil. Wallace, our late fchoolmafter, a fine poet : —
Mr. Spang, minifter at Campheir, famous abroad, borne and bred with us.
I mall hold here for the time, only add Mr. Durhame, laureat with us, and
ever after, till his death, with us. Doubtlefs there are many moe that I
know no, or do not for the tyme remember.
As for your Sermon,8 1 fend yow no cenfure upon it ; for I was fo much
offended with your former book,9 before which the glorious name of your
Principall, Mr. Row, did fo magnificently ftand, and your very idle and falfe
gloriation of whole two hundreth year and above antiquitie before St. An-
drewes and us, that I have not read any of your writs in patience fince, nor
I think ever will, till, for thefe two lourd efcapes, yow give great fatiffadion.
The Lord be with yow. Our Remonftrators remaine what they were, men
for their owne faction alone.
Your's to ferve yow,
Glafgow, May 23d 1660. R. B.
4 Smeton's work, dedicated to James the Sixth, is entitled " Ad virulentum Archibald!
Hamilton!! apostatae Dialogum," &c. Edinburgi, 15J9, 4to.
5 Mr. Robert Laurie, who was afterwards Dean of Edinburgh, and Bishop of Brechin.
6 Dr. Robert Mayne : See his funeral inscription in M'Ure's Hist, of Glasgow, p. 258.
7 The " Onomasticon Poeticum, etc." by Thomas Jack, was printed at Edinburgh 1592, 4to.
8 " The Stable Trueths of the Kirk require a sutable behaviour : Holden forth by way of
Sermon, &c. before the Provinciall Synod of Aberdeen, April 18, 1659. Aberdene, printed
by J. B. in March, Ann. 1660." 4to.
9 " Academiarum Vindiciae, in quibus Novantinm praejudicia contra Academias etiam Re-
formatas averruncantur, earundemque Institutio recta proponitur." Aberdoniae, 1659, 4to,
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FOR HIS REVEREND BROTHER, MR. DAVID DICKSON.
REVEREND BROTHER,
I RECEIVED your's with Mr. Spang's packet ; yow fee what he writes to
me : fend it back to me with thefe Thefes. What was written the 1ft Feb
ruary, was too long in coming to yow and me. The end of May, I think,
our Colledges muft fend their feverall anfwers. Advife me if I fhall commu-
nicat this to Mr. P. G. According to my proteftations, I never acknow
ledged him Principall, nor any lawfull member of our focietie ; yet, if it be
not communicat, he will raife tragedies upon it, as if I did take upon me to
depofe hun before the time : advife me what to doe. Since he came from
Edinburgh lad, I find our factions in a new flame of fpirit ; it's like fome
thing hes been refolved among them there-eaft, they are all mifcontent with
fome thing in this change. I have heard fome of them preach thefe three
lafl Sundays, bot not a word tending to any thanks, or any joy, for the King's
returne ; albeit they have fome prayers for him. Their iludie is to fill the
people with fears of Bifhops, Books, deftroying of the Covenant, fetting up
of profanitie ; and heirupon prefles privie meetings, as in a tyme moft ne-
ceflar. The fermon this day was fpent on that purpofe. Thefe fett meet
ings, to my fenfe, are exceeding dangerous, caveat them as they will. My
heart is very grieved, that when myfelf and many others were content to
have pa{Ted all their bygone mifdemeanours, not few nor fmall, and made by-
ganes byganes ; yet I can fee no hope of any fair play in tyme to come, but
a refolution, to keep up a fchifme and a partie of the godly, as they will
have them called, for themfelves, that (hall obey no Church Judicatorie
farder than they pleafe : This fpirit is now aloft more than ever, ftirred up
lately in their Edinburgh meeting, from Wariftoun, Mr. Guthrie, Mr. Gil-
lefpie, and Mr. Rutherfurd's commiffion, by Mr. M'Quard : advert to it, left
it goe to a new mifchief. Argyle and Mr. Gillefpie are this day at the
communion at Pafley, with a world at then* back : what to do with them I
know no ; neither fair or other means are like to do with them, if God himfelf
put not the evill fpirit of caufelefs divifion from among us, both in Kirk and
State, which now againe is burning. I think we fhall yet be a matter
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of fcandall to the world for our imminent farder ruptures. God help yow
who there are at the helme. My fervice to Margaret and Alexander.
I reft, Your's,
May 27th [1660.] R. B.
Yow let us know nothing, neither what Mr. J. Sharp nor what yow there
are doeing. We are wearied with complaints of this and will fay no more
of it.
FOR MY LORD LAUDERDAILL.
MY LORD,
I WOULD have been loath to have broken of my long filence towards
your Lordfhip at this tyme of your fo many and great affaires, if exceeding
grief of minde had not for the prefent put me to it. I was one of thofe
who, in my heart, and all needfull expreffions, adhered to the King in all his
diftreffes : He had my continuall prayers to God for his reflitution, any
way God pleafed, even the mod hard : diverfe know my frequent expref
fions of readinefs to further his returne to his throne, by laying downe mine
head on the block for it, and the utter ruin of all my worldly fortoun. Alfo
yow, and your neighbour Crawfurd, were oft in my prayers. When the
Lord lately, at a very cheap rate, had brought all my prayers, and much
more than I could have thought upon, to pafs, both for the matter and man
ner, there were few that had a more hearty joy for it than I, and was more
offended (even in my pulpit) with thofe who were not fo joyfull as I thought
became them. While I am going on in my daily renewed joy, behold
your unhappy Diurnals and letters from London hes wounded me to the
heart. Is the Service-Book read in the King's Chappell ? Hes the Bifhop
of Elie (I fear Dr. Wran), the worfl Bifhop of our age after Dr. Laud, preach
ed there ? Hes the Houfe of Lords paft an order for the Service-Book ? Oh !
where are we foe foon ? The granting to us in Scotland the confirmation
of what we have, brings us juft back to J[ames] Graham's tymes. Is our
Covenant with England turned to Harie Martin's Almanack ? Is the folemne
oath of the Lords and Commons, affembled in Parliament, fubfcrybed fo oft
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by their hands to eradicat Bifhops, turned all to wind ? Why did the Par
liament, a few months fince, appoint the Covenant to be hung up in every
Church of England, and every year to be publickly read ? Is Cromwell, the
great enemie of our Covenant, fo foon arifen out of his grave ? Can our
gracious Prince ever forget hisfolemne Oath and Subfcription ? He is a bet
ter man than to do it, if thefe about him be not very unfaithfull fervants.
For myfelf, fuch are my rooted refpecls, both to his perfon and place, that do
what he will, and tollerat what he will, I purpofe while I live to be his mofl
loving and loyall fubject. But, believe me, if I were befide him I would tell
him fadly, and with tears, oaths to the Almightie are not to be broken,
and lead of all by him for whom the Lord has wrought at this very tyme a
more marvelous mercy than he has done for any or all the princes in Europe
thefe hundred years. Bifhops were the very fountain of all our mifchiefs :
Will they ever change their nature ? Will God ever blefle that plant which
himfelf never planted ? It's a fcorne to tell us of moderat Epifcopacy, a
moderat Papacy ! the world knows that Bifhops and Popes could never keep
caveats : The Epifcopall faclion there were never more immoderat than this
day. You know how fair Pierce, Hamond, Heylen, Taylor, have in their late
writs juflified all the challenges in my Ladenfium, and gone beyond them to
all the Tridentine poperie of Grotius. T. G., Thomas Gallovidianus1, for his
printing Dr. Forbes, B[i(hop] of Edinburgh's wicked diclats, is now on his
way to London, fent for by the Englifh Bifhops, who fcoffe at our Church's ex
communication. Yow were the man who procured and brought downe to us
the ordinance for abolition of Epifcopacie. I doubt not but yow and Mr.
Sharp has done your endeavour, but could I ever have dreamed that Bifhops
and Books, mould have been fo foon reflored, with fo great eafe and
filence of the Prefbyterian Covenanters in the two Houfes, the Citie and
AfTemblie of London, of Lancafhyre, and other fliyres ? Be aflured, whatever
furprife be for the time, this fo hideous a breach to God and man can no faill
to produce the wrath of God in the end. Shall all our blood and labour for
that Covenant be fo eafilie buried ? Though all flefh, Englifh and Scots,
for their own defigns were filent at fo needfull a tyme, I doubt not bot the
Lord himfelf will hear our cryes againfl that beaft, which has gotten fo deadlie
wounds as all the kings and parliaments of the earth will never be able to
1 Thomas Sydeserf, Bishop of Galloway, ride supra, note p. 390.
1660. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 407
cure. I, and many more, who have, and will ever rejoyce for the Reftitu-
tion of our King, refolve to complaine to God and man, while we live, for
the returae of Books and Bifhops.
Thus farr I have poured out my heart to yow at this tyme, who, I believe,
will be loath for any caufe, to apoflatife from your well-tryed conftancie.
This is from your L[ordfhip's] old friend and fervant,
R. B.
June 16th 1660.
[FoR THE EARL OF LAUDERDAILL.]
MY LORD,
I RECEAVED on the 30th of June, what long before yow fent to me
by Mr. Jo. Wilkie, two copies of the French letters, vindicating the King's
conftancie in his religion. The one, as yow directed, I fent immediatelie to
our noble friend L. M. Kennedys ; for this favour I thank your Lordihip. I
write the 18th [16th] of June, by Mr. Jo. Wilkie's packet, a very fad regrate,
which I hope your Lordlhip hath receaved. This is on a particular. Miftrifs
Gillefpie has gone to her friends at London to folicite her hufband's pardon
and confirmation in his place of Principall in our Univerfitie. I would no be
ftrait-laced in pardon almoft to any penitent man ; but truelie if his Majeftie
mould be that farr abufed by any there, as to confirm him in that place
whereto he had never any call, but the Englifti intrufion, nor any parts to
difcharge it as all the nation knows, I would be forced to fubfcribe what
his partie preaches in my eares, though not in their fenfe, that we are fallen
out of the thornes into the briers. The Generall Aflembly is that man's
judge ; the King knows him not, nor his ways : Whoever will plead for him,
may as well plead for Nye, Goodwin, Peters, or for Owen to keep him in
Chrift Colledge of Oxford, and Lockier in Eaton. My Lord, the word goes
that his chief confidence is in your Lordfhip for the good offices he did to yow
with Lambert in your prifon. But by all the intereft 1 have in yow, I con-
- Lady Margaret Kennedy, eldest daughter of John Earl of Cassillis : At a later period,
(in 1670 or 1671,) she became the wife of Dr. Gilbert Burnet, then Professor of Divinity at
Glasgow, and afterwards Bishop of Salisbury.
408 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1660.
jure yow not to medle with him. It would draw infamie upon yow, and the
offence of our whole Church, and all who truelie loves the King and hates
the Remonftrance. Ye would wrong our Univerfitie, oppreft by his evill
talent, and myfelf in particular, who deferves no injurie at your Lordftiip's
hands. Yow are too wife to be enchanted by .that firen's fongs : for her
venturous boldnefs (he ought to be fent home, if not with ane affront, yet
with a fevere frowne.
This is from your Lordfhip's old friend and fervant,
R. B.
Glafgow, July 2d 1660.
FOR MR. HUTCHESONE.
GEORGE,
I GOT your lad, and all my papers back on Saturday. I am oblidged to
yow, and yow only, for a ferious care to revife them. Mod of your cor
rections, both literall and reall, are right, whereof I will make ufe. Your
difference from me in fome points I take very weell, and fhall confider of it.
The Scripturall hiatus in the feventy weeks is my great grief, and I would
count him a happie man who could help it. The third edition of my Laden-
fium, at London, had additions : I (hall endeavour to fend yow one of them.
In your notion here of pointing out the Epifcopall faction I agree with yow :
Yow have here a double what I write about it to Mr. Sharp, April 16th,
whereof he gave me no account, nor of any thing I write to him, this twelve
moneth : Would God my opinion had been followed in tyme. I am not
pleafed with what is fo oft inculcat to yow from London, that the more we
medle with the Kirk of England, it will fare the worfe both with us and
them. What is the Scotts of this, but that we lhall (itt dumb and never
open our mouth, neither to the King nor Parliament, nor our brethren the
minifters of England, to requeft them to adhere to their Covenant and Peti
tion againft Books and Bifliops ? I fear we cannot anfwer for our miferable
(lacknefs herein alreadie. It is more than time that all the gracious minif
ters in the citie and countrie mould doe their bed to procure fo many and fo
ftrong petitions as poflible, to the King and Parliament, to hold out Bifhops
and Books. We who had by our Covenant but too great intereft, and knew
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their temper to be but dead and cold till quickened and warmed, Ihould not
have fo long neglected them. I was fore afflicted when it was told me, by
my neighbour, that Lauderdaill went to the chapell to hear Bifhops preach,
and fay Amen to all the fervice, as much as any about Court, and defended
his practice by confcience. I hope this muft be falfe ; as alfo what I heard, of
four and twenty hunder of gracious minifters violently put from their places
by the old Service-book men. If it be fo, we are in a hard taking. I pray
yow let me know what yow hear of thefe things. They are, if true, deeds
openly done, which eafily yow will get tryed by daily comers from London.
We have loft a fair game by meer mifguiding. A pitie but Hyde and fome
others had been removed from Court long before this. That Middletone,
a fojour, is to be Commiffioner of our Parliament and Affemblie, I fear it
import fome unpleafant fervice to be in hand. The Remonftrance, the Act
of the Weft Church, the Proteftation, I abhorre, as very bafe and intolerable
pranks ; but God forbid that any would be put to fuffer for them, who will
play fair in time to come. I doe inclyne, as yow advyfe, to deall with Ha-
mond and Jefuit Petavius, and King Charles's Reafons for Epifcopacie ; but
I cannot determine when, till I have feen Hamond, (I expect him fhortly
from London,) and I have gotten my Chronologic to the preffe : in this ad
vyfe me. It is not framed fo that any part of it can goe alone. If Thomas
Catherwood, on your recommendation, or your printer at London, would
undertake it, I Ihould require nothing but fome bound copies, to be diftri-
bute to friends. Affift me in this, elfe I muft let it lye ftill, I know no
how long. Let me hear from yow fo foon as yow can. Adieu.
Yours,
Auguft 13th 1660. R. B,
[FoR MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.]
REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,
v^
THE Lord having returned me to this place in fafetie and health, I have
taken the opportunitie of this gentleman, Sir Adam Blair, to give yow an ac
count thereof. I have need begin with a large apologie for my filence to
yow all the tyme I was at London, even after twice provocation from yow,
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but at prefent neither tyme nor expediencie will allow me to write that which
may acquitt me from that charge of neglect yow may commence againft me,
and therefore (hall entreat your patience, and exercife of your charitie to
wards me, till I have the opportunitie of fatiffying yow. The King at my
firft addrefle in Breda, was pleafed to aflt me very kindly about yow ; and at
my taking leave at Whithall, commanded me to remember him to yow by
name, with others ; and I can affure yow, he hath a particular kindnefs for
yow, and will give a demonflration of it. His Majeftie hath been pleafed to
fend by me a gracious Letterto the Preflbytrie of Edinburgh to be communicated
to all the Prefbytries in Scotland, which I am confident will fatiffie all who
are fatilfiable ; it will be printed, and within a day or two, a copie tranfmitted
to yow.3 However the affaires of the Church of England may be difpofed,
which I fee are tending to Epifcopacie there, the blame whereof ought not to
be laid upon the King ; yet we need fear no violation of our fetlement here,
if the Lord give us to prize our own mercie, and know our dutie. I have
brought a letter from fome citie minifters, bearing an account of their late
procedure to an accommodation, for moderated Epifcopacie, and the Church
contefts there are fwallowed up by thefe who are for Prelacie in the •former
way, and thefe who are for a regulated Epifcopacie. The King by his de
claration, which will be fpeedilie publifhed, will endeavour a compofeing of
thefe differences untill a Synod be called. Your noble friend who hath fent
yow the inclofed, (however he is reprefented by fome with yow,) is a fixed
friend to the intereft of the Church of Scotland, and to that caufe we have
owned : we have caufe to bleffe God that he is putt into fuch a (lation by his
Majeftie, wherein he is capacitated to doe good offices to our Church, and
honeft men in it, for which I am perfuaded he will lay himfelf forth to the
utmoft4. I hear of (lories vented by fome with yow to the prejudice of that
Noble perfon : they are calumnies, and I hope will not have belief with yow,
and other honeft men. I think it were not amiffe yow did make a ftep hither
3 The King's letter to the Presbytery of Edinburgh, dated the 10th August, and received
3d September, with the answers from the Presbytery, to Charles the Second, and to the Earl of
Lauderdale, on the 20th September, are contained in Baillie's MS. ; but they may be found
in Wodrow's History, and in other works.
* It appears unquestionable that Lord Lauderdale, up till this period at least, was averse to
any change of the Presbyterian form of worship in Scotland. How far Sharp himself was
sincere in his professions, might best appear were his own correspondence fully published.
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to Edinburgh, how foon yow could ; there are matters fitt for yow to know,
and give advyce, which cannot in this way be communicated. The expecta
tion I have of your coming doth put a flop to my further writting. I com
mend yow to the Lord's grace.
Your's to ferve yow,
Edinburgh, September 5th 1660. JA. SHARP.
I mall entreat yow to prefent my fervice to Proveift John Bell. I beg
his pardon for my incivilitie in fending no return to what he wrote to me at
London. I trufl the reafon upon which I fell into that omiflion will plead for
my excufe when communicated to him, which I purpofe to doe at meeting.
[FoR MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.]
SIR,
YOUR letter of complaints was long of coming, or rather never came, (for
I have only got a copie of it,) and I am not unfatiffied with it, for I defire not
to know the complaints of my friends, when I cannot help them. Your let
ters of fears and jealoulies of me came too foon ; for, let me tell yow, charity
and old acquaintance ought to have made yow not to have been fo credulous
as to have hearkened fo much to clatters. My crime, I thought, mould have
been feveritie, and not too much acting for Remonftrants. But we will, I
hope, agree when we meet. All the account I can now give yow is, that in-
ftead of pleading for Mr. Gillefpie, I have obtained a grant for another to be
Principall of Glafgow, and waits but for a formall prefentation for his Majef-
tie's hand ; he was prefented by the Ufurper, and therefore the King makes
no bones of the difpofeing of that place, and, I aflure yow, I did not plead
for his continuance. This yow may believe better than thefe who told yow
I was pleading for Remonftrators ; this honed bearer, Mr. Sharp, will tell
yow all that yow would know from this place. I mall only add, that what
ever ye hear, I am where I was, and by confequence,
Your aife6lionat friend to ferve yow,
LAUDERDAILL.
Whitehall, the 22d of Auguft 1660.
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[FoR THE EARL OF LAUDERDAILL.]
MY LORD,
I RECEAVED what yow wrote to me with Mr. Sharp. His Majeftie's re
membrance of me, I thank yow for it, for it was your Lordmip's information
that, firft and laft, made him take any notice of me. I can fay (I think
truely) that yow did not deceave, neither his Majeftie nor yourfelf, in aflure-
ing him of my hearty affection, both to his place and perfon, fince my firft
acquaintance, and of my readinefs, with all the little pith I had, to doe him
willing and fincere fervice ; nor did yow deceave yourfelf in believing my
true refpedl towards yow now of a long tyme, above any in our land of your
qualitie. As for my late grievances, I am content to fufpend their debate
till we meet. For the prefentation yow write of, I lhall advyfe it, when it
comes to my hand, with the brethren of Edinburgh. I was never defireous
of any place but one, the regencie of the Bajouns. The Principall's charge of
our Colledge twelve years agoe, I have been oft intreated to accept by all
who had intereft to call to it, but ever I did peremptorilie refufe it, Dr.
Strang, to whom it did truely belong, being then alive. Age and weaknefs
make me now more unfitt for it than I was then. Befide that, Mr. Gillefpie,
by his good adminiftration, has put that place for the time in a very miferable
condition, as at our firft Vifitation will be apparent. Befide other grievous
burdens, he has left upon us, by his vain-glorious buildings, the debt of above
ten thoufand merks, and ten thoufand pound will not perfite, what fore
againfl my heart he has laid a necefiitie on us to perfite, or be accounted
poor fecklefs fnifties, who has no witt nor ac~lion to end what he has fo
magnificentlie begun and advanced. It is true, viis et modis, he got to
fpend on it above five and forty thoufand pound, whereof from the Englifh he
had above twenty thoufand merks, and was confident of other twenty, if Lam
bert had flood to this day. But eternal praife to the Lord for that blefled
change that God himfelf had wrought, become of us and our building
what God pleafes. The Chancellor affures me, that the King and State will
help us to perfite that work, (which indeed is the prettied building in all our
land,) and will not be outftripped by Cromwell in kindnefs to our Univerfitie ;
1660. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 413
but of the time and wayes we muft advyfe with your Lordfhip at meeting.
Only there is one favour for the time we muft intreat your Lordfhip for : His
Majeflie's Royall Father, when in Scotland 1633, in the firft page of our
Contribution book for our building and library, fubfcrived to Dr. Strang, two
hunder pound. This our good Thefaurer Traquair fliifted ever to pay till
our troubles began. The world now knows his Majeflie's care to fee his
Royall Father's debt payed, fo far as he can, with increafe. The Chan
cellor and others affure me of their endeavours, notwithstanding all their
povertie to get that payed to us, if we can have the King's order for it to the
Thefaurer. I hope your Loidfhip, who getts his Majeftie's hand to fo many
things will get it alfo to this little particular,5 were it but for your kindnefs to
me. And what, if in the precept his Majefty would, of his royall bounty,
double it, as oft he hes done to others who can doe him lefle fervice ? Surely
if we get it, or if we get it not, I fhall, God willing, be carefull to fett on the
frontifpiece of our work, his Majeftie's name and armes, (which the Engliih
defaced,) in a more ftately forme than yet they are in Scotland. And for
your Lordmip's procuration we will advyfe of fome bud that may be mod fit
ting your temper. So foon as yow may, let me know what to expect, or
rather let me receive from Mr. Sharp, who will fend it fafely to me, his Ma
jeftie's warrand to the Thefaurer for the reall and ready payment, of which his
Majeftie and your Lordfhip fhall think fitt. I purpofe never to feek, nor to
have any thing for myfelf ; for, blefled be God ! I have enough for myfelf,
and all my fix children ; but I would fain fee our College out of that debt
[in] which the vanitie and prodigalitie of that man has almoft drowned us.
The Lord bleffe and help your Lordfhip in that high and ticklifh ftation
wherein now yow ftand.
Your Lordfhip's, after the old fafhion,
Oaober 12th 1660. R. B,
5 It is singular that Baillie, in this urgent appeal should have overlooked or concealed the
fact of this subscription having actually been paid by Cromwell. This appears from the entry
in the Subscription-book to which he refers, viz. : — " CHARLES R. — It is our gracious pleasure
to grant, for the advancement of the Librarie and fabrick of the Colledge of Glasgow, the sum
of Two Hundred Pounds Sterling." Above this is written, " His Majestie's Contribution was
gratiouslie granted at Seton, the 14 of Julie 1633 ;" and beneath it, in a different hand, " This
soume was payed by the Lord Protector, An. 1654." Baillie indeed talks of Cromwell's " kind
ness," which he must have esteemed as in no way cancelling the original obligation.
414 LETTERS AND JOURNALS 1660.
[FoR MR. GEORGE HUTCHESON, EDINBURGH.]
GEORGE,
SINCE I faw yow, reflecting on what I heard and faw there, and fomewhat
hes come to me fince, I am fallen in jealoufies and feares, I hope caufelefs and
vaine, yet for the tyme they vex me, and I communicate them to yow alone.
For the time yow may doe fome good, as I conceave, but I know no how long.
If the wrack of the Remonftrators, with our help, be but a ftate defigne to
make us inftrumentall to weaken the Kirk, to oppofe their farder defignes we
are egregioufly abufed. I fear this Parliament, if they will abolifti not only
the Act of Patronages, but that whole Parliament, yea will medle with our
Solemne League and Covenant, with our connivence and filence, it will be
Mr. W. Rufiel's prayers, " Lord ! thou knowes, we are falfe knaves together."
I think the matter of Englim Epifcopacie, and Hyde's Chancellorfhip has been
guided with agreat deal either of imprudence or worfe. I think my Lord Caflillis
will inform yow of more than I know. God knows all, and time will difcover
a part. Exhortations to yow are needlefs ; yet yow can no be the worfe of
a little advyfe ; yow have more power than any man with Mr. Dickfon and
Mr. Dowglafs : yow three hold fail together. When Mr. Wood and Mr.
Sharp comes over, advyfe of our beft way to keep the King and Parliament
from medleing with our Covenant, elfe be afiured all honeft men will exoner
their hearts to teftifie againfl mainfworn villanie, and to cry to God againft it.
We needed not to have been brought to this point, if thefe at London had
not been befooled and bewitched. However, look about yow, and let us
not be cheated nor forced from our dear Covenant, without a witnefs to pur-
pofe. That buflinefs of Robertfon, in Kirkaldy, which flowed from your
Turner and Wood,6 try the bottome of it, and be not complemented out
of that fearch. Make much of our correfpondent for he is worthie. Thefe
to you alone.
Yours, R. B.
Glafgow, November 5th [1660.]
6 This refers to a letter intended to have been sent to the King on his Restoration, signed
by Smith, Wood, Thomson, Turner, Hume, and Robertson. Wodrow, (MSS. Fol. Vol. xxviii,
No. 26,) describes it as being " in an odd style for Presbyterian Ministers."
1660. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 415
Let me know if yow have gotten this. I incline to write to Mr. Afhe
and Mr. Clerk, to doe their beft for a ftrong petition from the Prefbyterian
minifters and Citie againfl Epifcopacie and Liturgie : who hes marred it till
now, they have been fools or knaves. Yow there fhould have done it, but
ere it be not done I will try it, if yow alone approve. I am fore grieved:
fimple men are impatient of cheating.
FOR MR. DICKSON.
REVEREND AND LOVING BROTHER,
Yow have here what, on your defire, I promifed to fend ; difpofe on it as
yow, Mr. Douglafs, and Mr. Hutchefon (hall find expedient. If yow find
meet to fend it abroad, let it be namelefs, and well corrected at the prefle by
Mr. Archbald Cameron.7 But by no means let it come out before the Par
liament have ended with all they purpofe towards the Protefters ; for I would
be forie that any write of mine fhould bring trouble to any man : I would
rather choice to burne it.8 But yow three are wife enough. 1 fear for the ill
of this Parliament. God help us. My fervice to Margaret and Alexander.
Yours,
December 3d [1660.] R. BAILLIE.
[FoR MR. ROBERT BAILLIE.]
REVEREND SIR, Edinburgh, 13th December 1660.
YOUR former letter came to my hand at Craill, feventeen dayes after the
date of it ; and I put off the fending yow a returne, till my coming to Edin
burgh, where I apprehended yow might be at the meeting of Parliament : this
is the caufe of the delay of the account, which now I mail give yow concern
ing the matter of that letter. I fent your letter to Lauderdaill, which came
7 A brother of the celebrated divine John Cameron : vide vol. i. p. 482.
8 This " write " against the Protesters, (to which Baillie again alludes in his subsequent
letters,) was probably never published, in consequence of the unexpected change that soon
afterwards took place in regard to the Church.
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to his hands the feventh day after 1 fent it to Edinburgh. My Brother was
with his Lordfhip in the time when he receaved [it] : the King's haftening to
meet his Mother the Queene, did divert my Lord from fending to yow an
anfwer, which he promifed to my brother, at his parting from him, to fend by
the poaft. Since which tyme I have receaved no letter, fave one the other
day by my Lord Crawfurd ; and all my Lord Lauderdaill writes in his letter
of 2d December to me touching that matter is, that "The King's commands
keep me here, fo that I fhall not fee yow till the Spring. In the mean tyme,
T long for your advyce as to what I wrote of Glafgow, with a draught of the
prefentation." Thefe are the words. In that letter 1 fent to his Lordfhip
with your's, I was pofitive in my defire that the prefentation might be fent
downe for yourfelf ; and fure my Lord, through multiplicitie of bufinefs, hes
forgott what then I wrote ; but I (hall this night, by my letter to his Lord-
fhip, renew my defire ; and I think it will be fitt that a draught of a prefen
tation, conform to Dr. Strang's, be fent up, if that can be had with yow, or
any other which will be valide. Upon fending it hither to my Brother, (if
I \>e not in towne,) I will engage for his fecrecie and fidelitie in tranfmitting
it to my Lord Lauderdaill, who, I am confident, will take care of it. Cour
tiers, they are fo taken up with other bufinefs, that they have neither leafure
nor mind for framing draughts, and the readied way will be to fend a
draught to them. I doe not think but he hes either alreadie written to your
felf, or will writ to yow by his brother Charles Maitland of Halton, who is
now coming down.
Mr. Young did his bufinefs, before my coming to towne, with the Cem-
mittee of States, fo that I had no opportunitie to ferve him, which I
would have done upon your accompt. He can acquaint yow with proceed
ings here. I (hall only tell yow this, that I am confident at this Parlia
ment there will be no medling with the matters of our Church. I be
lieve reports and apprehenfions with yow, may lead into fears of the con-
trare; but I fee no caufe for them. I wifh from my heart the peace yow ftand
ingaged to complete were fent hither. I (hall be in this towne again within
a fortnight. Let me know wherein I can ferve yow, who am in finceritie,
Sir, Your's,
JA. SHARP.
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[FOR MR. JAMES SHARP.]
JAMES,
YOURS of the 13th I receaved the 15th ; whereby I fee your great kind-
nefs to me continues, for the which I remaine oblidged. That pamphlet (as
I write to yow before, which yet I fee is no come to your hands), I made
ready for the prefle, and fent a good while agoe to Mr. Dickfon, according
to my promife, and had done fooner, had no Mr. Andrew Kerr made me
write once, twice, thrice, for fome papers I thought fitt to add. Yow will
fee the frame 1 have put it in, and my additions, and doe with all what yow
and the brethren in Edinburgh think fitt. I think indeed it will help to dif-
credit that faction for ever, and, in reafon, make them filent, whatever courfe
either Church or State take with any of them ; but far be it from me to creat
any trouble to any flelh by any of my writs ; therefore I write to Mr. Dick
fon that it mould not goe to the preffe till the Parliament (and I wi£b the
Church alfo) had ended all they have to fay to any of them. However, I
have performed what I have ingadged to yow.
Lauderdaill mould no play the courtier with me : fince he hes forgot,
(as I believe it weell,) both what yow and I write to him, I fend yow
herewith the double of mine, that if yow think fitt, he may look on
it with one of yours to fecond it. Mr. Gillefpie indeed hes left us in
luch a condition, that (as I hear he boafls, on too good grounds, few
mall defire it in hafte,) I will be loath to medle with it, if his Majeftie,
by Lauderdaill's means, will not help us out of our ftraits. My firft mo
tion for a prsecept to the Thefaurer I thought would have had no difficul-
tie. For a praefentation yow have here Dr. Strang's lad7 : he had a larger
7 The following is a copy of the Warrant for Dr. Strang's presentation to the Principality
of the College of Glasgow, as inserted in this place in Baillie's Manuscript : —
CHARLES R. — RIGHT Reverend Father in God, right trusty and welbeloved counsellor, we
greet yow weell. Whereas we are crediblie informed that since the departure of Mr. John
Cameron out of that our Kingdom, the College of Glasgow hath been without a Principal!,
and being likewise informed of the sufficiencie and learning of MR. JOHN STRANG, Doctor
in Divinitie, and of his fitness to discharge that place, we have made speciall choise of him,
VOL. III. 3 G
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be impartial! : for Noblemen, the Chancellor and yow would advyfe of fome
who might keep with us, fuch as Montgomerie, Fleeming, not Cochrane at
this time, nor Montrofe : [for] Gentlemen, Commiflioners for the Lennox,
Lufle, Kilmahew, for Baranthrow, young Houfton, Craigends, alfo Kilfyth,
Heiflet, Cunninghamhead, Bedlay, Commiflar Fleeming : for Burroughs, the
Proved, and Bailzies, Dean of Gild, and Deacon Conveener of Glafgow, (at
lead two of them, Walkingfhaw and Baillie Barnes,) the Proved of Aire,
Irvin, Dumbartane : for Miniders, Mr. James Ferguflbn, Mr. Alexander
Niftiet, Mr. P. Colvill, Mr. Gabriel Cunninghame elder, Mr. R. Wallace,
Mr. Hew Eccles, Mr. R. Birnie, Mr. James Hamilton of Camnathen : Nine
a quorum, four miniders and five others. This, if yow pleafe, yow can manage
well, or fomething like this ; and becaufe there may be fome Sederunts at
Edinburgh, the Thefaurer and Caffills might be put in, Mr. R. Douglafs, Mr.
Dickfon, Mr. Hutchefon, yow, and Mr. Wood, Mr. Smith, etc.
• James, I pray yow let me know if this and my former have come to your
hand, and what I may expect from yow ; for it is on yow only, under God,
that I lay thefe affaires. The Lord aflift yow ; the felfinefs and ill defigns of
my neighbours diverts me from the public!; and better thoughts. I expect
yow will eafe my prefent difcontent.
Your's to ferve yow,
January Id 1661. R. BAILLIE.
FOR THE RYGHT REVEREND MR. ROBERT BAYLY, PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY
IN GLASGOW.'
REVEREND SIR,
I RECEAVED two of your letters laitly, the one whyl I was at home, two
dayes befor I was fent for to attend the Commiflioner ; the other by the
bearar, who feenis to be a difcreet perfon, and can give yow fuch ane account
of matters relating to your letters, as will make it unneceflary for me to fend
yow a large returne. 1 would not have imagined that fuch an abufe and
grofs injurie could have been defigned againlt yow. 1 (hall doe my bed,
by the Lord's help, to give them check-meat. Any court I may be fuppofed
1 From the original, addressed u above, (Wodrow MSS. Folio Vol. xliz. No. 6.)
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 421
to have, (upon the continuance of which I doe not build,) (hall be with all
readines and good will, layed out to doe Mr. Baily fervice. My Lord Com-
miffioner is a wery judicious and moderat perfon, and, by his carriage in the
publick councills, hath gained wery great efteem : I have layed the way for
engaging him to be your freind. Yow will not, I hope, doubt of my Lord
Chancellor,3 nor the Thefaurer :* my Lord Lawderdaill will not play the
courtier with yow. I have now in readines the draught of a prefentation for
yow, which I will without faile fend up by to-morroue's poaft ; and I doubt
not of a fpeedie and good account therof, though I wifh ther be nothing
fpoken of it to any befor it come doun. I am fure, befor my coming from
London, yow had the King's word for it, which I truft he will not alter. It
is neceflarie yow come, within eight or ten dayes, to this place, to pay your
refpe6ls from your Univerfitie to his Majeftie's Commiffionar ; then we mail
have opportunity to commune about your vifitation. The late Act of your
Synod, to my apprehenfion, and of the brethren heer, was unfeafonable, and
will doe more harm then good ; it fcapes not the conftru6lion of imprudencie
and unhandfomenes putt upon it, at the left. I have not yet feen your
peece yow fent to Mr. Dickfon. I was preffed to preach the laft Lord's day5
to the Parliament, of which I hear variety of reports are fpread, which will
be increafed by the fooliflmes of the diurnall maker ; but I know yow will
allow me charity till yow fpeak with me. Yow fee how I fcrible ; I make
no doubt of your coming hither, and therfor mail adde no more, but com
mending yow to the grace of Chrift, I am,
Your's,
JA. SHARP.
[FoR MR. ROBERT BAILLIE."]
REVEREND AND WORTHIE FREIND,
To convince yow once more that yow was too credulous in beleeving that
1 was dealing for Mr. Gilefpie, receave the inclofed paper, which indeed
• John Earl of Middleton. 3 William Earl of Glencairne.
4 John Earl of Craufurd and Lindsay.
5 Ou the 6th January 1661, which serves to fix the date of this letter.
6 From the original, (Wodrow MSS. Folio Vol. xlix. No. 7-) : the address is not preserved.
420 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1661.
be impart in 11 : for Noblemen, the Chancellor and yow would advyfe of fome
who might keep with us, fuch as Montgomerie, Fleeming, not Cochrane at
this time, nor Montrofe : [for] Gentlemen, Commiflioners for the Lennox,
Lufle, Kilmahew, for Baranthrow, young Houfton, Craigends, alfo Kilfyth,
Heiflet, Cunninghamhead, Bedlay, CommifTar Fleeming : for Burroughs, the
Proved, and Bailzies, Dean of Gild, and Deacon Conveener of Glafgow, (at
lead two of them, Walkingfhaw and Baillie Barnes,) the Proved of Aire,
Irvin, Dumbartane : for Miniders, Mr. James Ferguflbn, Mr. Alexander
Nid>et, Mr. P. Colvill, Mr. Gabriel Cunninghame elder, Mr. R. Wallace,
Mr. Hew Eccles, Mr. R. Birnie, Mr. James Hamilton of Camnathen : Nine
a quorum, four miniders and five others. This, if yow pleafe, yow can manage
well, or fomething like this ; and becaufe there may be fome Sederunts at
Edinburgh, the Thefaurer and Cafiills might be put in, Mr. R. Douglafs, Mr.
Dickfon, Mr. Hutchefon, yow, and Mr. Wood, Mr. Smith, etc.
James, I pray yow let me know if this and my former have come to your
hand, and what I may expect from yow ; for it is on yow only, under God,
that I lay thefe affaires. The Lord aflift yow ; the felfinefs and ill defigns of
my neighbours diverts me from the publicl and better thoughts. I expecl;
yow will eafe my prefent difcontent.
Your's to ferve yow,
January Id 1661. R. BAILLIE.
FOR THE RYGHT REVEREND MR. ROBERT BAYLY, PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY
IN GLASGOW.1
REVEREND SIR,
I RECEAVED two of your letters laitly, the one whyl I was at home, two
dayes befor I was fent for to attend the Commiflioner ; the other by the
bearar, who feems to be a difcreet perfon, and can give yow fuch ane account
of matters relating to your letters, as will make it unnecefiary for me to fend
yow a large returne. 1 would not have imagined that fuch an abufe and
grofs injurie could have been defigned againd yow. 1 (hall doe my bed,
by the Lord's help, to give them check-meat. Any court I may be fuppofed
1 From the original, addressed as above, (Wodrow MS?. Folio Vol. xlix. No. 6.)
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 421
to have, (upon the continuance of which I doe not build,) (hall be with all
readines and good will, layed out to doe Mr. Baily fervice. My Lord Com-
miffioner2 is a wery judicious and moderat perfon, and, by his carriage in the
publick councills, hath gained wery great efteem : I have layed the way for
engaging him to be your freind. Yow will not, I hope, doubt of my Lord
Chancellor,3 nor the Thefaurer :4 my Lord Lawderdaill will not play the
courtier with yow. I have now in readines the draught of a prefentation for
yow, which I will without faile fend up by to-morroue's poaft ; and I doubt
not of a fpeedie and good account therof, though I wilh ther be nothing
fpoken of it to any befor it come doun. I am fure, befor my coming from
London, yow had the King's word for it, which I truft he will not alter. It
is neceflarie yow come, within eight or ten dayes, to this place, to pay your
refpe&s from your Univerfitie to his Majeftie's Commiffionar ; then we mall
have opportunity to commune about your vifitation. The late A61 of your
Synod, to my apprehenfion, and of the brethren heer, was unfeafonable, and
will doe more harm then good ; it fcapes not the conftruclion of imprudencie
and unhandfomenes putt upon it, at the left. I have not yet feen your
peece yow fent to Mr. Dickfon. I was preffed to preach the laft Lord's day5
to the Parliament, of which I hear variety of reports are fpread, which will
be increafed by the fooliftmes of the diurnall maker ; but I know yow will
allow me charity till yow fpeak with me. Yow fee how I fcrible ; I make
no doubt of your coming hither, and therfor (hall adde no more, but com
mending yow to the grace of Chrift, I am,
Your's,
JA. SHARP.
[FoR MR. ROBERT BAILLIE."]
REVEREND AND WORTHIE FREIND,
To convince yow once more that yow was too credulous in beleeving that
1 was dealing for Mr. Gilefpie, receave the inclofed paper, which indeed
2 John Earl of Middleton. 5 William Earl of Glencairne.
4 J'jhn Earl of Craufurd and Lindsay.
5 Oil the 6th January 1681, which serves to fix the date of this letter.
6 From the original, (Wodrow MSS. Folio Vol. xlix. No. 7-) : the address is not preserved.
422 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1661.
is all that I have done in favors of Mr. Patrick. But fuch reports are now no
ftrangers to me. Every week I finde, by letters from Edinburgh, that I am
reported there to be the great agent for my Lord Argyll, a calumnie as fals
as the former ; but I am fo hardend with twentie forts of lyes, which I heare
are vented of me there, that they make little impreflion on me. By God's
grace, I fhall ftudy to ferv my gratious Mailer and my Countrey faithfully,
let idle men talke, and others beleev what they pleafe ; it (hall little trouble
me. This paper mould have comd long agoe, if I had fooner gotten a copie
of a prefentation. His Majeftie gratioufly promifed it at his firft coming,
and readily figned it the other day. So to him yow owe all the thankes. I
can onely fay for my felf, that I fhall ever be ready to witnes to yow that I
forget not old freindfhip, and that I am, in the old manner,
SIR,
Your moft affectionate freind to ferv yow,
Whitehall, 24th January 1661. LAUDEHDAILL.
[WARRANT OP THE KING'S PRESENTATION TO MR. ROBERT BAILLIE AS
PRINCIPAL OF THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW.]
CHARLES R.
OUR Sovereign Lord taking into confideration that, fince the death of Dr.
John Strang, late Principall of the Colledge of Glafgow, the faid Colledge
hath been without a Principall, and that the intrufion of Mr. Patrick Gillef-
pie into that place, in thefe late tymes of Ufurpation, hath been no fmall pre
judice and detriment thereunto, and being very fenfible how neceflarie it is
for the good education of youth, and the flourifhing of pietie and learning
therein, that this place be filled with a man able and well qualified for dif-
charging thereof, and knowing well that MR. ROBERT BAILLIE, Profeffbr of
Divinitie there, is a fitt and well-qualified perfon for this employment :
Therefore his Majeftie ordains a Letter to be made, pad, and expede, under
his Highnefs Privie Seall of his Kingdome of Scotland, nominating, prefent-
ing, and appointing, likeas by thefe his Majeftie nominates, prefents, and
appoints the faid Mr. ROBERT BAILLIE, during all the dayes of his naturall
lifetime, to be Principall of the College of Glafgow ; giving, granting, and dif-
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 423
poning, likeas his Majeftie by thefe, gives, grants, and difpones to the faid
Mr. Robert the ftipend, fees, profites, emoluments, cafualities, with the
priviledges, liberties, and immunities belonging, knowen, and accuftomed
thereunto formerly to belong ; with full power to him to afk, crave, uplift,
receive, intromet with, brook, joife, ufe and difpone thereupon at his pleafure,
all and every the famen, ficklike as freely and fully in all refpedls as any
other Principall of the faid Colledge has, might, or ought to have done
heretofore : Heirby requiring the Moderators of the Univerfitie of Glafgow,
with .all convenient diligence after fight hereof, to enter, admitt, and receive
to this imployment the faid Mr. ROBERT BAILLIE, and that the faid Letter be
further extended in the beft, due, and ample forme, with all claufes needfull
and in fuch cafes accuftomed.
Given at our Court at Whitehall the 23d day of Januar, in the year of
our Lord one thoufand fix hundred fixty and one, and of our reigne the
twelfth year.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
This contains your Majeftie's nomination and prefentation of
MR. ROBERT BAILLIE to the place of Principall of the Colledge of
Glafgow for all the dayes of his life, with the ftipend, priviledges,
profits, and cafualities belonging to the fame.
LAUDERDAILL.
[FoR MR. WILLIAM SPANG.]
COUSIN,
I LONG much now to hear how it goes with yow and your familie, and
what is become of Dr. Strang's book ; for it is long fince I have heard from
yow. As yow defired, and as my cuftome is, I give yow here ane account of
our affaires fince my laft long letter; though yow readilie know all, yet it's not
unfitt yow mould know our fenfe and conception of them alfo. We ex
pected this year for great quietnefs at home, and for troubles abroad ; but
God, who governs all, has much difappointed both our hopes and fears, making
farre more confufion at home, and quietnefs abroad, than was expected.
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When the Portugalls had defeat the Spanifh army at Elvas, and Turein had
poflefled fo many places in the midft of Flanders ; the Engliih being mafter
of Dunkirk, and, with their navie on the coafl of Spaine, (earring the plate-
fleet from comeing home ; the Suede being ready to fwallow up Denmark,
and thereafter, with his French and Dutch friends, to fall on the Emperour, a
child ; the profperous fight of Ragotfi, of the Venetians, and the BafTa of
Aleppo, increafing the tumults in Conftantinople : Thefe things made us
expect great changes abroad : but before we were aware the fcales turned ;
France in the midft of his victories flopped, on what true motive we cannot
dreame ; his allyance with his coufm of Spaine feemed not fo defireable,
the Lady being fo fair in years beyond the King, and no great matter for
tocher offered, as we can hear. How Piementillie, who cheated the poor
Queen of Sueden out of her religion, her kingdome, and reputation, fhould
have gotten the Cardinal of France fo farre inchanted as to lay down armes,
when they mofl profpered, we marvell, and wait for the end. In the mean-
tyme, Spaine has gotten tyme to breath ; the riches of his fafe-landed fleet ;
the death of Modena ; the difcontent of Savoy for the French refufe of bis
fifter, after the interview at Lions ; Archduke Sigifmund [in] readinefs to
march to Flanders with the Imperiall army ; the changes in England draw
ing our thoughts home for the time ; the Pope's obflinate adherence flill to
the Spanifh againfl the Portugall ; the Queen of Spain's two fons has put
that old languilhing King once again on his feet ; your States beating of the
Suedifh navie ; the King's repulfes from his too furious and unreafonable
aflaults of Copenhagen ; the Imperiall, Brandeburgifh, and Polifh armie,
falling on Pomer ; the Dutch league of Colen, Mentz, and others, making
no diverfion ; France lying off ; the Englifh navie's goeing home, makes
the valour of Sueden to be overpowred, and all doubtful 1 of the event : for
we doe not expect any agreement of Denmark without all his confederates ;
and that they never will put Denmark in the poor terms of Rofkill's capitu
lation. However, the fearfull ruining of all Denmark's countrie, and the
flopping of Sweden in all his defignes through the ftrong armies leagued
againfl him, feeras to be the work chiefly of your States, on fome reafons of
their own, more than yet are vifible to the world. We blefs God, that lefle
blood is fhed in thefe bounds than we feared : we are forie for the ruining of
the Prince of Holften and Courland ; the Turks alfo feem to be in a much
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better condition ; the Perfian invafion of Babylon being a mere fable ; the
Baffa of Aleppo and all his partie ruined ; Ragotfi put to depend on the Em
peror for a fubfiftence ; the Vizier, by fea, putting in Candy what men he will ;
the Mufcoviters victories againft the Tartars and Cofaks being of no con-
fequence : So, where we expelled a quick overturning of flates and inspires in
a (hort time, affaires are fo turned about, that what was fhakeing is more
firmly eftablimed.
But with us all contrare : our very firm-like foundations in a moment over
turned. The Prote6lor Oliver indeavouring to fettle all in his familie, was
prevented by death before he could make a teflament : He had not fupplied
the blank with his fon Richard's name by his hand, and fcarce with his mouth
could he declare that much of his will ; there was no more witneffes of it but
Secretary Thurloe and Thomas Goodwin. Some did fearfully flatter him as
much dead as living. Thomas Goodwin, at the faft before his death, in his
prayer, is faid to have fpoken fuch words : " Lord, we pray no for thy fer-
vant's life, for we know that is granted ; but to hade his health, for that thy
people cannot want." And Mr. Sterrie, in the chapell after his death, — " O
Lord, thy late fervant here is now at thy right hand, making interceflion for
the fins of England." Both thefe are now out of favour at court as court-
parafites. But the mod fpoke, and yet doe fpeak, very evill of him ; and, as
I think, much worfe than he deferved of them. His buriall was large as
magnifick as any King of England. Richard immediately fate downe on his
chyre ; and, after a mod folemn inflalment, got addrefTes almoft from all the
fliyres, cities, regiments of the armies in England, Scotland, Ireland, Dun
kirk, from the navy, from the miniftrie, Prefbyterian, Independent, and
Anabaptiftick, all ftriveing who mould be firft and moft promifeing. All
neighbour-Hates of France, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Brandeburgh, Ham
burgh, Portugall, congratulating his fuccefiion. No appearance of the fmalleft
air of oppofition, till the officers of the armie did begin to petition for a Gene-
rall, and payment of their arrears. For their fatiffaclion a Parliament was
fummoned againil the 27th of January. This did meet frequently : fome
fay it was prettie well chofen, of men who for the moft had good defignes for
the public!;, and aimed at a folid fettlement both of Church and State ; but
among them were many for contrare defignes. The firft fencing was about
the Act of recognition : for albeit, at the entry in the Houfes, every one took
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the oath in the humble Petition and Advyce ; yet when it came to an A61
of recognition, many and (harp debates arofe. It was carried to acknow
ledge Richard for Protector ; but withall, that the Bill could not pafle till
the limitations of his power, the full fecuritie of the privileges of Parlia
ments, and libertie of the fubjecls, fhould pafle in the fame Aft. A com
mittee was appointed for that work, and Sir Harie Vaine fett in the chaire.
The Houfe of Lords alfo did pafle ; but in a poor and flighting way of ane
other Houfe.
In the meantime, Opdam, with the Holland fleet, pafled to the Sound. All
was alarmed with this ; and in a very fhort time the Protector, with the con-
fent of all, fent Montagu with as great a fleet, to wait upon them. All did
expect a prefent breach betwixt us and yow ; but fince your fleet did nothing
but fupplie Copenhagen with fome men and victuals, and did not tranfport
any of the confederate army to raife the fiege ; it feems the Englifli and Hol
land inftructions have been, not to fight, and fo to do but little fervice to
either partie all this long fummer. Whether yow will do fo ftill, when the
Englifh are returned, we will fliortly fee.
The Parliament's nixt work was about pay to the Armie. This was a bufi-
nefs, and yet is, almoft inextricable. The land-armies in Scotland, England,
Ireland, Flanders, and Jamaica, with the navie, reckoning every frigot of
fourtie guns to a regiment of foote, could not be within a hunder thoufand
men of daily pay ; the revenue, all being exactly counted, did not amount to
nyneteen hunder thoufand pound fterling ; the neceflare charge of the Armie
and State was above twenty- two hunder thoufand ; it was no marvell
then that the arrears of the armie fhould exceed twenty-five hunder thoufand,
and the Protector's debt many hunder thoufand pounds alfo : How all this
fhould be payed without the countrie's ruine, was the Parliament's great care.
While they are about this, the officers of the army have their daily meetings,
in Fleetwood's lodging or Wallingfurd-houfe. The Anabaptiftick and Re
publican partie had, by many papers, which now are printed, been fecretly, for
a long tyme, plying Fleetwood and the officers in conference, to returne to
their firft principles, to overthrow Oliver's felfie innovations, to abolifh the
other Houfe, and all government by one, under whatfomever name. The
Parliament finding thefe popular addrefles take much with the officers, and
that fuch meetings on fuch high confutations could not (land with their au-
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thoritie, refolved an Act for difiblving the meeting of Wallingfurd-houfe,
and to command all officers to attend their feverall charges in the three
Kingdomes, and to take an oath of obedience to the prefent Parliament.
While the other Houfe is adyyfing on that vote, the Prote6lor joyns with it,
and accordingly commands the officers to be gone to their charges. He and
the Houfe fuppofed that they had fo great a partie of the armie and citie for
them, that there was no hazard of any force : but they fand themfelves quick-
lie miflaken ; for the officers, with all fpeed, making a randivous at the back
of St. James's Park, in the Pell Mell, at eleven a' clock at night, before the Pro
tector had provided any thing for oppofition, they came immediately to Whit-
hall, and made the Protestor confent, under the Great Seall, not to the ad
journing, (which at firfl would have fatiffied,) but the diffblution of the Par
liament. To this moll hardly he did confent ; but his uncle Difbrough, and
brother Fleetwood, drew him to it with firme promifes of the armie' s readinefs
ftill to ferve him. When the officers faw the Parliament fo eafily diffolved they
fand themfelves unfecure, till, contrare to Fleetwood and Diibrough's mind,
they made the Protector lay downe his place, and took, for a tyme, the go
vernment of all into their own hand. To this alfo the Protector did quietly
fubmitt, and, from a very great Prince, did defcend to a very private and quiet
gentleman. The officers immediately put down the Councell of State ;
removed out of the armie all the Protector's confidents ; the regiments of the
Protector, Ingolfby, Whalley, Goff, Falconbridge, Howard, and others, were
given to Lambert, Overtoun, Okey, and fuch whom Oliver had outed. The
Tower was taken from Barkfted, the Great Seall from Nat. Fynes, and a
flrange change made. But the officers were quickly wearie of the burden of
the government. After much advyfement, they fell on a very unexpected
overture, to fet down with a Parliamentary power, fo many of the Long Par
liament that remained uncaft out, when the Protector, in the year 1652, had
diflblved them. Of thefe they fand in the citie and about it, about fourtie ;
whom, with Lenthall, their fpeaker, they moved to fit downe in the houfe, the
fixth of May ; who fince that time hes ruled as a Parliament. At the very
firfl all the Armie' s propofalls pafl in Ads of parliament : A Councell of State
of threttie-one was conilitute. All this was done without any dinne, except
what Mr. Prin and fome other fharp pamphleteers made ; which they mifre-
garded. For the citie of London, the mofl of all the regiments in the three
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nations, did fend them congratulatorie addrefles, fo full of good words as ever
were made to either of the Cromwells ; whofe names by many were then
teared in the word language, pictures, and pamphlets, that could be. Some
fturr was expected from Henry [Cromwell] in Ireland, Monck in Scotland,
and fome other of the Protector's friends ; but all came to juft nothing.
The new old Parliament's firft and chief work was to conflitute the armie.
A committee of nomination was to nominate everie officer in every regiment ;
the crouner, lieutenant, major, every captain, enfigne, etc. All thefe were
appointed to come to the barre of the Houfe, to receave their new commif-
fions, and make their oath there to the Parliament. This was a long and
faftiious work, and is not yet ended. Many officers were left out without
any accufation. Nothing in this was the work of the Generall, which many
took for a flighting of him. The armie indured all this as coming from the
hands of their trufty friends ; but an other work of the Parliament ftartled
them more ; the eftablifhing of the militia of the counties in fuch hands as
the Parliament nominat : thefe went, if complete, to the number of twenty
thoufand horfe, and four-fcore thoufand foot, to be paid by the counties
when they were in fervice. This was a vifible curb to the Armie's power, and
a hazard to their pay : for the countrie was unable to pay both. But it
feems this countrie-militia was but for a tyme.
While thefe things are in doeing, there arife a generall mifcontent among
the people every where in England, which bred a confpiracie in many fhyres,
to take armes at feverall rendevoufes, the 18th of Auguft. But before the
1ft of Auguft, all was revealed : Mafley, Titus, and others, from the King,
were faid to have been for diverfe moneths at work in the citie and countrii-
to make a pairtie. The chief ftickling was where lead expected, in Cheflhyre
and Lancalhyre : Sir George Booth had drawn the mod of the people after
him. The report of this thing flew every where, and increafed the num
ber and ftrength of the confpirators hugelie above truth ; for when it came
to the proof, they were found unconfiderable. Fleetwood and the militia
of London, keeped down the citie, the rifeing whereof was moft feared.
A few old troupes and the new militia of the fhyres did preveene, and
eafilie fupprefle, the rendevoufes in Kent, Hartfordftiire, Glocefterfliire,
Notinghame, Derby, Leicefter, Shropfhire, and other places. Lambert,
with four or five thoufand horfe and foot, making a quick march north-
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ward, did meet with Sir George Booth at a bridge fome rayles from
Chefter : his ten thoufand horfe were become towards two thoufand horfe
and foot ; the difpute was nought fcarce half an houre ; Sir George had
not threttie killed, and Lambert hardly one. Chefter, Manchefter, Prefton,
Liverpool, randred on the firft fummons ; Sir George fleeing towards Lon
don, in women's apparell, was taken at Newport- Pennell [Pagnel], the Earl
of Derby in Shrew fburry : in a very few dayes all wes compefcit without
blood. Sir George Booth's confeffions, they fay, are fo liberall, that manie
talks he hes been but ane emuTarie of purpofe to difcover who were dif-
affecled to the Parliament, to have them cruihed ; but others, who know
the gravitie of the gentleman, and confiders his declaration, doe not believe
neither this, nor his rumoured confeflions. At the firft, many of the Prefby-
terian minifters in the city and country, was faid to be on this plot ; but this
lykewayes appears now to be a vaine report. Ere long, doubtlefs, we will
hear of all the bottome of the bulinefs ; for the tyme we know no more but
what the Diurnall tells us.
So foone as this was over, the armie was carefull to caufe the Parliament
diffolve, and pay off the countrey-militia, that it might not (land when there
was no more ufe of it than to be a vifible curb to them. Yet the people's
generall mifcontentment remains : for though the decay of trade hes increafed
the povertie of the countrie, yet the neceffities of the armie and navie increafes
the taxations very much, nor is yet any government eftablifhed. The Par
liament and army agree againft all monarchic, whether of Kings or Protectors,
and againft the Houfe of Lords ; but what forme of Republick to fettle, this
they differ on. Some are for the perfeverance, if not perpetuitie, of this part
of the old Parliament that now litts ; others for a new Parliament of Commons,
chofen according to the qualifications which this Parliament mail agree upon ;
others for a Parliament of two or three thoufand of the people, with a co-
ordinat power of a Senate, to be a check on the peoples extravagancie : what
of thefe fhall be determined we expert to hear. Some think that difference
in the Parliament, not like to be agreed. Prevalencie of the Quakers and
Fifth-monarchy men fo farr, that they have obtained James Naylor, that mon-
ftrous blafphemer, out of prifon ; and have moved fome wife Prefbyterians,
Independents, and more fober Anabaptifts, to fyncretifme againft their
danger, will force the armie once more to raife the Parliament, and fupplicat
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Lambert, a very wife, (lout, active, fober, gentleman, to take the govern
ment upon him : but what will be the end of all, we referr it to God.
Scotland's condition for the tyme is not good : exhauft in money ; dead in
trade ; the taxes near doubled ; fince the (ixth of May without all law, nor
appearance of any in hafte. My Lord Wariftoun was called to the Houfe of
Peers by the lad Prote&or : when the Parliament was diflblved, his old
friend, Sir Henry Vaine, got him in the Councell of State, and the mod or-
dinare chairman thereof : all the weight of Scots affairs lyes on him alone.
Argyle, though he went thither a Commiffioner for Aberdeenftiyre, and fat
in the Houfe of Commons, complying with the Protector fo long as he flood,
and with the new Parliament fo much as any delired ; yet was mifregarded ;
and for fear of arreiftment for debt, (lipped away home with fraall credit or con
tentment. The reft of the Scots commiffioners, Swinton, Garfland [Garth-
land], Major Barclay, Earle of Lithgow, Earle of Tweddale, etc., comply as
they pleafed, did fignifie little thing ; but Wariftoun was all. He was made to
beljieve that our union would be a (hort bufinefs ; and that it was better to want
law than for to have it before the union : but that conceit hes made us want
the Summer Seflion, and may be the Winter too ; for the debates of the union
grew fo long, that they fay it's laid afide till they have agreed once on the
government of England, to which we are to be united. No man pays any
debt but of his own accord. That which much retarded our union, was a
petition from many hands in our countrie, put on by Garfland, young Dun-
das, our Quakers, and many others, for a full tolleration to be infert in the
act of our union. This was fo well backed by fome of the officers of the
armie, that till it be fatiffied, nothing can be gotten done, though Warrifton
doe his uttermoft againft it.
Upon fufpicion that fome in Scotland might be on the Englifti plot, the
Generall called all who had been in armes, and were under bands, to take a
new oath, of renouncing the Stewarts, and adhereing to the prefent govern
ment : Who refufed were laid up in prifons ; Montrofe, Calendar, Lome,
Selkirk, Kenmure, Didup, Loudoun, David Lefley, Sir James Lumfden, and
others. Some took it, as Glencarne, and, as they fay, Rothes, Montgomerie,
etc. : but it's thought there was no Scots flefli on this defigne, whether be-
caufe not trufted, or not defired by the Englifli, who would doe it all their
alone, is not known ; but, however, it's thought none of our nation were upon it.
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What was talked of Kinnoul and General Major Montgomerie, landing in our
Hielands wes found a mere fable. Our people are fo ill bitten, and fo ex
ceedingly low, that though there were no garrifons to hold them downe, they
have neither a mind nor abilitie to make any noife.
Our Church lyes as it was, full of grief, for inward divisions, and outward
hazard. As yet the Englifh troubles us not : and truly they have no caufe ;
for, whatever be our thoughts, yet in all expreffions we are fo quiet and
peaceable as they could wifh. Being afrayed for Wariftoun's unceflant de-
lignes, the brethren of Edinburgh moved Mr. Sharp to goe up again to at
tend his motions. The Protector Richard took very weell with him and
fundry members of Parliament ; but when thefe were put down, Warrifton
deferred him to the Councell, as correfponding with Maffey and Titus.
Being upon this called to the Councell, Sir Harie Vaine and Mr. Scot
were fent out to conferr with him, to whom he gave abundant fatiffac-
tion, and a little after was fent home in peace.
The pafTages of our )aft Synod of Glafgow, yow may read in my let
ter to Mr. Dowglafs ; and of our Colledge, in my letter to Mr. Sharp.
Mr. Gillefpie, by Secretary Thurloe, had procured from the Protector Richard
a patent, commanding us, out of our rents, old and new, to adde yearly to Mr.
Gillefpie' s former ftipend, a hundred pound flerling yearly, upon three very
untrue narratives. 1. That he was not fufficiently provided ; while he had a
hundred and threttie pound, which is more than any Principall hes in Scot
land. 2. That the Colledge rent could weell bear it ; while as now, it does
not pay our ftipends and table till the year after. 3. That the labour of his
charge was extraordinar ; while he does as good as nothing in his proper
charge, but goes about buildings, pleas, and journey es, all the year over.
We thought neither law nor reafon would bear throw that procured patent,
and all were difpleafed with it ; yet fince I was to plead nothing before the
Englifh, and knew no other would, I was content he mould have the tiling,
[1.] Upon condition, he held out the narratives ; 2. That it fhould be out only
of our new rents of his procurement ; 3. That he fhould pafle from his former
gift of the half of the augmentations of Galloway ; 4. That this his gift
fhould not be for his fuccefTor. On this a write was drawn, and all fub-
fcryved ; but herein I was offended, that when he defired the by-runs of the
augmentations of Galloway paffing from them in time to come, and we
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granted his defire ; in the very firft article, he put in the teinds of Staplegor-
toun, which came to two thoufand eight hundred pound, which wes to him
one thoufand four hundred pound ; at this I ftormed, that compofition being
obtained in Dr. Strang's tyme, though formallie clofed after his coming, and
long agoe fpent. From this he paffed ; yet, by debts and compofitions
made, thefe bygone augumentations amounts to above two thoufand merks,
the half whereof he took. We would have been glad he had refted here ;
but his nixt motion was, to pull down the whole forework of the Colledge,
the high Hall, and Arthurlie, very good houfes, all newly drefled at a great
charge. I was very grieved at this not only totallie needlefs but hurtfull
motion, and got the mod of our number to be in my mind, though he of
fered to get it builded without any coft to the Colledge, out of the remain
der of Mr. Zacharie Boyd's mortification, eight thoufand merks in my Lord
Loudoun's hands, the vacancies of kirks, and other means he would procure.
All this fatiffied no diverfe of us, yet warring us by Mr. John Young's vote,
we behooved to let it goe. I reafoned much for a delay, till in the next
fpring we had gotten fome money, and faw how the world would goe ; but
all in vain : prefentlie the Hall was pulled down. All fince, I think, repent
their raftmefs, and all beholders cry out on us. This year and the next our
Colledge will lye open ; want of law makes us void of money, yet now we
muft goe on by our private borrowings, and any other way he can invent.
I am now more ready to further it than any who voted to it, for we cannot
now let it lye. Another of his notions has alfo falhed us : we expecled great
things of the Deanrie and Subdeanrie of Hamilton ; all came to four or fy ve
chalder of victual ; but he took a conceit of the great advantage to buy the
benefice, and beflow on it eighteen thoufand merks. We had fourteen thou
fand merks of burfar-money, there would be two or three thoufand of by-run
dueties, and we behoved to borrow the reft ; to this alfo we confented, but
not very willinglie, for fear of clampers in the end. The bargain yet flicks
unperfecled. He appointed a new factor to take up the bygones, of the
readied, his wife following him to London, a thoufand merks, as he had done
another when he went. Our order is, that our ftipends (hould be payed to
all men proportionablie ; but when he had that two thoufand merks, there
was not a groat to give any man of that year's ftipend, the half whereof was
due at January 1ft, and the other at July 1ft.
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We were afraid he would do much harme to our Church and Town when
he came to London ; yet we hear not what he has performed. Finding the
weight of living there on his own charges, he wrote to our Rector to fee if
we would defyre him to flay on our affaires. We underftood that this did
import twenty (hillings fterling a day to him from the Colledge, from what
day to what day he pleafed ; alfo, we conceived that all our gifts, which con
cerned none of us but himfelf, which then were fallen, would eafily be gotten
renewed by his miffives to his great friends ; all of us, therefore, did refufe to
fend him any defyre to ftay. This he took very ill, profefling great content
that he was free of the burden of attending our buffinefs ; but grieved that
we mifregarded our bufinefs fo far as not to have fent up fome other of our
number to wait on it. He went up and came down- with my Lady Swinton
in her coatch. What will be his next defigne we know not, but I think we
will not be long a-hearing it.
Our Toune has been in more peace than formerly. Mr. Gillefpie's four
months abfence, want of publick judicatories has helped to it ; but no good
will in fome is inlacking to keep in the fire. The laft trick they have fallen
on, to ufurp the Magiftracie, is, by the diligence of their feflioners to make
factions in every craft, to get the deacons and deacon-convener created of
their fide ; and herein they have much prevailed : but with fuch ftrife as fome-
times it has come to ftrokes : but this lent-way does no fatiffie. It's feared,
by Wariftoun's diligence, fome orders (hall be procured by Mr. Gillefpie, to
have all the Magiftrates and Counfell chofen as he will. Thefe in place has
guided the toune fo moderately and wifely, that none are expected to doe it
better : notwithstanding of their hudge charge to defend themfelves againft
Mr. Gillefpie's pleas, they have flill keeped the towne free of all taxes, when
all our other burghs are wracked with them. They have builded a fair meal-
market, which has been near three thoufand merks ; a fair bridge at Colin's
port, whilk will be above one thoufand merks ; a very fair merchant-hofpitall,
near the bridge, which will be a great foume, and is mofl done by contribu
tion. Their loffe of Mr. George Young1 was very fad to them ; he was wife
and active, and very watchful for their good, keeped them at peace among
themfelf, prevented and crumed many defignes of their oppofites, fet them
1 Mr. George Young was brought from Mauchline, in 1644, to be one of the ministers of
Glasgow.
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upon many things for their own good. He preached on March 20th with his
ordinar health, only he had a cold, which encreafed upon him, and made him
take his bed with fome fever, which grew dill with a great defluxion, where
with he was chocked, being hale in all his noble parts, and in vigour enough ;
he fpoke but little, but very well and graciouflie, and expired without paine
on the Saturday March 26th, the fixty-fird of his age, with the great regrate
of all, except the faction to whom he ever profeffed oppofition. He was
one of the bed and kindefl friends I had. For the provideing of his place
there has been much dinn, and like to be more. The Magidrates, Town
Councell, and all the parifh, who are conliderable, did choice Mr. James
Ferguflbn ; but the feflion choice Mr. John Liviftoune as one mod active
for their partie, wife and powerfull with the Engliih. Mr. John Cardares's
fuperlative praifes of him, in his preaching and prayers, were according to
his manner exceflive. At the intimation of his call the parifh and magiflrates
protefted, but they went on, and fent to invite him from prefbyterie and
feflion ; but the town and parifli fent to intreat him not to come, on the
reafons of their proteftation. His anfwers to both were but coldrife ; yet
the great diligence that is ufed with him, by the chief of the party, may make
him to come. If his Synod loufe him, which readilie they will, for any
oppofition of magiflrat or people he will not regard it, who diverfe times
has admitted others contrare to the mind of feflion, prefbyterie, fynod, and
all. We will fhortlie fee the end.
Mr. Ralph Rodger, for all his averfnefs, his Prefbyterie' s determining him
to day, and our Town's protedation, yet on the Synod's act is come ; and if
he goe on as he has begun, will be as fober and profitable minider here as
any they have. Mr. Francis Aird, whom they would have had, is dead
Ihortlie of a feaver in five or fix dayes. Mr. David Veitch, one of the
abled of our prefbyterie, minider of Govan, having preached on the Sunday,
was buried before the next ; fo unhappie is it to fucceed depofed men. In
Decerfe [Dalferf] poor Mr. John Hamilton was put out, I know no for what :
his two fucceflbrs, good men, Mr. John Weir and Mr. Francis Aird, did both
die unexpectedlie. Mr. William Wilkie, I thought, was unjudlie put out of
Govan, albeit his very evill carriage fince has declared more of his fins, yet
both his fucceflbrs, Mr. Hew Binny [Binning], and Mr. David Veitch, died
in their youth. Mr. John Crichtoun was too jufllie depofed from Paflay,
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yet his fucceffor, Mr. Colvert, was fuddenlie overtaken with a palfie and
died; and Mr. Alexander Dunlop is fo gone with the fcrubie, that he is
not like to live long. I have a long catalogue of fuch fad examples. I
believe guiltie men, of crimes deferving depofition, ought not to be fpared ;
but the violence of fundrie perfuing their brethren without reafon, I never
did approve.
Sundrie heavie accidents have latelie fallen out amongft us. Baillie
Walkinfhaw's mofl prettie boy of four or five years old, on a Sunday after
noon, fell down his ilair, and fpoke no more, but died. Thomas Brown,
late baillie, having fupped, lay down and died before midnight. Thomas
Main, our factor, at his breakfafl weel, while he ftretcht out his hand to the
cup, is fuddenlie overtaken with a palfie ; fpoke no more, but in a day or
two dies. Thomas Robifon, in Salcots, fitting at his own fire-fide, is ftobbed
to death by a highlandman, put upon him by Pennimor to get his goods to
his fon who had married Robifon's daughter. A daughter of Mr. Archbald
M'Lauchlane, minifter at Luffe, a widow, a very weell-favoured woman,
being found in the act of bafe adulterie with William Watfon, and William
Hume, was put in the tolbooth where fhe hanged herfelf. Janet Hiegat in
Falkirk, of a lewd life, vexed with a naughtie hufband, did the like.
My Lord Belhaven, without any example I ever heard of in Scotland,
with his Ladie a very wittie woman's advyce, did faine death, and for feven
yeares was taken by all for dead, yet now appears againe fafe and found in
his own houfe. He was much ingadged for Duke Hamilton : fearing the
creditors might fall on his perfon and eftate, and knowing, if he were re
puted dead, his wife, by conjunct-fie and otherwayes, would keep his eilate ;
he went, with his brother and two fervants, towards England. Thefe re
turned, affirming, that in Solway Sands my Lord was caried downe by the
river, and they could no refcue him. His horfe and his hatt they got, but
when all fearch was made, his bodie could not be found. His Ladie and
friends made great dool for him, and none controverts his death.2 In the
mean time he goes beyond London and farmes a piece of ground, and
lives very privatelie there. He had but one boy, a verie hopefull youth,
2 Sir John Hamilton of Broomhill, raised to the peerage by the title of Lord Belhaven and
Stenton, 15th December 1647- The above incident is also narrated with some additional par
ticulars, by John Nicol, who states that Lord Belhaven was absent for six years, and returned
to Scotland in January 1659. (Diary, &c. pp. 233, 234.)
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and prettie fcholler ; God ftrikes him with a fever, as his Mother faid, but,
as others, with a fall from a horfe, whereof in a few dayes he dies. In this
reall death, by God's hand, who will no be mocked, the hope of that houfe
perifhed. So foon as the Duke's debt was fatiffied by felling his own lands,
the fecret journies of my Lord to his own houfe were efpied, and fo much
talked of, th.it he now at lafl appears in public!;, for his great difrepute ;
and though he difpofes of his edate to his good-fon Sillertoun3 after his
death, yet many think both their edates will goe.
There has been a great plague amongft the horfe in all Britain, to the
death of many thoufands of the bed. What yow inquire of the apparition
in Galloway is notourlie known. In Glenlufs pariih, in John Campbell a
webfter's houfe, for two or three yeares a fpirit did whiles cafl Hones, oft
fire the houfe, and cut the webs in the looms, yet did never any confiderable
harme. The man was a good, pious, refolut man, and never left his houfe
for all ; fundrie miniders of the Prefbyterie did keep fading and praying in
the houfe without moleftation ; fometyme it fpoke, and the minifter, Mr.
John Scot, was fo wife as to intertain large difcourfes with it. It were long
to* write all the pafiages : this twelvemoneth it has been filent. A fturdie
beggar who had been a mod wicked and avowed atheift, for which he was
hanged at Dumfreis, did oft lodge in that houfe ; about his death it became
more quiet, yet thereafter it became troublefome enough, but for the time
is filent. There is much witcherie up and downe our land ; though the
Englifh be but too fpareing to try it, yet fome they execute.
For myfelf, blefled be God, I am weell. My lad y care's fitting in a riven
chamber, gave a fwelling and tinging in my bellie which yet remains. I
have no pain, yet it makes me lumpifh, and unwilling to travel). Harie
is well and iludies. My daughter Lilias lives weell in Aire, and hes heired
Kildonel [KiTdonan] with a fine boy. I maried my dep-daughter the other
moneth to Mr. Robert Watfon, minider at Cardrofle, a young man of verie
good reputation. My daughter Helen is almod a woman : Elizabeth and
Mary are growing fad up in grace and dature. My younged, Margaret,
Dr. Strang's oye, is a very prettie quick child of two years old. I blefs
the Lord in thefe evill dayes I get leave to lurk within our precinct ;
except on the Sabbath to church, goeing very rarely any where abroad.
3 Sir Robert Hamilton of Silvertonhill.
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My defire is that it may be weell with yow, your kind wife, and all your
children. Our coufin, good Nanie Gibfon, had a felt gravel ending in a hul-
cer ; it created her great pain, till in a moneth or two it took her away. A
daughter of Ja. Tran, of a great ftone, but after a yeare's great pain, of late
expired : her hufband and his parents were doggitly unkind to the young
woman, though a good one, of a good portion. Caflelmilk, a good meek
gentleman, near fourfcore, healthy all his dayes, fitting down weell to break-
faft, prefently fell downe in a found, and died in a few houres. John
Gibfon of Clayflop, a vigorous old man of eighty yeares, going home from
Glafgow on foot, Heps in to Matthew Colquhoun's for a mutchkin of wine,
while he is drinking it at table, falls down and dies immediately. John
Herbertfon long weak in his chamber, yet on the bonefire-night fupped,
drank the King's health, and within an hour died unexpectedly. Mr.
Gavin Hamilton, late minifter of Cader, was abroad on the Thurfday, on
Fryday all day up, but died ere midnight.
This farr had I written with my former long letter much of a year agoe ;
but it lay befide me, that I might fee fome fettling of thefe extraordinar and
happie changes, which the hand of God, above all humane hope or reafon, hes
wrought its alone. After Sir George Booth's defeat, all did almofl defpaire
of human help for our evills. I heard fweet JBalcarras at the Hague did die
of grief for that calamitie ;4 his bodie his lady brought home, and caufed
burie honourablie at his parifh-church : without doubt that was one of the
moil brave and able gentlemen of our nation, if not the moft able. I am not
yet fatiffied with Chancellor Hyde's very unjuft breaking of his neck : God
will fee to it. It was the Parliament's work, efpecially Vane, Hafilrig, and
Scot, to fearch out all the complices of Sir George Booth ; and doubtlefs, if
God had not, in anfwer to the prayers of the choice minifters and people of
Lancalhyre, given them fomewhat elfe to doe, they had made much execu
tion of many good and honed men. But behold, when they are running to
fuck this blood and fpoile, the Lord cafts ane other bone in their teeth. The
officers which had defeat Sir George, lifted up with that deferving, expe&ed
from the Parliament all they could defyre. With this confidence they approach
the citie. Many of them fubfcry ve a petition, to get all the generall officers
eftablifhed, and when this did not weel relifli in the Houfe, (for Hafilrig and
4 Alexander Second Earl of Balcarras, died at Breda 30th August 1 659.
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Vane were very jealous of Lambert,) they preft it harder : whereupon the
Houfe, trufting to the late oaths of obedience from all the officers, makes bold
to caiheir Lambert, Aflifield, Cobbet, and diverfe others. Upon this affront,
the officers went to the Houfe, and with threats diflblved them. In this new
confufion, all was put to a ftand, not knowing what to doe : a judiciall blind-
nefs fell among them : all were malcontent, and raifed in mind to expe& and
defire a change ; but none durft venture on any more action.
Our Noblemen, very fecretly, moft by the mediation of the Lady Weims, a
wittie a&ive woman, whofe daughter Buccleugh5 was in Monck's cuftodie, at
Dalkeith, did oft folicit him to attempt for the King ; but doubts and feares
(till keeped him off: yet when Hafilrig and others had importuned him from
England to afiift the Parliament againft the violence of Lambert and his partie,
he called the moft of the armie to draw near to Edinburgh. He fent for Com-
miffioners from every one of our fhyres, and defired them to advance fix
moneths maintenance. Though this in our deep povertie was almoft to us un-
feafible, yet on good hopes, it was cheerfully and quickly done. He had of
his.owne above fiftie thoufand pound flerling, which helped him to give good
fatiffaction to his fojors, while the armie in England was put to live on free
quarter, all the myres refufeing to pay any more money till a free Parliament
did command it. There went a ftrong Remonftrance amongft the mod myres,
againft an arbitrary fword-government and all taxes, till a free Parliament ;
but to fugar it, there were two claufes put in, one againft the Stewarts and
all Monarchic, ane other for full libertie of confcience to all Sectaries. This
encouraged Monck to declare to the officers of the armie at London, his de-
lires of a free Parliament. This did much ftartle them ; and when many papers
had paft among them, and Monck continued refolute to march into England
for that end, Fleetwood fent down to him Mr. Caryll, Colonell Whalley, Goff,
and his brother-in-law Dr. Clargis. Thefe wrought him to a treatie, for which
he fent three of his officers to London, Cloberry, Wilks, and Knight : thefe
were fo laboured on by their friends, that they made an accord, and fub-
fcryved it. But Monck being more and more encouraged both from Scot
land and England, and having purged his army from Cobbett, Young,
5 Mary Countess of Buccleugh in her own right, the greatest heiress then in Scotland, mar
ried, in the 1 1 th year of her age, Walter Scot of Highchester, who was created Earl of Tarras
in 1660. She died without issue in 1661.
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Some, Holmes, and many Anabaptifts, filling their places with a number of
Scottifh old fojors, he refufed that accord as done contrare to his inftruc"lions.
Finding him grow in refolution and ftrength, they fent to the north Lambert
with five thoufand of their bed horfe, and fome three or four thoufand foot,
with which he came to Newcaftle on free quarter. Monck came to Berwick
in the mids of December, and lay on the fields in a very cold winter, near
Caldftreim, with fix or feven thoufand good foot, and within two thoufand
horfe. Many of our Noblemen came to him at Berwick, and offered to raife
quickly for his fervice all the power of Scotland ; but the mod of his officers
refuifed it, fearing the flumbling of their armie and friends in England ; for
as yet all of them, in their right-weell penned papers, did declare as pofi-
tively as ever, with divine atteftations, againft all Kings and Monarchic, and
for a free Parliament, and all former principles. Lambert was the farr
flrongeft, and eafily might have cutted in pieces all Monck's partie, and
made havock in our poor land, as they fay it was their purpofe, defigning the
chief of our nobles and miniflers for the fcaffold, and many minifters for
Jamaica, whereof I heard myfelf was one ; but bleffed be the Lord who
keeped us from their bloody teeth. Monck refolved to keep his ground at
Caldftreim, and if he were beaten, to retire to Stirling, and take our help. Our
nobles, by his allowance, but without all ingagement, fent Major Buntein to
Breda, where the King was, with his Sifter, in a very hard condition. He had
gone to Bayonne, conferred with the Cardinall and Du Haro, to gett his intereft
confidered in the treatie. He got from both courteous words ; but, in effect;,
was by both neglected. Coming back with a perplexed heart, with his brother
York, through France and Flanders, to his Sifter at Breda, fcarce tollerat by the
States GeneralPs connivance, to abide in the Prince of Orange's bounds, he
is much refrefhed by what he heard from Scotland. About the fame time
Broghill and Sir Charles Gouts fends Sir Arthure Forbefle to him from
Ireland, and fome from England makes him hopefull of Lambert. This puts
him in an uncertaintie to what partie firft he mould apply himfelf : Hyde
inclined moft to Lambert ; LauderdailPs letters, and thefe from Scotland
advifed to truft Monck or Scotland ; however, Ormont inclyned to accept
the Irifh offers. All the meffengers he difmifled kindly, with good anfwers.
But in the meane time, Colonell Wotham invited Hafilrig, and fome of the
militia of the late Parliament, to Portfmouth, where he commanded. Here,
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incontinent, forces are gathered, fome four or fyve thoufand men, who march
directly to London. The people favoured them rather than their oppofites.
But Fleetwood with his forces in the citie, and Defborough with his canon
from the Tower, held the citie at under. Yet fo foon as Hafilrig came near
with his forces, reported to be far above the truth, both Fleetwood and Def
borough retired, and Hafilrig entered ; and incontinent fat downe in the laft
Parliament, fent letters to Monck to hade up, and emitted an a6l of indemni-
tie to all who did fubmit. Lambert was not able any longer to keep his peo
ple in order, fo retired fpeedilie towards London, and, with Fleetwood and
the reft, accepted the act of indemnitie, and retired to their houfes.
On the 1ft January 1660, Monck did march orderly, and at leafure, to Lon
don : wherever he came he was received as an angell ; bells and bonfires wel
comed him. All declared their earned defires of a free Parliament, and gave
him great encouragement to procure it : he was civill to all, but referved himfelf
to fee farder. Mr. Dowglafs and Mr. Sharp had been free with him in Scot
land ; on his letter, Mr. Sharp followed him and overtook him. So foon as
he* reached London, he was to him the mod wife, faithfull, and happy coun-
fellor he had ; and if it had not been for God's afliftance to Mr. Sharp,
Monck was diverfe times on the point of being circumveened, or of himfelf
to have yielded to dedructive counfells. The Parliament fent two, and the
citie three, to meet him at Nottinghame, with many fair words and great ho
nours; but didjoyn three with him in commifiion, to curb his power. They
had put Vain, Whitelock, and others, out of the Houfe ; they were fecure of
Fleetwood, Lambert, and the red of the army ; their only fear was Monck.
They defired he mould not bring his army to the citie : he quartered about
it ; but himfelf came to the Houfe, and got many good words, and gave als
many. Sundry Qiyres did petition for a new free Parliament. Sundry of
the petitioners were laid up for this. Monck at all was filent and ambigu
ous. There had fitten long in the citie, very fecretly, a committee of two
from every fhyre, and four of the citie, advifeing how to cad off the yoke of
flaverie. When they fand the rump of the Long Parliament of forty-four
to reject the petition of manie fhyres for a new free Parliament, alfo the peti
tion of two hundred and fifty members, unjudlie by Cromwell cad out, to be
readmitted ; and all that could be obtained from Hafilrig, who then ruled all,
was to fupply the Houfe againd fuch a day with members of many qualifica-
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tions, which they made, and whereof they would be judges, chiefly that all'
mould fwear againft the Stewarts, and all government by one ; the people,
almoft defperat, mett in common councell, and voted no more addrefies, nor
more payments, till a new free Parliament did fitt. Herewith the Houfe is
inradged, and votes the uncitying of London, a calling down of all their gates,
pods, and chains ; for walls they had none fince Cromwell pulled down their
lanes of communication ; the common counfell was abolifhed, and a new one
appointed to be chofen. Monck was commanded to fee thefe votes execut,
and fo to become moft odious to the people, that the more eafily they might
deftroy both. Monck was in a very hard taking, yet did obey ; and the peo
ple permitted him patiently to doe all he pleafed : The gates and pods are
pulled down ; the common counfell is changed ; but behold a prefent change.
The fool Halilrig had wyped the Citie's and Monck' s nofe to the blood.
Monck, by conference with the fecluded members, prefbyterian minifters,
and chief citizens, is encouraged to write a (harp letter to the Parliament, of
his refentment of their feveritie to the Citie, and dallying with Fleetwood,
Lambert, Vaine, Ludlow, and others, though declared againft ; farder, of his
owne ingagement to the Citie, that within five dayes they mould iffue letters
for calling a new free Parliament againft the 25th of Aprile.
In the meane tyine, Hafilrig, Scot, and others, did fend many meflages to him;
and near had gained him to come out of the Citie, and lye at Whitehall: but Mr.
Sharp's night labours here were happy. On the 20th of Februar Monck went
to the Houfe, and fett down the fecluded members. At this the citie and coun-
trie's joy was unexpreflible ; bells and bonefyres every where ; Monck made
Captain- General of all forces by fea and land of the three kingdomes, and
General- Major of the citie-militia ; Hafilrig, Secretarie Scot, and others of
the rump, fneakit away to the countrie ; Lambert and Overtoun were put in
the Tower ; a Councell of State of thirty-one, Lewis, Holice, Crewe, Knight-
ton, Peirpoint, and fuch ; the Covenant appointed to be hung up in the Houfe,
alfo in every church, and to be read folemnly once every year ; Sir George
Booth and all his partie were let free ; alfo Lauderdaill, Crawfurd, and all of
ours, were freed of their long prifons. Commifiioners from our fhyres, Glen-
cairne, Durie, Garden, William Thomfon, with Monck's good allowance, came
to London. Frequent private mefiengers went to the King. He, from Breda,
fent over Sir John Greenville and Dr. Morley, with a very gracious meflage,
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to both Houfes, to the Citie, to the General, which fatiffied all. An order of
Parliament given to proclaime the King, May 8th ; which was done over all
England mod fblemnlie. A Committee of fix Lords, twelve Commoners,
three Aldermen, nine Common-Councellors, with fundry citie-miniflers, Ca-
lamy, Manton, Reinolds, etc. fent to Breda to hade the King home ; fifty
thoufand pound [fterling] fent him in money, ten thoufand in gold ; to his bro
ther [York], ten thoufand in money, one in gold ; to Gloucefter, five in money,
one in gold. Landing at Dover, he flayed Sunday in Canterburie, Monday
in Rochefter, Tuefday, May 29th, his birth-day, came to the Citie, with the
mod folemn (hew and heartieft joy that, I think, was ever in England. At
Whitehall, Manchefter and Grimftone, the Speakers of the two Houfes did
welcome him in more cordiall than eloquent fpeeches. He had from Breda
given full fecuritie, on his word, to men of all profeflions, to live in peace ;
for fatiffadlion to the fojours of their arriers ; for keeping them in pofiefiion
of the Croun and Church lands, till they were fatiffied ; for pardoning of all
by ganes, except a few, whom the Parliament might except, for their eminent
hand in his Father's murder. The firft morning he came to Whitehall, he
iflued a proclamation againft profanitie, fwearing, and healths. Thankfgivings
to God for this his own work, with bells and bonefires, went quickly through
all the three Kingdomes. Monck was made Baron, Earle, and Duke of
Albemarle, matter of the horfe, one of the Privie Councell, General! of all
the forces under the King ; Ormond, ftewart of the houfe ; Mancheiler,
chamerlaine ; Lauderdaill, a gentleman of the Bed-chamber; Hyde, Chancel
lor ; Nicolas and Culpeper, Secretars ; Reinolds, Calamy, Manton, Baxter,
chaplaines ; the countrey militia put in hands confident ; the King, Duke of
York, Gloucefler, Ormont, the mofl of the courtiers, made Colonells of the
(landing regiments, the Colonels willingly ceding to be Lieutenants. But
quickly the Parliament fell on a better way, with all pofiible fpeed to di(band
all forces by fea and land. For this end, befyde the maintenance and excyfe,
a pole -money was appointed to defray arriers ; great foumes came in, and a
cheerful eneugh di(banding was made ; fo that before this, except a few gari-
fons, and a very few horfe and foot, are all peaceably di(banded in the three
Kingdomes : a mightie, unexpected work.
The King, in wifdome, moderation, pietie, and grave carriage, giving hudge
fatiffa6lion to all ; the Parliament reftored him the power of the militia, his
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negative voice, the determination of all ecclefiaftick differences, and whatever
he could have wifhed ; took a courfe for buying back his revenues, and much
augmenting them. He endeavoured carefully to relieve all that had been
fufferers for him or his Father. He prefled the Houfes to hafte the bill of in-
demnitie. They excepted a very few from it ; fcarce a dozen execute : in which
the people had much more fatiffac~lion than he ; for he could have been induced
to have pardoned all ; but it was the juftice of God that brought Peters, Har-
rifon, and others to a fhamefull death ; to hing up the bones of Oliver, Brad-
ihaw, Ireton, Pride, on the gibbet at Tiburne ; to difgrace the two Goodwins,
blind Milton, Owen, Sterrie, Lockier, and others of that maleficent crew.
The mod of our Nobles, with very many of our Gentrie, run up to
Whitehall : all were made welcome. Old places were reftored to Crawfurd,
Caffillis, and others. No wonder the Chancellor's and Secretar's place were
taken from Loudoun and Lothian, and given to Glencairne and Lauderdaill ;
yet with recompence enough to them both, whom fome thought deferved
little. Loudoun had his pennon of a thoufand pound5, and gift of annuities
continued ; Lothian got his fecond fon Director of the Chancelrie, which
Sir John Scot6 was thought not to deferve. Montrofe's Marquifat was con
firmed ; the cuftomes of Glafgow given to him till he was payed of a great
foume ; Argyle ordained to refound him a great foume. Selkirk made Duke
Hamilton, and out of the cuftomes of Leith twenty thoufand pound fterling
afligned. Marfhall got ten thoufand pound fterling of the cuftomes of
Aberdeen. Dudup, Earle of Dundee, a foume out of the cuftomes of Dun
dee. The King gave among them all he had in Scotland, and much more.
For Judicatories, he appointed the Committee of Eftates of the year 16[50]
to fitt down, and the Parliament, December 12th. For a Commifiioner, by
our Nobles confent, leaft ftrife ihould be for it, the Lord Middletone, Earle
of Fettercairne, was nominat; who was not very acceptable to many; efpecial-
lie not keeping the day of the Parliament, but caufeing it to be adjourned to
Januar ; yet when he is come doune, his wifdome, fobrietie, and moderation,
5 In the MS. it is " 10,000 p.:" but see vol. i. p. 390. In Scotish money it would be £12,000.
6 Sir John Scott of Scotstarvet, Director of the Chancery, pathetically laments that, te albeit
he was possessor of the said place of Chancery above forty years, and doer of great services to the
King and Country, yet by the power and malice of his enemies, he has been at last thrust out of
the said places in his old age, and likeways fined in £500 sterling, and one [Sir William Ker]
altogether unskilled placed to be Director." (Staggering State of Scots Statesmen, p. 163.)
444 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1661.
hes been fuch as makes him better beloved, and reputed as fitt for that great
charge as any other we could have gotten. So fair it went every where
weel, to the great joy of all.
But as nothing is perfectly blefTed on earth, fome water was quickly poured
in the wine of many ; I am fure in mine, as I exprefled it in a (harp and free
letter to Lauderdaill. Bifliops and Liturgies were every where fett up in
England and Ireland without contradiction : our League and Covenant, by
a number of printed pamphlets, was torn to peeces. This was the more
grievous, that at the beginning it appeared moil eafie to have been remeed-
ed : his Gracious Majeftie was ready to have been abfolutely advyfed by
his Parliament ; the leading men there were avowed Covenanters and Pref-
byterians : Lauderdaill and Mr. Sharp, both at Breda and London, had very
much of the King's ear ; Monck was for us in that at the beginning firm
enough ; the Queen and her partie was on our fyde : the Epifcopall men
were fundrie of them as evill as before ; Bramble,7 Wran, Helein, Thorndik,
Coofins, Sincerfe, Hammond, Peirce, none of the beft or mod orthodox ;
Jukfon and Duppa, fmallie learned ; Sheldon, Morley, able indeed, and very
wife men ; but the overturning of all the Reformation of England, without a
contrare petition, to me was ftrange, and very grievous, and I fufpect we
know not yet the bottom of that myflerie. I wifh all our friends, Scots and
EnglHh, have been honeft and faithfull : fure they have not been fo prudent
and mduftrious as, I think, they mould have been. However, as this was the
original of all our late trouble, I think it will not faill in time to procure
new commotions, if petitions and remonftrancies doe not prevent them.
It's like the generall joy for the King's happy returne, and the generall
abhorrence of our late confufions and miferies, together with fear lead any
juftling, even by petitions, might give occafion to thefe who were watching
for it to make fome new commotions, made our friends eafie to be prevailed
with not to oppofe the King's defires ; efpeciallie the King promifing, by con-
ferrence with the chief Prelbyterians and Epifcopalls, to doe his endeavour
for their agreeance ; as indeed he laboured much in this, and, by his declara
tion, did draw both fome nearer than they were ; but for little fatiffaftion to
either of the parties : the Epifcopall, not having all they wont, were difcon-
7 The names of the English Bishops are here somewhat incorrectly written by Baillie's
amanuensis, for Bramhall, Wren, Heylin, Cosins, Sydserf, Hammond, Pearce, Juxon. &c.
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 445
tent ; the Prefbyterians fand the other had gotten too much, and more than
in confcience they could ever aflent to ; yet, for love to the King, they were
filent, when all the Bifhops were folemnly inftalled, and the Liturgie every
where reftored, clear contrare to our Covenant, and A6ls of the Englifh Par
liament fince 1641. Chancellor Hyde was thought the great a6lor in all this
Epifcopall bufinefs, while a few hour's treaty, or but a petition from the Houfes,
Generall, and Citie, fent with the Commiffioners to Breda, might eafilie
have freed us, for the great good of the land, of all thefe vexations.
It was a hudge grief alfo to us, and more to the King, that the Lord was
pleafed to remove that moft excellent and exceedingly hopefull Prince the
Duke of Gloucefter, in a few dayes ficknefs of the maifles or fmall poxes ;
and what came on the back of it, the noife of the Duke of York's clandef-
tine marriage with the Chancellor's daughter,8 was to the King and all his
loving people a very great grief; efpeciallie that third heavieft ftroke follow
ing, the death of that moft excellent PrincefTe,9 and exceedinglie beloved both
of the King and all his fubjects. I wifli what fome fpeak of her [Mother's]
clandeftine marriage with Harie German's [Jermyn's] brother's fon may be
found to be a moft falfe lie. However, thefe moft fad accidents did temper
our exceeding great and juft joy. Alfo there were fome feares of the fecla-
rian partie's plots ; but, blelTed be God, they are come to nought : that bloodie
mad fpirit of Munfter lodges in many of them. The Chancellor's fpeech,
clofeing the Parliament, (hew their defigne, on the 25th of December, to have
fired the citie, feafed on Whitehall, the King, York, Albemarle, and others.
Overtoun, Ludlow, White, and many are taken for this : yet many did not be
lieve it. But fomething of it did acluallie appear fince ; for while the King is
convoying his Mother to Portfmouth, fome of thefe fanaticks did rife two di-
verfe times in the night ; but were eafily, by the mayor of the citie alone, com-
pefcit, without any confiderable blood, bleffed be God ; for fure it is, thatpartie
is yet too ftrong ; but likelie their own madnefs will (hortly annihilate them.
The Biftiop of London did baptize Charles the Duke of Cambridge at
Worfter houfe ; the Lady Ormont was godmother. The Queen entertained
that night the Dutchefs of York, at her table ; and to-morrow the King
8 Anne, daughter of Sir Edward Hyde, Lord Chancellor of England, better known by
his title as Earl of Clarendon.
9 Mary, Princess of Orange, sister of Charles the Second, died 24th December J660.
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entertained her and her hufband, his brother, at his table. The Queen
went immediately with her daughter towards France, to agent her marriage
with Monfieur Duke of Anjou ; albeit fome thinks difcontent at her fon's
marriage did further her journey.
For us in Scotland, thus things have went among us. After Monck's
march, fome ftickling there was in the weft to have had meetings in
Ihyres for new Commiflioners. They lyked not Glencairne's imployment ;
they fpoke of Lauderdaill and Crawfurd ; but their defigne was, Lockart and
the Remonftrators intereft. My Lord Lie, Sir John Cheiflie, Sir George
Maxwell, my Lord Stairs, Mr. Gillefpie, and others, were faid to be the con
trivers. They laboured to have had Selkirk and Caflilis with them, but this
was foon cruftied by Monck and Morgan ; for they were informed of their in
clination to Lambert more than to them. When the Committee of our Eftates,
to our great joy, had (it downe in our Parliament Houfe, to prepare matters
for our Parliament, Mr. James Guthrie having mett before at Edinburgh,
and elfewhere, with diverfe of his partie, did tryft it fo, as he and they met in
Robert Simpfon's houfe, the next door almoft to the meeting of Eftates, and did
draw up a petition to the King1, making many profeflions of their joy for his
returne, but withall remembering him of his Covenant to fupprefle Bifhops and
Ceremonies in England, and to beware to put the government of Scotland into
the hands of Malignants. They alfo writt letters to Mr. P. Gillefpie, and the
chief of their partie in the weft, to meet them at Glafgow the next week, with
fo many as they could bring with them. The Committee hearing of this, im
mediately fent fome of their number to them, feafed on their papers, brought
them before their court. They were forie, at their firft doune-fitting, to have
to doe with minifters ; but Mr. Guthrie's reftlefs and proud infolence did irri-
tat, efpeciallie when all their number, Mailers R. Traill, John Stirling, Alex.
Moncreif, John Semple, Mr. John Murray, Mr. Gilbert Hall, and fundry
others, did abfolutely refufe to acknowledge any fault. Surely they had no
warrand to meet, being no Kirk judicatorie, and their ill band of Remonftrance
could give them no priviledge in a bodie to admonifh the King, how to
govern England, and tax him for making malignants members of judicatories.
Upon their obftinacie, all were fent to the Caftle. At once Mr. Thomas
1 This intended Supplication is printed by Wodrow, (App. vol. i. no 2). Guthrie and the
rest of the subscribers were apprehended on the 23d August 1 660.
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Ramfay went ftark mad : he was allwayes but a weak foolifli thing. Sundry
of them fell fick, and were fent to their own houfes, as at lad all were fent to
their lodgings in Edinburgh. Mr. James Guthrie was confined to the tol-
booth of Dundee, and Mr. Gfillefpie] to the caftle of Stirling ; Mr. James
Simpfon to the tolbooth of Edinburgh ; as alfo Mr. John Dickfon, minifter
at Rutherglen, for many odious fpeeches in pulpit againft the ftatefmen.
Mr. James Nafmith alfo, for fpeeches in pulpit, was confined to his chamber
in Edinburgh. But above all, Mr. Rutherfoord was difgraced ; his book,
Lex Rex? burnt by the hand of the hangman at the crofle of Edinburgh
and St. Andrews ; himfelf confined to his chamber, his ftipend fequeftrat,
and himfelf cited before the Parliament. Mr. Andrew Cant, preaching
againft Mr. Rutherfoord's hard ufage, was accufed before the magiftrates
of treafon. He dimitted his miniftrie, and came to his fon at Libberton,
where both live very quietlie : The Commiffioner ufed the old man very
courteouflie, and likelie will protect him from trouble. Sir James Stewart
and Sir John Cheiflie were fent prifoners to the Caftle, where yet they
abide. Wariftoun fled, whereupon he was declared fugitive, and all his places
void : his poor Ladie could not obtain to him a paffe from the King to live
in banifhment ; fo he lurks day lie in fear of his life. Argyle, by his fon
Lome's letter, being advertifed that the King took kindlie with all men,
ventured to goe to London ; but in the chamber of prefence, before he faw
the King, a warrand under the King's hand meets him to be caried to the
Tower clofe prifoner: yet when his Ladie came up fhe got free acceffe to him;
but could not obtaine to him a hearing before the King. Swinton, who,
either by a ftrange hypocrifie or tentation, had turned Quaker, was taken at
London, and fent to Newgate. Argyle and he were fent to the Parliament
by fea in one fhip. By a great guard of citizens both were carried on foot,
and Swinton difcovered, through all the ftreets of Edinburgh, Argyle to the
Caftle, and Swinton to the tolbooth clofe prifoners. Captaine Govan was
caft in the tolbooth for a long tyme in irons ; Jafray of Aberdeen, Ofburne
the Quaker, were likewife put in the tolbooth ; the chief of the Remon-
ftrators were cited, and made to fubfcribe their renunceing of the Remon-
ftrance, and appearance before the Parliament, and fomething elfe whereat
2 " Lex, Rex: the Law and the Prince; a Dispute for the just Prerogative of King and
People, &c." Lond. 1644, 4to.
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they Rumbled at the beginning ; but at once Greinheid, Sir G. Maxwell,
Mr. John Harper, and others, fubfcryved all. Our folks, John Graham
and Mr. John Spreule, lay long in the tolbooth of Edinburgh for refuting ;
but at laft they, John Johnfton, and Thomas Paterfon, fubfcryved it. James
Porter, our catholick clerk, was confined to his houfe, and referred to our
magiftrates, to be difpofed on as they pleafed. That whole partie was clean
run downe to the contentment of the mod ; for they have been ill inftruments
of irreconcileable divifion for twelve years, both in Kirk and Kingdome. For
myfelf, I rejoyced not at the hurt of any of them ; but wiflied all of them
might have been fpared, on their'good behaviour in time to come, which now
it's lyke will be eafilie obtained, though before it was defperate. The pitie
and favour of many is turning towards them, by the infolent behaviour of
fome, who are fufpecled may make a new party among us. Our State is
very averfe to hear of our League and Covenant. Many of our people are
hankering after Bifhops, having forgot the evill they have done, and the
nature of their office. An exceeding great profanitie, and contempt both of
the miniftrie and religion itfelf, is every where prevalent : a young fry of
minifters in Lothian, and Fife, and elfewhere, looks as if they intended fome
change, without any fear or reverence to the elder minifters, who latelie put
them in their places. The wifeft and bed are yet quiet till they fee whether
thefe things will goe. The goodnefs of the King himfelf is the only hope we
have to get any thing going right.
For our private matters in the Colledge, this twelvemoneth we have been at
peace, our wanrefl3 being quieted. He fent his wife to London, to offer all fer-
vice to the King, as Sinclair4 faid to Glencairne, and he to Mr. Sharp, who writ
it to Mr. Douglafs, he offered to doe his endeavours for Epifcopacie, (though
this he denyes.) However, fhe got no accede nor countenance, only occafioned
the King to remember me, and name me to his place. Lauderdaill writ to me,
that it ftuck only at a forme of prefentation, which he defired Mr. James
Sharp, when he came home to fend up to him. The interveening of other
things maks it Hick yet there ; for myfelf, I never moved in it, direc~lly nor
indirectly, nor purpofes to doe. Ten yeares agoe I might have had it with
the likeing of all who had intereft ; but I fetled it on good Mr. Robert Ramfay,
3 Wanrest, or cause of inquietude, alluding to Mr. Patrick Gillespie.
* John sixth Lord Sinclair. He was related I believe, to Gillespie by marriage.
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 449
by an Act of the Generall Aflembly. Since his death, Mr. G[ijlefpie] in
truded himfelf by the Englifh power. At his coming we were large one
thoufand pound flerling to the fore ; this day we will be as much in debt,
and a number of confufed bufiinefles in our hands, which few who know will
be very willing to undertake ; yet, on the report of my refufall, fundry are
bufie feeking it by their friends, far and near. Many of my friends deale
w'th me to take it : I have promifed, when the prefentation comes, to ad-
vyfe ; before, I can neither accept nor refufe.
Your Sifter, I waited on her to her death, which was very peaceable and
gracious as yow could have wifhed. Your Nephew is well, as yow may
fee in his laft two to me : for the time there is no occafion of calling him
hither, nor doe I think he defires it. For that which Voetius wrote to me
concerning Mr. W. Bowie's widow, there was nothing poffible to be done,
nor will be yet for fome tyme, till there be law among us ; which, to the great
prejudice of many, is not yet to be in hafle. Mr. Patrick Bell's letter to her-
felf will tell her and him the true caufe of it. His diligence, indeed, hes fe-
cured the. thing, whilk elfe would have perifhed ; for Kilpatrickis but a tricker
and bankrupt. As for his Queftions, I ufed all diligence to have had a quick
and full anfwer to them, and was once fair to have gotten it from St. Andrewes,
Aberdeene, and Edinburgh ; yet fince, they have changed, and thinks fit
no to medle in that matter, though to my conception all of them be in his
mind. For myfelf, I honour him5 above any divine now living, and thinks
him the moft orthodox, profitable, and deferving man we have, and would be
glad to doe whatever is in my power for his pleafure. My own anfwer
I quickly drew it, and fent it to Edinburgh, to be commuriicat to St.
Andrewes and Aberdeen, who I think did like it, but were to draw an
anfwer in common for us all, by Mr. Wood's hand ; whereof I was well con
tent ; but iince that now is refufed, I have fent my own here as yow fee
it 7 Clofe my letter and fend it to Utrecht.
I have now my piece6 ready for the prefTe : becaufe it's in Latine, and
long, I will not get it printed here. I debate fundry queftions modeftly, but
roundly, with Doctor Waltoun, and fundrie of the chief Epifcopall men ; fo
I defpair to get it printed at London. Moft of my matter is new and
pleafant. I have fent you the Summa, to be communicat to whom ye
5 Gisbertus Voetius. 6 Rob. Baillii Opus Historicum et Chronologicuro.
VOL. III. 3 L
450 LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 1661.
will : I hope yow may get it printed there freely. If yow advyfe, I (hall
fend the book with the next : keep thir fheets clean, for they mud be put
in the book, either at the beginning or end. John now tells me, that the
herring he undertook to me to fend to your kind wife are not fent, on this
and that excufe, whereof I am not content. I have no forgot your debt, but
want of law puts mod men here to a (land. My heartie fervice to your good
and kind wife, and all your fweet children.
Our information of forraigne affairs is this, which yow who dwell nearer
the fun and the world can correct. My heart was very fad for the King of
Sueden's death, though mod here were glad of it. I hoped fuch a victorious
valiant Prince was like to be fitted for putting the world in a new better
mould ; but God hath otherwayes appointed. That generall confpiracie againft
him, procured by your State, with the French and Englifh deferting of him,
lies broken his heart ; though his licknefs feems to have come from his too
fore labours at the fiege of Copenhagen. It was his happinefs to die at
Gottenburie, February 15th, in his Parliament, before he had loft any of
his reputation, and to have his fon crouned, under the tutorie of his mother
and fome ftatefmen, whereof I think neither his brother Adolph, nor La Card
his good brother, are any. It is good that peace is made there, which during
Charles's (landing was not probable. I thought the Kingdom of Denmark
long before had been hereditarie, as weell as Sweden. It feems the peace hes
taken more from Denmark than any other ; however, it puts all that north
countrey to quietnefs, bleffed be God for it. What means the foolifh Muf-
coviters, after fo manie difafters, to trouble Pole ? Shall that inceftuous un-
happie Queen ftill be fcorning the world with the offers of the Crown of Pole
to whom (he pleafes ? Her laft dealing in France, that Anguen might marry
her fifter, Edward of Palatine's wife's daughter, is like a trick of Mazarin to
get Conde and his fon out of France, at leift to divert their fanlies for the
time, with that peak, from plotting againft him. Chriftina grows in follie, in
demanding of the Parliament at Stokholm the reftitution of her crowne, her
good behaviour hes fo weell deferved. I fear a prifon lhall be her hinder
end ; whether in Sweden, or fome monafterie in Italic, time will try : it feems
none takes notice of her now wherever (he goes. Ragotfi's calamitie hes
grieved us fore ; that gallant brave Prince Ihould not have been left to the
Turkifh furie : I fear his dates mall turne Turkifh or Auftrian. Still we
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marvell what Mazarin can mean by his Spanifti peace, when Weft Flanders,
Catalonia, and Millain, were liklier to have been conqueifed by the French
than thefe many yeares. Conde is brought home to France : Portugall is
totallie deferted : What can the end of this be ? The people are nothing
eafed of their taxes ; the clergie complains as much of their oppreflion. The
Prince of Orange, too weell deferving of the houfe of France, fpoiled in his
minoritie, by treafon, of his patrimonie. The Venetians not affifted either by
France or Spaine, with any confiderable help, more in their peace than warre ;
but the Venetians put in a worfe cafe after their help than before. How
ever, guide as they will, blefled be God for the peace of the Kirks abroad,
and the happy reftauration of our King, when all the world abroad abfolutlie,
and at home alfo, weell near, had deferted him. At laft I break off.
Your Coufin,
January 31ft 1661. R. B.
[REVERENDISSIMO CLARISSIMOQUE vino D. GISBERTO VOETIO.]
REVERENDISSIME FRATER,
TUAS ad me dudum accepi, etfi aliquot menfibus poftquam a te fcriptae
fuerunt ; alteras in gratiam viduae concivis mei Walteri Bowie, alteras de
duabus quseftionibus a Facultate veftra Theologica nobis propofitis. Quod
praeter meum morem refponfum tamdiu dilatum eft, culpa faltem primaria
mea non fuit. In viduae caufa nihil fere a triennio potuit peragi ; nam leges
apud nos a longo jam tempore filuerunt, et adhuc filent, adeo ut cum nullo
debitore ob quod vis ses alienum alicujus momenti lege potuerit aut adhuc
poffit agi ; prseterquam quod viduae debitor lapfus fit bonis, nee, fi leges aperi-
rentur, folvendo fuiflet, nifi Patricii Beli, de quo fcribis, hominis honeftiffimi,
et fingulari D. Bowio tarn vivo quam mortuo amici, charitate ac diligentia re-
medium, fpero efficax et tempeftivum, fuiflet adhibitum, de quo ipfe epiftola
hac inclufa viduae rationem reddit. Aufim fpondere veram, tarn a meipfo
quam D. Belo, amicitiam viduae in quocunque noftra opera poterit illi effe
utilis.
Quod ad alteras de quseftionibus, ut primum venerunt in manus meas,
in paucis diebus refponfum, quod jam mitto, exaravi, et ad Edinburgenfes
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tranfmifi, ut cum Andreapolitanis et Abredonenfibus communicaretur, om-
nefque ad maturum, amicum, et plenum refponfum hortatus fum. Ipfis in-
ftitutum fuit commune noftrum omnium nomine fcriptum concinnafle, quod
cum aliquot menfibus expedlaflem, tandem comperi, ex quorundam tam apud
V08 quam nos cafuum interventu, confilium eos mutafle. Ne autem ego
etiam tibi deeflem, quern profiteer pod breve illud quod tecum habui Ultra-
jecti colloquium, et perlecta tua varia fcripta (omitto multa amiciflima tua erga
me officia) tulifle me Temper et ferre in oculis animoque, ut theologorum qui
hodie in ecclefia Reformata vivunt vere primarium pietate, eruditione, dili-
gentia, zelo, et omni quae theologum ornat virtute ; ne, inquam, ego pro mea
parte diutius tibi deeflem, et fi fero, tandem tamen, communico fententiam
meam quam puto dodlrinae et praxi ecclefiae Scoticanae conformem, tuaeque ac
collegarum tuorum menti confonam. Rerum noftrarum flatum, imprimis a
feliciflimo Regis reditu, et diu defiderata feclariorum ufurpantium ruina, fcripfi,
ut foleo, fufe D. Spangio. In praefentia multa nobis funt yXyatunxga, quse
fperamus mirabiliter nobis benignum Deum fuo tempore commutaturum in
dulciora, prout infinita ipfius fapientia videbit fuum honorem noflrumque com-
modum requirere. Ipfe te tuofque collegas, omnefque reformatarum ec-
•clefiarum veros do6lores confervet a malo, et afpiret omnibus omnium al-
boribus. Sic precatur tui ftudioflimus et honorantiflimus Frater,
R. BAL^EUS.
Glafguse, Cal. Feb. 1661.
To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND NOBLE LORD THE EARLE OF GLENCAIRNE,
LORD HIGH CHANCELLOR OF SCOTLAND.
MY LORD,
I KNOW it's unfit to divert your Lordfhip by long letters. Your Lordlhip
is now, by your goodnefs and all our defires, become the head of our Houfe.7
When I was with your Lordfhip I (hew our extraordinarie neceflitie ; your
Lordfhip was alfe willing as we could defire to help us to your power. We
were, by the good Englifti powers, (who, blefled be God, are now annihilat,)
7 William, Earl of Glencairn, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, was elected Chancellor of the
University of Glasgow, 25th October 1660.
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poffeffed in the vacant ftipends about us. This was the chief ground where
upon Mr. Gillefpie ventured to caft us in fo great debt. The Parliament,
we hear, hes for feven yeares decerned all vacant ftipends to belong to the
King, to be diftribut unto the minifters who hes fuffered for their loyaltie
to him and his Royall Father. I am fure our Houfe hes fuffered more by
the adminiflration of one intrudit upon us by the Englifh violence, than all
the minifters I know in thir bounds have done : If your Lordlhip can ob
tain to us a part of thefe vacancies, to wit, thefe we had before of the Chap
ter of Glafgow, and thefe of Galloway we have enteres in, of what is bygane
undifpofed of, and for the feven yeares to come, it were a work of great
charitie, and, I hope, prejudiciall to no man. Alfo, when Mr. Gillefpie
comes before you, it feemes reafonable that he mould be ordained to find
caution to make count with the Colledge ; and what he hes taken to himfelf
more than was due, at the vifitors of Parliament's light, he fhould be obliedg-
ed to refound it : that Vifitation we referre it wholly to your Lordfhip's
difcretion. Bedlay and Mr. Sharp will conferre with your Lordmip about
it at your leafure. The Lord blefle your Lordfhip and your whole familie.
Your Lordfhip's fervant,
Glafgow, February 4th 1661. R. BAILIE.
Had I been weell I would have come alongs to have agented thefe things
with your Lordfhip myfelf.
FOR HIS REVEREND BROTHER MR. JAMES SHARP, MINISTER
AT CRAILL.
JAMES,
I HOPE yow got my laft of thanks for your very kind and refreflifull one
to me ; Mr. Hamiltone writes he fent it over to yow. I would not have
famed yow at this tyme, had it not been the occafion yow will read in the
inclofed; yow will be pleafed to read, clofe, and deliver it, yea, for my
caufe, yow muft agent it. I writ to yow I had no face to come abroad till
yow got the returne yow promifed from Lauderdaill ; that which I moft de-
fire is a returne of mine, which yow fent him, for his Majeftie's hand to pay
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his Father's debt with fome increafe: two hundred pound in [L6]33, now in
[I6]6l, will excrefce to a great foume : we have great need of it ; for we are
turned the verieft divers [dyvours] I know. Mr. Gillefpie fand us in twenty
thoufand merks to the fore, he leaves us large in twenty thoufand raerks
behind ; as the Vifitors will fee in our counts : he hes left us work now ne-
ceflarly to be perfited, which ten thoufand pound will not doe. James, if we
get yow no a joynt beggar with us, we are undone. Good James, what (hall
I doe with the worme, it hes imprifoned me, and put me from all fervice
this while : when I grow better, yow will have me to be the old man.
Your very loving Brother and fervant,
February 1661. R. B.
James, have yow no fo much power as to flay the railing on us of that
very malicious Diurnaller ? If the Parliament would put on him the penaltie
of my worme, I think it would quickly temper his very uncivill pen.
UNTO THE HONOURABLE THE ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT, WE THE UNI-
VERSITIE OF GLASGOW HUMBLIE MEAN AND SHOW,
THAT whereas, through the occafion of Dr. Strang, a moil loyall divine, his
removeall from his place, and Mr. Gillefpie's intrufion therein by the Englifh
Ufurpers, we are brought to great povertie and debt, fo that this year we have
been neceffitate thus to give over our table, and no Mailer within the houfe
hes gotten any part of their flipends ; yea, the large half of our lad year's
table and flipend lyes yet unpayed ; befide a neceflitie is laid upon us to per
fect our farr advanced building, which ten thoufand pound will not accom-
plifh : We doe humbly fupplicat your Lordfhips that our fuffering condi
tion may be confidered, and recommended to the Honourable Lords of
Councell, to be redreffed out of fome part of the vacant flipends in our
bounds, or what other way their Lordfhips lhall find expedient. So mall
your humble Supplicants and Servants allways pray for your Lordfhips
profperitie and happinefs.
In name of the Univerntie of Glafgow, their Commiffioner,
R. BAILLIE.
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ADDRESS BY PRINCIPAL BAILLIE TO THE COMMISSIONER."
MY LORD,
I AM fent to your Grace from our Univerfitie, in all humble dutie, to con
gratulate your Grace's high employment, and to declare their very heartie
wifhes that, as yow have begun and hitherto continued, fo yow may go on to
the end, to manage this great truft, with that your wifdom, moderation, and
goodnefs, which has given good fatiffaction to all who have with any confi-
deration and judgment looked upon it, As for us of that Seminarie, it is
our fixed purpofe, by the grace of God, not only to remaine mod loyall to
wards his Royall Majeflie, but alfo to be readilie obedient to all your Grace's
commandments, hoping that, by your Grace's favour and mediation, we mall
enjoy thefe priviledges which, from our firft erection to this day, his Majeftie
and his blefled progenitors has of their Royall bountie been pleafed to confer
upon us, and from time to time to confirm and encreafe. I mail fay no more
for the time, but pray God to blefTe your Grace with the continuance of his
Spirit upon yow, for the refrefhing of our languishing countrey after many
fore diftrefles ; for fully quieting of our Church from the trembling fears of
diverfe, (I hope moft needlefs,) lince we have the word of the beft, and,
without all peradventure, moft honeft Prince in the world, for fecureing our
Church from all innovation ; alfo for the cherifhing and advancement of
pietie, vertue, and learning, the fountains of loyaltie in all our feminaries,
efpecially that of Glafgow, on which, fince its firft being, all our Soveraigns
and their reprefentatives have looked with as becoming an afpect, and
beftowed as fenfible marks of their favour, as upon any other Univerfitie
in the whole Kingdome.
FOR MR. JAMES ROBERTOUN [OF BEDLAY.]
SIR,
As I told you, I found my Lord Chancellor very kind and courteous to
8 John Earl of Midelleton, Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland.
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me in all things. For our Vifitation, I left it wholly on his Lordfhip,9 with
your advyfe. I heard of a lift, I think drawn by Provoft Bell and Mr. John
Young's advyce ; the perfons were all honourable, and above exception : Duke
Hamilton, Marquis of Montrofe, Earl of Eglinton, Earl of Wigton ; but what
needs my Lord Cochrane? Gentlemen, Kilfyth, LuflTe, Kilmahew, young
Houfton ; but what have we to do with Kier and Garden, who are at odds with
us, and lately, as the Chancellor knows, before the Committee of Eftates have
fpoken their pleafure of us ? What have we to doe with the Provoft of
Lithgow and Stirling, mere ftrangers ? with Mr. James Ramfay, and Mr.
Matthias Simpfon, and Mr. Edward Wright ? Thefe are put on us for a
trick, I know, and fhall tell you at meeting. Why mould the Provoft and
Baillie of Glafgow, and John Bell, the auditors of our compts, and for the
time interefted in our pleys, be fet over us ? May no the Provofts of Aire,
Irvine, Dumbartane, ferve for burgefles ? Mr. Gabriel Cunninghame of
Miniabrock, Mr. Matthew Ramfay, Mr. James Fergufhill, Mr. William
Eccles, are good ; but why mould Mr. Robert Wallace, Mr. Patrick Colvill,
Mr. William Fullertoun, Mr. David Elphinfton be omitted ? Why mould
Craigends, Haiflet, Cunninghamhead, and fuch be forgot ? Thir things to
yourfelf alone. It is by your advyce mainly I have embraced this place ;
the Vifitation may doe us great harm, and me difcouragement, if no weell
managed. Albeit the condition of the fooles of Aberdeen has procured one ;
yet both St. Andrewes and Edinburgh has declined it, and I with we had
none at this time ; it will caft out men for fmall faults, and put far worfe in
their place ; it will be fo compofed as to pafs over the moft guilty. I know,
if we muft have it, yow will doe your beft by the Chancellor to have it fo
right as may be. I (hall fay no more for the time. The Lord be with yow.
Your Coufin,
Monday, Mart. R. BAILLIE.
So far as I can learne by Patrick Hamilton, your fone, and his wife, and
all in Bedlay, are weell.
If we needs muft have a Vifitation, fee it containe no power to plant places
but according to the fettled order of our Houfe.
9 The Earl of Glencairn, as Chancellor of the University. Vide supra, p. 452.
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 457
FOR MY LORD LAUDERDAILL.
MY LORD,
THAT prefentation ye fent me, with a kind letter, came to my hands long
agoe, by the care and kindnefle of Mr. Sharp, as I write to your friend Mr.
Drummond. What in his letter I promifed, now when I have by my friends
advyce, after fome reluctation, accepted of it, I fend up to your Lordfhip
very heartie thanks for this addition to all your former favours, and withall
an earneft and humble defire that your Lordfliip would be pleafed, at your
conveniencie, to offer in my poor name to his Majeftie (whom the Lord ever
preferve and blefTe) my moft humble duetie for his kind remembrance of
me in that particular. It does not indeed add any thing to my heart's
affection towards his Majeftie, which ever I have found in my breaft fince
my fecond meeting with him, by your addrefTe, in the Hague. But it is, and
(hall be one of my remembrancers, to walk in that place in my great weaknefs
according to his Majeftie's expectation, as one minding duetie to God, to
his Majeftie, and thofe over whom, how unworthie foever, he has been
pleafed to fet me an overfeer. And for your Lordfhip I have no words to
change with yow ; vow know me weell enough. It's my heart's defire oft-,
times to God to preferve yow from many, many fnares are dailie near yow.
I will write nothing of that I have to fay, if God ever grant me a meeting
with yow. Only what I wrote once or twice to yow before of the great ne-
ceffitie and debt which Mr. Gillefpie's gloriofitie and vaft fpending has put
our poor Houfe into, and our expectation of fome remead of it by his Ma
jeftie's warrand to the Thefaurer to pay us that two hundred pound which
his blefTed Father fubfcribed to Dr. Strang in the year 1633. To this yow
think not fit to anfwer one word. I fhall fay no more to this ; but I know
much more of his Majeftie's goods has gone, and will goe farr worfe wayes.
If I may by a line from your Lordfhip know of the receipt heirof, it will be
a fuperaddition to your old kindnefs. However, I reft what long I have
been,
Your Lordfhip' s affectionat friend and fervant,
Glafgow, Aprile 10th 1661, R. B.
VOL. Ill, 3 M
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FOR MR. JAMES SHARP.
•
JAMES,
WHAT I promifed to Mr. Drummond I now performe. Yow fee what I
write to the Secretar ;" I pray yow let it go under your cover. Yow will
clofe it, and I hope affift me in my petition. That I beg more quietlie than I
have caufe, I have defired Mr. John Young, the bearer, to let yow read (and
hear him vcrifie it all,) what havock he [Gillefpie] has made of our goods, and
yet has the modeftie to petition the Parliament for more off us whom he has
wracked : I hope fuch impudence will not be heard.
The mater of our changes lye near my heart : I think they will haften
my death ; yet I make no noyfe about them. The Lord blefs yow and
direct yow in your eminent Ration.
Your much oblidged friend to ferve yow,
. Aprile 13th 1661. R. B.
FOR MY LORD LAUDERDAILL.
MY LORD,
HAVING the occafion of this bearer, who promifes to me affuredlie to de
liver to yow in hand or burn it, I tell yow that my heart is broken with
grief, and that the burdein of the public!: I find it weightie and haftening
me to my grave. My prayers dailie, when my heart is loofed, are for the
King and yow, for his bleffing on yow both. I have no private defires nor
fears ; but I think we are very ill-guided, and very needleflie fo. What
needed yow doe that diflervice to the King, which all of yow cannot re-
compence, to grieve the hearts of all your gracious friends in Scotland to
whom the King was, is, and will be, I hope, after God, mod dear, with pull
ing downe all our Laws at once which concerned our Church fince 1633 ?7
8 The Earl of Lauderdale, Secretary of State for Scotland.
7 The Rescissory Act, on the 28th March 1661, entitled, " Act rescinding and annul ling the
pretendit Parliaments in the years 1640, 1641, &c." viz. to 1648 inclusive. (Acta Parl. vol. vii.
p. 86.) There was no Parliament held between 1633 and 1640 ; and the Acts of Parliament
and Committees for the year 1649 had been previously annulled, on the 9th February, (ib. p. 30.)
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 459
Was this good advyce, or will this thryve ? Is it wifdome to bring back
upon us the Canterburian tymes ? The fame deiignes, the fame practifes,
will they not at laft bring on the fame horrible effects, whatever fools
dreame ? That old maxime of the State of England is wife and good, that
the King can doe no fault, but the higheft minifters of State ought, in all
reafon to anfwer on their higheft pain for all mifcarriages. It was one of
King James's wifeft praetifes to permitt his greateft favourites to fink, before
that, by protecting them, the grief of his people mould fall on his back : ye
have feen the contrare principle deftructive, and it will ftill be fo.
My Lord, ye are the Nobleman of the world I efteem moft and love
beft. I think I may fay and write to yow what I like. If yow have
gone with your heart to forfake your Covenant, to countenance the in-
troduftion of Bifhops and Books, and (lengthening the King by your
advyce in thefe things, I thinke yow a prime tranfgrefibr, and lyable
among the firft to anfwer to God for that great fin, and opening a door,
which in hafte will not be clofed, for perfecution of a multitude of the
beft perfons and moft loyall fubjects that are in all the three dominions.
And if otherwayes your heart be where it was, as I hope indeed it is,
and that in your own way yow are doing what yow can for the truth of
God, (yet dailie I have my great feares for yow,) I think yow Hand in a
ticklifh place, and fome of thefe yow doe converfe with to be but men.
Remember your coulin Hamilton's poifoning before King James's eyes with
out fearch : my heart whiles trembles for yow. I will continue to pray for
yow doe what yow will. Mr. Guthrie, I ever oppofed his way, but fee that
none get the King perfuaded to take minifters heads : banifhment will be
worfefor them than death : how fhall they get bread if put without the bounds
of the Englifh language ? Send them to Orkney, or any other place where
they may preach and live : yow may obtain this, I think, if ye will.
For myfelf ye have buried me : yow have put me in a place which Mr.
Gillefpie got in wealth, but, through his waftrie, lies left in twenty thoufand
pund of debt, and in a neceffitie of expending twenty thoufand pund in per
fecting his glorious buildings. The Englifti furnifhed him liberally. For us
we have nothing but what we expect by your Lordfhip from his Majeftie's
benignitie. I am an ill beggar, yet I muft ftill craike to your Lordfhip while
I live ; which I think fhall not be long ; for your Prefbyterians at London,
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their mifguiding hes flaine me. I hear there are fome of my twenty year
old pamphlets lately reprinted at London ; this is totallie without my know
ledge, though indeed I remaine fully in the mind I wes then in, and which
I write to yow and ye received, though the firft copie perilhed. If yow or
Mr. Sharp, whom we trufted as our own foules, have fwerved towards Chan
cellor Hyde's principles, as now we fee many doe, yow have much to anfwer
for. This poffiblie may be my lad to yow, therefore I crave no pardon for
its length or impertinencie.
Your Lordfliip's old friend,
Glafgow, April 18th 1661. R. B.
[FoR MR. ROBERT BAILLIE, PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY AT GLASGOW.*]
REVEREND AND DEAR SIR,
YOUR'S to my Lord Lawderdaill, I have kept, till I prefent it from my
owji hand. I am commandit to take a new toyle, but I tell yow it is not in
order to a change of the Church. I eafily forfee what occafion of jealoufies
and falfe furmifes this my journey9 will give ; but whenever the Lord (hall
returne me, I truft my carriage, through the Lord's help, (hall be fuch as my
dear freind Mr. Baily will not condemne me. The reafons of my journey
cannot be communicated in this way, but yow may think they are prefling,
elfe I may be charged with exceeding folly at this time to enter upon the
ftage. Your [prayejrs I hope for me will not be wanting. I (hall be your
[Chancellor's monitor in reference to the papers concerning your [College,
fent] to me by Mr. John Young. All peace and mercy [be with you.
1] am,
Your's,
[Edinburgh, end of April] 1661. JA. SHARP.
8 From the original, Wodrow MSS. Fol. Vol. xlix, No. 3. It is not contained in Baillie's
own MS- The left hand corner with the date, is torn away, but it was no doubt written from
Edinburgh before the end of April.
9 Sharp on the 23d April, preached before the Parliament of Scotland, being the day of the
King's Coronation ; and on Monday the 29th of that month, along with the Earls of Glen-
cairne and Hothes, he set out from Edinburgh on the journey to London here mentioned.
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS.
FOB MR. HUTCHESON.
GEORGE,
YOUR'S came hither when I was out of towne. What ye delire me to
write to L[auderdaill] I have done it already, as my Teftament to him,
fully and fharply enough. There was no inlaik in that kind. It was to
obviat the C[hancellor], R[othes], and Shfarp], at their lad going up. I
think verily if that wicked change come it will haften me to my grave.
For the Oath, as I told fome of yow when I was laft there, I doubt your
way is not right : yow give occafion to them, that feek no better, to call
the chief of yow out of Edinburgh, that they may plant in your roome the
chief of the Epifcopalls. Remember prayer for the King, whereupon fome
of us were refolved to fuffer, but were drawne off by your example mod ;
In this ye will have fome, but, I fear, ere long very few followers. Yow are
all fatiffied if the word " Civill" were exprefflie added. In my own judge
ment, driving for this addition is but wrangling, which none of the anti-Epif-
copall divines in England ever offered, nor our folks did, fo farr as I knew,
ever move before. The Courfe of Conformitie flicks not on the oath of Supre-
macie. Not only the articles of the Confeffion of England, and Utter with
King James's printed thanks, expone that oath only of a Civill Supream power
circa Jacra, but all, both Popifli and Epifcopall divines, that are for Divine
right of Epifcopacie, contradict the Eraftians who will give the King any ec-
clefiaftick fupremacie. Did any prince ever plead that he was any more
than the civill magiflrate, though iviffxoKos ad omnia, ra 'i%u in ecclejia ?
They have declared in face of Parliament, above twenty tymes, that they un-
derftand no ecclefiaflick jurisdiction ; that they will not, or dare not, regifter
any fuch declaration ; and for our fatiffaction they will not alter a letter of
what is come down to them. This is their wilfulnefs, and poffiblie fomething
worie, but is not ground eneugh for our refufeall of the Oath without that
word. If they fhould build upon it a power to the King to bring in bifhops
and all ceremonies he lyked, and call us perjured if we did not on that Oath
take all, to myfelf it is an evidently wrong conclufion and foolifh. Thirty-fix
years agoe, when I entered Regent in our Colledge, I took both oaths of
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Supremacie and Alleadgeance, but was not hindred thereby to oppofe both
books and bifhops to my pith. Though yow get your word " Civill," they
would no lefle conclude all power they intend from it, than they doe without
it. I pray God dire6l yow there in this particular ; it may be an occafion
of fore trouble to many quickly.
Your's,
June 24th [1661.] R. B.
To THE RIGHT REVEREND AND RIGHT WORSHIPFULL THE BRETHREN OF
THE PRESBYTERIE OF KIRKCUBRIGHT, AND GENTLEMEN OF THE PARISH
OF TUNGLAND.1
RIGHT REVEREND AND RIGHT WORSHIPFULL,
YOUR'S of the 10th of Julie I received. That Mr. James Scot I know
no[t] ; he was not at ws : be aflured I (hall never countenance any fuch
man as ye defcrive. Aggree among yourfelf[es] : Let the Preflbyterie and
people ther, with the fatiffaction of my Lord Kenmure, aggree on a gra
cious able man; and for our part, we mail further his plantation in any
thing lyes in our power. Wifhing the Lord to be with you, I reft
Your friend and fervant,
Glafgow, the 15th Julie 1661. R. BAILLY.
We mail entreat yow to caufe deliver the tuo enclofed, by a fure hand,
with your firil conveniencie.
FOR MR. SPANG.
COUSIN,
1 HOPE ere now yow have receaved my book, and that ere long I mall
have your fenfe of the printing of it. Since my lad long letter, thus
our affaires went, fo farr as I underftand and remember. The Commif-
1 From the original, Wodrow MSS. 4to vol. xxix. No. 95. It relates to supplying a vacancy
in the parish of Tungland.
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fioner was met at Muffilburgh with a thoufand horfe. The Parliament fat
downe the beginning of January, on the Tuefday ; it rode2 in a very mag-
nifick way : few of the nobles were away. The Chancellor had fo guided it,
that the fhyres and burroughs fhould choice none but thefe that were abfolutely
for the King. Diverfe were cited to the Parliament, that they might not be
members. The Parliament's pulfe wes quickly felt ; for when Cafiillis moved,
that the election of a Prefident fhould be by vote of Parliament], the Com-
iniflioner obtained, that the Chancellor mould prelide by virtue of his office,
as before it wont to be. The Oath of Alleadgeance was next appointed to be
taken by all the members : there was infert in mids of it, the maine claufe of the
Oath of Supremacie: "That the King was Supreme Governour over all perfons
in all caufes." About this fundry did fcruple; yet when the Commiflioner and
Chancellor declared, that they intended thereby no Ecclefiaflick power to the
King in word, facraments, or discipline, but a fupreme civill power to put
churchmen in all things to their duetie : all were fatiffied, and took it in that
fenfe ; only Caflillis and Kilburnie refufed, becaufe they could not obtaine that
fenfe to be exprefled in write. Thereafter it was appointed, that all Members
of Parliament, all Officers of State, Lords of Seflion, and others in fhyres
and burroughs, fhould take it. The Miniflers of Edinburgh defired a word
to be added, which would have fatiffied all, " Civill Supream Governour," and
without that word, " Civill," they feemed peremptor to refule it. At this I was
very forie ; for 1 feared it fhould occafion trouble, and a new fchifme, without
great caufe, as I wrote to them when the Adi of Parliament came out, of
putting all intrants in the miniftrie to it ; and, as I hear, they will put all
Matters of Colledges to it. For my felf, I took the oath of Alleadgeance
and Supremacie thirty-four years agoe, when I entered Regent, and yet never
fcrupled it. My Lord Caflillis, without doubt the truely befl man of our
nobilitie, and as loyall as any, for this fcruple is as good as removed from
Parliament : and though he be fince at London, and hes favour and counte
nance eneugh of the King, as weell he deferves ; yet it is like to put him
from the exercife of all his places, of Juflice-Generall, Lord of Counfell,
2 At the opening of Parliament there usually was a grand cavalcade, consisting of the
Officers of State, the Members of Parliament, and other persons of distinction ; styled " The
Riding of the Parliament." An account of the procession on this occasion, Tuesday 1st Janu
ary 1661, is given in the earliest number of the " Mercurius Caledonius."
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Seflion, and Exchequer. The Sheriffdome of Air had elected Sir James
Dalrymple of Stairs, with the laird of Blair, the Chancellor's brother in-
law ; but their fcrupulofitie being feared, a new election was made of Kil-
burnie and Haiflead [Hazlehead]. Kilburnie, following Caffillis's vote, did
no more appear in Parliament.
Their next work was about the Prerogative : with very little or no diffi-
cultie, all was given to the King he defired ; fole power of peace and warr, of
militia by fea and land, of calling and raifing of Parliaments, and all things elfe
was in queftion, which lately were called the liberties of the nation, and privi-
ledges of Parliament. At firfl it was only fpoken to annull the Parliament
1649, which had annulled that of 1048, and had fent for the King on an
unreafonable Treatie. This pafled eafilie ; but at once the defigne appeared of
annulling all the former Parliaments fince 1633, which had given any civill
fanclion to the Generall Aflemblie of Glafgow 1638, or any after Airemblie
which ratified our Solemne League and Covenant or Church Government,
and all we had been doing the years bygone. This caufed a great noife and
alf grief over the whole land ; fo that for a while the motion was retired, and
fuch intention denyed ; but when things were better prepared, it was
openly preft, and caried, fcarce fourtie appearing in the contrare. While
the Preflbyterie of Edinburgh, Synods of Lothian, Fyfe, Glafgow, and
others, were preparing petitions againfl this, they were fore threaten
ed, and that of Fyfe raifed by Rothes, that of Lothian by Callander,
Dumfries by Annandale, etc. When, by our own privie wayes, we had
gotten the King informed of all this, we were once in good hopes of a re-
meed ; but yet that appears no. Lauderdaill, in whom we trufted, being
overpowered and diverted by the greater court of Hyde, and the great zeall
that fundry here hes to his fervice. However, we are filled with grief and
fear of troubling both the inward and outward peace of our Church. His
Majeftie's letter to the Preflbyterie of Edinburgh, confirmed our hopes that no
change fhould be made in our Church; but feeing what is paft fince, we know
not now what to fay, who defire moft gladly to get any true ground of apolo-
gizeing for all the King's and State's actions. Some fpeak of a dangerous im
providence in thefe Acts, as if all pofiibilitie of any folide agreeance betwixt
the King and his fubjects were thereby taken away, if any difcord, which
God forbid, (hould ever again fall out : for what fecuritie is left to the King
1661. LETTERS AND JOURNALS. 465
to give to his people, when treaties confirmed by King and Parliament, in all
due forms, are not binding, but fo eafily ranverfed, on the alleadgeances of
fears, tentations, inconveniences and the like, which will never be wanting.
The moft of the Parliament's work was on delinquents procefies. The
great one was Argyle ; many hearings had he on his long lybell ; his defen
ces were very pregnant ; the Advocat was fome tymes uncivilie tart to him;
the Commiffioner alfo fharp enough ; Sir John Gilmore in many things
reafoned for him : there was no inlack of full hearing and debates to the
uttermoft. His a6l of indemnitie keeped him from all that was libelled
before the year 1651 ; fo all the odious clamors of his crueltie againft the
Lamonds, M 'Donalds, and others, were cut off; albeit in all thefe he gave fair
anfwers. Much of that guilt lay on his deputie George Campbell ; and on
his friends Ardkinglafs, Maconochie, and others : thefe appeared not when
cited, and therefore were forfault ; George appeared, and was made clofe
prifoner : yet a pardon came from the King to him, procured, as was thought,
by his purfe ; for many are poor, and he was very rich. His matter's chief
indytement was, complyance with the Englifh, his fitting in the Parliament at
London, his affifting Monck againft Glencairne and Middleton on the hills.
When his libelled crimes appeared not unpardonable, and his fon Lord
Neill, went up to fee his brother Lome at London, and fpoke fomewhat liber-
allie of his father's fatiffactorie anfwers; Monck was moved to fend downe four
or five of his letters to himfelf and others, proving his full complyance with
them ; that the King fhould not reprieve him. The Chancellor and Rothes
went to Court3 to (hew the hazard of his efcape. The man was very wife,
and queftionlefs the greateft fubje6l the King had ; fometime much known
and beloved in all the three dominions : it was not thought fafe he ihould
live. The condemnatorie fentence he took weell ; fupped the night after
cheerfullie ; parted with his gracious lady that Saturday at night chriflianly.
Mr. Douglafs and Mr. Hutchefon preached to him in the Tolbooth on the
Sunday ; Mr. Dickfon prayed with him all Sunday-night, except a little tyme
of his fleep. On the Monday, he breakfafted and dyned ; about two o'clock
he went through the ftreets, with his hat on, with his friends, very cheerfully ;
did mount the fcaffold, at the Croffe ; fpoke well at the corners of the fcaf-
fold ; prayed twyce : Mr. Hamilton and Mr. Hutchefon waited on him. He
3 Along with Sharp, on the 29th April : Vide supra p. 460.
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blefled the King and his family ; attefted God of his freed ome from all de-
fignes againft the King or his Father ; gave fome pieces to the executioner ;
laid down his head on the block very couragioufly ; at the ftretching out of
his hand, (the figne agreed on,) the Maiden4 quickly ftroke off his head.
However he had been much hated by the people, yet in death he was much
regrated by many, and by none infulted over. His friends in the night, in
Mariftiall's fix-horfe coatch, did cary him through Falkirk and Glafgow, and
thence to Kilpatrick, where they put him in a boat for Dunnun [Dunoon],
and buried him with his fathers in the Kirk of Kilmun. His head was fet
up in the weft-end of the Tolbooth, where Montrofe's head had flood.
In the beginning of the Parliament, Montrofe's head, and bodie buried in
the Borrow-Muir, was appointed to be carried honorably to the Abbay-
Church ; whence, on the King's charges, he was carried to St. Geiles to be
intombed there, with a greater folemnitie5 than any of our King's ever had at
their buriall in Scotland. His fon is a good modeft gentleman, hes given
no offence to any, neither at London nor in the Parliament. The King's
liberalitie, with his Ladie's portion and vertue, are like to put him in a
better condition than was any of his predeceflbrs.
Argyle long to me was the bed and moft excellent man our State of a long
tyme had enjoyed ; but his complyance with the Englifli and Remonftrators,
took my heart off him thefe eight years ; yet I mourned for his death, and ftill
prayes to God for his family. His two fons are good youths, and were ever
loyall. The mine of the family may prove hurtfull to King and Kingdome.
Without the King's favour debt will undoe it : when Huntlie's lands are
randered, and Montrofe payed near a hunder thoufand pund ; his old debts
of four or fyve hunder thoufand merks will not be gotten payed. Many won
der of his debt, and think he muft have money, for he got much, and was
allwayes fober and fpareing. My goodfon, Mr. R[obert] Watfon, was with
his Lady in Rofeneth the night the King landed in England : he told me,
all the dogs that day did take a ftrange yowling, and glo wring up to my
4 " The Maiden," or instrument used for beheading State-criminals, is preserved in the
Museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.
5 There was published at the time, probably by Sydserff, " A Relation of the True Funerals
of the great Lord Marquesse of Montrose, his Majesties Lord High Commissioner, and Captain
General of his Forces in Scotland, &c. ^Edinburgh} Printed in the year 1661." 4to, pp. 24.
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L[ord's] chamber windows for fome houres together. Mr. Alexander Colvin,
juftice-deput, an old fervant of the houfe, told me, that my Lady Ken-
mure, a gracious lady, my Lord's fifter, from fome little fkill of phyfiognomie,
which Mr. Alexander had taught her, had told him fome years agoe, her
brother would die in blood.
After Argyle's procefle, thefe of the minifters took up moft of the Parlia
ment's time. Mr. James Guthrie's libell was tartlie drawn, and wittilie
anfwered ; yet he defended all he had done ; juftified the matter of the Re-
monflrance, Proteftation, Caufes of God's wrath, and fathered all on the
difcipline of the Church and Acts of Aflemblies, even his declinator of
King and Parliament at Perth when cited for treafonable preaching. After
many dayes hearing, perfifting obflinately, he was condemned to be hanged,
and his head to be fett on the Nether-Bow. Though few approved his
way, yet many were grieved to fee a minifter fo feverely ufed. Mr. Ruther-
foord, had not death prevented, was in the fame hazard. Mr. Gillefpie had
gone the fame gate, had not his friends perfuaded him to recant his Remon-
flrance, Proteftation, complyance with the Englilh, and to petition the King
and Parliament for mercy ; all did agree to fupplicat the King for him ; and
now he hes obtained libertie to abide at Ormiftoun, and fix miles about it,
till the firft of March. Mr. James Nafmith, and Mr. John Dickfon of
Rutherglen, Mr. John Stirling, and Mr. Traill, did follow his way. But Mr.
Robert Mackward, Mr. Rutherfoord's fervant at London four years, made
minifter of Glafgow the way I wrote to yow before, in a fett fermon of pur-
pofe, declared his grief for the Parliament's hard ufage of the Covenant,
wherein all honeft men did concurr with him ; but in fo high language, as en
tering a proteftation in heaven againft the Parliament's deed, whereof he
took all his hearers for witnefTes ; fuch termes none did approve, yet for
all that either one or other could fay, he did obftinately (land to all ; which
provocked them to pafie a fentence of baniihment upon him.6
All the reft of the imprifoned minifters are fet free, fome upon one fatif-
faction, and fome upon another. How long their or our libertie lhall laft,
we know no ; for the Parliament feems to have fmall regard of any of us,
fi Mackward was found guilty by Parliament, on the 7th June, but his sentence was delayed
till either the 12th or 14th of July. Instead of banishment, he expected to have met the same
fate as James Guthrie, and had prepared (for the scaffold) his Last Speech, which is still pre
served among the Wodrow MSS.
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They took a way to nominat to themfelves preachers ; Mr. Douglafs indeed
began, but was no more employed ; Mr. Dickfon, Mr. Hamiltoun, and others
of the minifters of Edinburgh, were paft by ; as all we of the weft, except
Mr. James Hamiltoun of Camnethan, and Mr. Hew Blair : but in all the
nuiks of Scotland men were picked out who were thought inclinable to
change our Church-government ; and according to their invectives, againft
what we were lately doing, were printed good, or fecklefs divines, at the
pleafure of a very rafcall, Tom Sincerfe7 the diurnaller, a profane atheiilicall
papift, as fome count him. Mr. Blair, Mr. Dickfon, and Mr. Hutchefon,
were, without all caufe, mifchantly abufed by his pen, without the refentment
of our State, till his Majeftie himfelf commanded to lilence him.8 To my-
felf I fand the Commiflioner very courteous : with much adoe I got myfelf
ihifted of preaching. Mr. Wood and Mr. Colvin did their duetie very ho-
neftly. Diverfe of the northern minifters, and fome others, play'd the fyco-
phants ; diverfe are daggering : but what his Majeftie was informed, that the
moft part of the Miniftrie, efpecially the mod grave, wife, and learned, were
for. Epifcopacie, is utterly falfe ; for the moft and far bed part are lying in
the duft before God, for what they fee, and for which they fear, the great
plague of God, even for the encreafing abominations of burgh and land.
Many blames Mr. Sharp, as the great court-minifter, by whofe fole advyce
the King and Statefmen, both Scots and Englifti, are put on and directed in
thefe medlings with our Church ; but I have alwayes found him fo kind a
friend to myfelf, that I will be loath to admitt fuch thoughts of him. In
deed the Chancellor and Prefident of the Councill, when the Parliament
fent them to the King for removeing the garifons, took him up with them, as
fome thought, to be an agent betwixt them and Lauderdaill, who was faid to
be colder in purfuing Chancellor Hyde's defignes in Scotland than fome
others ; yet we hear no but Lauderdaill and they agree weell eneugh, and
that he keeps fully his court.
The Parliament laid on no taxation, for the land is exhaufted, and very
7 Thomas St. Serfe, or Sydserff, son of the old Bishop of Galloway. He afterwards opened
a theatre in the Canongate, with a company of Comedians ; and was the author of a play
" Tarugo's Wiles," printed at London 1668, 4to.
8 The diurnal or newspaper, published weekly under the title of " Mercuhus Caledonius,"
to which Baillie refers, and of which Sydserff was the Editor, appears to have terminated
with No. 10 £12] on the 28th March 1661.
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poor ; yet they laid on a greater burden than many Parliaments before them
thefe many yeares, fourty thoufand pund fterling a-yeare during the King's
life ; but to be lifted in a way not very burdenfome, a moderat excife on
drink alone. When all this alfo is diftribute among weell-deferving men, the
neceffities of many, and greed of fundrie, will not be gotten fatiffied.
At the beginning of the Parliament there were many brave defigns for
Fiftiing, and more ufe of Trade ; but after much toome-talk, all feems to be
vanifhed, the burroughs flicking abfolutely to their old job-trot for their
own hurt. The charge of the Parliament was great : it had litten long for
no very pleafant purpofes. The moft defired it to rife without adjournment,
and choiced rather to be governed fimply by the King's good pleafure, who was
an equitable and wife Prince. While it's adjourned from July 12th to March
12th [1662], it was not very acceptable : they feared the intervall was but for
the ripening the defignes of bringing in books and bifhops, either in whole or
in part, as praeparatorie to all was in England ; alfo to fyne many for fmall
faults, to fupply the waftrie of undeferving men. The Ac~l of debitor and
creditor wes very heavy to thefe had to doe with it. It was a pitie, when
the King intended nothing but to eafe his people, and make the hearts of all
that loved him rejoyce, it mould fall out, through the improvidence at leaft
of fome, to the contrare. Our good Towne was particularly greived that
the nineteinth part of the Excyfe mould be laid on them alone, notwith-
ftanding of all their very diligent commiffioner John Bell could doe to the
contrare. The Towne of Edinburgh got a part of their Excyfe to defray
their prefent burdens : but get what they will, it does little good ; for their
debtyit is above nyne hunder thoufand merks, though flill they be ftenting
their Towne for their needlefs prodigalitie. They fay, the dinner they gave
to the Commiffioner, in the Colledge-hall,9 did cod them large fyve hunder
pound fterling.
In England and Ireland thus affairs are : After the King had diflblved the
Parliament at London, December 29th, all things being done abundantlie to
9 On the 29th May 1661 , the Lord High Commissioner was conducted, by the Pro
vost and Magistrates of Edinburgh, to the great hall of the College ; where " he was wel
comed by Mr. Lighten, Principal of the place, with a Latine Speech, which with other pieces
of poetry are printed by themselves. Here was prepared by the City of Edinburgh a most
sumptuous and magnificent Feast, that it was thought by many, and these witty travellers,
that all Europe could not out-do it," &c. (" The Work goes Bonnely on,"— Edinb. 1661, 4to.)
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the King's contentment, the day of Coronation was appointed to be April 23d,
St. George's day. The ceremonie was very folemne, as ever any coronation
before : our only grief was, that the Bifhops, in anointing, crowning, and all,
had fo deep a hand. It was thought the former Parliament, how bountifull
to the King foever, had one defect in the legalitie, that it was not fummoned
by the King, but called by the former Parliament ; to remead this, another
was called to meet May 8th. Great care was had to get, in all the fhyres,
men commiflionat according to the heart of the court : the Prefbyterians alfo
made fome flickleing for this, but to no purpofe ; for the Chancellor was fo
active, as the mod affe&ionat of the old Cavileer partie was generallie chofen.
When they mett, the Chancellor's fpeech advertifed them to beware of the
Prefbyterian minifters, as peftiferous incendiaries : this grieved us fore. But
when the Houfe of Commons did not only vote the Bilhops into the Houfe
of Lords, but the Solemne League and Covenant to be burnt with the hand
of the hangman, all our hopes were turned in defpaire.
The Parliament of Ireland, which fatt downe the fame 8th of May, was not
behind, but put Bifhops in the Houfe of Lords ; yea, choiced Bifhop Bram
ble to be fpeaker in the Houfe of Peers, though Mr. Davis of Derrie was
readie to challenge him of many adulteries, and other odious crimes. The
perfecution of Prelbyterian minifters began to be very hot : almofl all of them,
both in England and Ireland, were put from their charges. The King, be
fore the Parliament, after fundry conferences with the chief of the Epifcopall
and Prefbyterian partie, had emitted a Declaration, albeit full eneugh for
Books and Bifhops, yet it had fundry limitations for the eafe of Prefbyteri
ans ; but all was negle&ed. The Biftiops and Books were fully eftablifhed,
as of old, without If 's or And's : this caufes a very great mifcontment in
many. What the end will be, the Lord knows ; only for the time, thoufands,
who heartilie pray for all good to the King, doe cry to heaven for help
againft the Epifcopall oppreflbrs, who little regard their prayers, knowing
that they have neither any will, nor any power, to ufe any force againft them.
Pamphlets on both fides flee thick abroad.
The King declared to all his three Parliaments the unanimous advyce
he had gotten from all his counfellors, to marrie the Infanta of Portugall ;
and all his Parliaments gave their heartie confent to it, though it was vifible
it brought with it a prefent warr with Spaine. This was little regarded,
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efpeciallie lince Holland adhered to our King, and fubmitted. to him all their
differences with Portugall. The great conditions, which yet are fecret, and
the great hopes of the Princeffe readinefs to be of the King's religion, makes
all to lyke the match weell, and to pray for a bleffing to it. The Parliament at
London would gladlie [have] been (as they fay) at changeing the Acl; of In
demnity ; but the King's peremptor adhereing to it made them let it alone ;
only fome more executions, and forfaultries of them in the Tower are expect
ed. It was much, that Sir Henry Mylmie [Mildmay] and Robert Wallop
efcaped with drawing to Tiburne with ropes about their necks on hurdles.
They fpeak of Sir Harie Vaine and Lambert as to be tryed for their life :
they are two of the moft dangerous men in England. Their execution will
be weel eneugh taken by all generallie ; yea, though Solicitor Saintjons [St.
John] mould be added to them. The King defires the Parliament to adjourne
till winter, that he may goe to his progreffe towards Worcefter, and the places
of his deadlie dangers, to vifit all who had been there friends unto him.
After the adjourning of our Parliament, fundry of our nobles pofted to
court ; the Commiflioner, Duke Hamiltoun, Montrofe, the Thefaurer,
Athole, Aboyne, and others. There was there before, the Chancellor,
Rothes, Lome, and more. It's thought their agreeance will be fcarce good
upon their private interefls, and efpeciallie about Lome, whether he (hall be
reflored or not ; but I fear they mall agree too weell to trouble our poor
Church. The King's late declaration is no wayes fatiffa6lorie ; it continues
our Church-difcipline only dureing pleafure, and difcharges any preaching,
petitioning, or medling with the Church-government. Mr. Sharp is the
only man with whom the King advyfes ; and many fay he is corrupted by
Hyde ; which I wifh [may] be falfe ; otherwayes we are in an exceeding hard
taking : yet the Lord ever lives.
For our Towne and Colledge all has been quiet this year. When my pre-
fentation came downe at laft, I was moved to accept of it, with the good will
of all. No joy at all had I in it, for the burden is great, efpeciallie of debt
and pleas ; but importunitie of friends moved me to take it, left in theie
reeling times fome unhappie man mould be fet over our heads. I moved
the Facultie to call to my profeffion Mr. James Ferguffon, a moft wife, gra
cious, and able man : I was lyke to have gotten him ; but when the Synod
was ready to have voted his tranflation, Mr. John [Young], my colleague, with
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an unhappie overture, put them to a delay ; and fince, we were difcharged by
proclamation to meet, fo I fear I fhall lofe him, which makes my burden the
heavier. The Toune now is abfolutelie guided by the Bells and Campbells
alone. They guide indeed weell, but keeping the government among them-
felf almoft alone: I fear ere long it caufe new trouble among us. The
act of presentations to patrons puts the planting of all vacancies in their
hands, and I am afraid they make not a good choice. My boy Harie is now a
preacher : God has given him a good and a fweet gift ; I hope he fhall doe
weell. I was carefull to get the Chancellor,1 my fcholler, made Chancellor
of our Univerfitie, and Bedlay2 Vice-Chanceller.
I have gotten fundry of your's latelie, two yefterday together, May 3d and
July 4th, for which I thank you. I think before this you have gotten
fundry of mine alfo. I long to hear if you receaved my book, and your
fenfe of it. My Speech at my entry to my place, you have herewith : If you
think fitt, I would put it at the end of my book, as a public!; teftimonie of
my loyaltie ; alfo my prayer and exhortation at the laureation.
' I expected from yow, before this, the French Gazet of Amfterdam ; whiles
it is a refrefhment to us to look abroad. It's to me a marvell that the
French can fit fo long quiet. I know not if this hunder year they were out
of fome motion four year together. Who can be the chief Minifler of State in
place of the Cardinall ? We hear no more of their affairs than if they were
all dead. That great earthquake in the fouth of France, what it may portend
we expeft in tyme. Our Queen's retireing out of England, with her daughter
Henriet, fome thought was more on mifcontent for Chancellor Hyde's too
great power, than for any realitie of a match with the Duke of Anjou. The
match of the Prince of Florence with the fecond daughter of Orleans, might
weell have ferved the elded. God be thanked your State is in fo good tearmes
with all their neighbours. We hope Spain, in his old age, and infancie of his
fon, will be loath to venture on a warr with England. If the warr of the
Turk were reall with the Emperour, it feems Germanic and Italic would not
be fo flow drawen to it. Our heart is fore for the condition of Tranfylvania.
Is that brave familie of Ragotfi clean rooted out ? But what we hear of
cafting all out of Pole, by act of Parliament, who will not declare themfelves
Papifts, grieves us fore. Though that fool Chriflina of Sueden be contemned
1 William Earl of Glencairn. Lord High Chancellor. 2 James Roberton of Bedlay.
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of all, we think it juft with God and man. Bleffed be God ! who yet defends
the Venetians againft the height of the Turk's rage.
When the King was goeing to his progreffe, and the Parliament of Eng
land to adjourne, July 20th, they changed, as we hear, their refolution : the
Parliament fat Hill ; the King gave over his progreffe for this year ; he is not
for to fend for his Queen in hafte. What may be the reafon of this change,
we yet doe not know. I am glad to find yow continue juft in my fenfe of our
public!: affaires.
FOR MR. JAMES SHARP AT LONDON. AUGUST 29TH 1661.
DEAR JAMES,
WHAT yow are doing there now I can learn from no man. I am forry that
none of our old friends keep correfpondence with yow, at this fo neceffare a
tyme. For myfelf I reft on what yow wrote to me, when yow went from this,
that your journey was not for any change in our Church. Diverfe times fince
the King came home, by your letters, yow made us confident there was no
change intended for us : Bleffed be God ! hitherto there hes been none
offered. What now there among yow may be in agitation, yow on the place
know. Yow were the moft wife, honeft, diligent, and fuccefiffull agent of the
nation in the late dangers of our Church in Cromwell's tyme : your expe
rience and power now is greater. In this very great danger, apprehended by
many, of other changes and forer troubles from the Epifcopall partie, both
here and there, I hope God fhall make yow as happy inftrument to prevent
all our feares, and to allay all our prefent forrowfull perplexities, as yow have
oft been before. Let others think and fpeak of yow as they pleafe, and in
their follie give yow matter of provocation, if yow were not wife, grave, and
fearing of God, yet yow lhall deceave us notablie, and doe us a very evident
evill turne before I believe it. Since firft acquaintance yow have ever been
very faithfull and loving to myfelf in all occafions.
For the tyme, there be two favours I intreat from yow : Firft, that you
would help our Colledge in its very great neceffitie. This year we keeped
no table ; not one mailer of us hes gotten a fix pence of ilipend, nor will get
in hafte : for our laft year's table a thoufand pound is yet aughtand and
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the prodigall waftrie of Mr. Gillefpie hes put us in above twenty-five thou-
fand merks of debt. Mr. John Young, as yow know, gave to the Chan
cellor, our noble Chancellor, fome memorandums for our help, whereof yow
promifed to hold his Lordfhip in mind. I wrote to the Secretary once and
again, as ye know like wife, in that matter, but without any fruit as yet ;
except yow join with thofe our two Noble friends, I think we but threfh
the water. Had I not expected by yow and them fome relief of that kind,
I had never put my head in that comfortlefs yoke, wherein now it fticks.
Dear James, help your old friends out of beggarie and dyvorie if yow can :
I am fure his Gracious Majefty hes, this twelvemoneth bygone, given many
thoufand pounds to them that hes fair lefs deferved, and can doe him fair
\efs fervice for it.
The other courtefie I defire to be in your debt for is, That if his
Majefty be pleafed to fend for any from this to fpeak with anent our
Church, as he hes twyce declared he purpofes, yow would fee effectually
that I be none of them ; for neither am I able, in this my (ixtieth yeare,
and frequent infirmities, for any fuch journey, whether be fea or land ; nor
does my mind ferve me to give advyce for the leaft change in our Church,
as yow well know ; but with all my ftrength I behoved to duTuade it,
which would but offend his Majefty ; whom I will be loather in the leaft to
offend than any mortall creature, for the particular refpect I have, and ever
have had, fince my firft acquaintance in the Hague.
Yow fee, James, how ftill I make bold to put yow to fafhrie for me, which
ftill I purpofe to doe, fo long as ye like to continue the old man towards me.
The Lord be with yow, and help yow, at this mod dangerous nick of tyme,
to doe our poor Mother Church your wonted and faithfull great fervice.
Your Brother, to love, honour, and ferve yow,
R. B.
FOR THE RIGHT HONOURABLE AND NOBLE LORD, MY LORD CHANCELLOR
OF SCOTLAND.
MY LORD,
THERE are many that long for your home coming ; but few more than I.
Without your Lordfhip's prefence we can get nothing done in our Colledge
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affaire. I wifh your Lordfhip, from my heart, a profperous returne, fo foone
as the publick and your Lordfhip's own affaires may permit. Thefe papers
Mr. John Young delivered to your Lordftiip, I hope are remembred. If we
get no help from the King, by your Lordfhip's mediation, we are undone. I
fent by Mr. John Young, to be mewed to your Lordfhip, a lift of above
twenty-fix thoufand merks of debt, in which Mr. Gillefpie hes left us, befide
the ordinarie burden of the Colledge ; and ten thoufand pund more will
not perfite his too magnificent buildings. He got from the Ufurpers to this
work, moft out of the excife of Glafgow, above twenty thoufand merks, and
yearly two thoufand four hundred merks for twelve burfars,3 payed quarterly,
out of the cuftoms of Glafgow. I hope I am in no error, to think that your
Lordihip and I mould be no leffe fibb to the King and his bountie than Mr.
Gillefpie and his Chancellar Thurloe was to Oliver. My good Lord, be in-
treated to do for us what ye can, to help us out of our beggarie and dyvorie,
wherin we lye, by no fault of mine.
I have but one word more, as your Lordfhip's care and kindnefs did
fave all the miniftrie and gentry, be -weft Glafgow, from the fore trouble
otherwayes would have come on many of them : fo, if ye would win and
weir, while ye live, the blefiing of us all, defert not our poor Church at
this tyme of her greateft need. Permitt not our gracious Soveraigne to
be deceived, by any whomfoever, that it will be fo eafy a matter, with
his people's contentment, to make any change in our Church. It's true,
if ye will make mofl humble and loyall fupplications a crime and dif-
loyaltie, (which yet hes been a naturall and necefTar libertie for all fubje&s in
all places and all tymes,) yow may doe what yow will, and none fpeak
againft yow fo much as in a fupplication : but I am fure our Prince will egre-
gioufly be abufed, if truth be not told him, that putting of Bifhops upon us
3 As Baillie so often reiterates his charge against Patrick Gillespie for gross extravagance, the
following passage from the ' Mercurius Caledonius' may be quoted, in reference to Gillespie's
appearance before Parliament, March 6th 1661 : — " Mr. Gillespie was brought to the Barr :
he had a handsome discourse, by way of Information, relating to a Vindication." It is a great
pitty, that this man should ever have been ensnared in mistakes : for he is a generous and
publick spirifd Soul, witness his great emprovement of the University of Glasgow, both
by the enlargement of the fabrick, and encreasing of the burser-ships, which is the grand
nursery of our Clergy, and the first degree of their advancement. And if there be merit in
the Fanaticks of either kinde, this man hath the largest share," (p. 102.)
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at this tyme will caufe a more generall grief and mifcontent in Scotland, than
any action of any of our Princes hes done thefe hundred years. And fmce God
hes put your Lordfliip for the prefent in the chief place of authoritie in our
land, and credit with his Majefty, be not content to lye by, but as ye would be
faithfull to your Prince, Countrey, and Mother-Church, to which three after
God ye are moft oblidged, lend us now a lift ; that, in the true account I
may readilie give to the world and pofteritie of what is paft among us thefe
thirty-fix years, your Lordfhip's juft chara&er may be with the faireft of
all, as I wilh and hope it (hall. The confcience of my loving and honouring
of your Lordfliip from a child, emboldens me to all this freedome. The Lord
blefs your Lordfliip, fo prays
Your humble and much oblidged fervant,
R. B.
FOR MY LORD LAUDERDAILL.
My LORD,
THAT I get no anfwer of any I wrote to your Lordfliip, I take it weell,
knowing what elfe yow have to doe. It fatiffies me when I know ye receive
mine, to be made ufe of as ye think fit. I was a while in perplexitie for yow,
hearing (lories of combination againft yow ; but as I took them for fables at
firft, fo I am glad they have proven fuch in the end. At this tyme I have
but two things to fay : The one concerns our Colledge ; the other our
Church ; concerning the firft I have written, I think thryce alreadie.
Mr. Gillefpie hes left us both in a debt of above twenty-fyve thoufand
merks, and in a neceflity to perfyte his buildings, whilk ten thoufand pound
more will not doe. No Mafter of our houfe hes gotten this year a tuppance
of ftipend; yea for our laft year's table we are in debt yet above one thou
fand pounds. Had I not furely expected, by your Lordfhip's mediation, to
have obtained fome help from his Majefty, when fo many of no greater de-
ferving have obtained fo liberallie, I had never put my head in that yoke,
under the which already I groane. Shall Mr. Gillefpie for his vanities
gett between twenty and threttie thoufand merks of the Ufurpers, and we
for our neceflities get nothing from the King, no not his Father's debt fub-
fcryved to us in the year 1633, the Acts whereof, as yet, I hope are no
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revocked ? My Lord Chancellor and Mr. Sharp know our condition, and 1
believe would be willing to aflift your Lordfhip for our help ; but I hope
yow need no affiftance for any fuch matter.
Concerning our Church, we are informed our dangers are daily en-
creafing. Yow lately fubfcribed a Proclamation difcharging all fupplications
anent Church- Government. Were fupplications difcharged to any fubjefts
in any tyme or place in the world, when modeft and loyall ? and for fuch alone,
were ever the chief judicatories of the Church diffblved by authorise ? What
will the end of fuch work be ? If I were able to travell, as truely through
age and infirmity I am not, I would venture to come up and doe, at leaft as
Willie Hill did to King James, the 17th of December, to greet to him for
mere love and favour, and mew him how he was miiinformed of the flate of
our countrie, that Bifhops would become fo lovelie creatures to us as we were
ready to receive them, without fo much as a fupplication to the contrare. I
think I could make good that, by his Majefty's permiffion, in twenty dayes
tyme, I mould get the hands to a moil earneft fupplication againft all no
vations in our Church, of all the minifters of our Synod without exception of
one man, and there will be of us above fix fcore in Kyle, Carrick, Cunning-
hame, Clydfdaill, Barranthrow, and the Lennox. Alfo, in the Synods of Gal
loway, Dumfries, Argyle, and the Ides, I hear not of one man that would not
joyn on their knees with us. The qualities of thefe light men about Aber
deen, who have been ever for all changes, are weell enough known. It is
all the pities in the world, that when his Majefty has no other intention but
to give contentment to all his good people, that by the falfe information of
fome, none of the beft men, he mould doe that which infalliblie would bring
the greateft grief and mifcontentment, generally, on all here, that for fome
hunder years any action of any of our Princes ever brought on this land. I am
fure, though we be debarred from fupplicating either King or Parliament, yet
many thoufands of the truely beft of this land would cry loud to the heaven,
and never be filent, till that God did deliver them from all thefe novations
and their inevitable confequences. If the mod gracious and juft Prince in the
world be not fully informed of all thefe things in tyme, before he be ingadged,
fye on yow all who are about him. Let the King doe what he will, he will
ever get the bleffings of us all ; but believe it, that the too juft grieves of the
people will light at laft, fickerlie, on fome of your heads.
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I have fent my Chronologic to Holland for the prefle. I hope it fhall give
offence to no man, though I fall in debates with many. The dedication will
not goe this three moneth, and before it goe your Lordfhip (hall fee it, that
there may be no word into it which may be difpleafing. The Lord blefle
your Lordfhip to be doing good while ye have tyme. Remember your two
coufins, the Father of the lafl two Dukes [of Hamilton], and eminent Bal-
carras. Your Lordfhip' s fervant, as ye (hall deferve.
R. B.
If our Kirk were out of danger, and our Colledge out of debt, I would give
little for the kindnefs of all the courtiers in Chriftendome.
FOB MY LORD LAUDERDAILL.
MY LORD,
•As the world goes now, I fear I will be forced to importune your Lordfliip
ofter fair than I purpofed. My Lord Chancellor told me, that his Majeftie
had fpoken to him and yow of me, that fome there had given him an evill in
formation of me for reprinting lately my Parallel. I told my Lord Chan
cellor the fimple truth, wherewith he was prefently fatiffied, and promifed to
write up for my clearing. Yet I thought fitt to informe your Lordfhip alfo,
that at your conveniencie yow would clear my innocencie to his Majeftie.
Thefe obfervations on the Scottifh Service-book I writ twenty-four years ago,
and delivered for the moft part in the Generall AfTembly of Glafgow ; by the
advyce of the chief of our Church and State, were printed at London 1640 ;
fince that time I never looked after them, till within thefe few weeks I faw a
copie of them as reprinted at London 1661. This is a very falfe lye ; for
there is not a word of them reprinted but the title-page alone,4 by fome cheat
ing printer there, to make fome old copies of the firft and only impreffion fell.
However, believe me, I knew no more of that cheater's deed than the child
unbom ; nor know I at all who is the man. Your Lordfliip knows I have
4 This is a mistake, as the edition of his " Parallel of the Liturgie and Mass Book," printer!
in 1661, is unquestionably not the same as that of 1641. See the account of Baillie's public t-
tions in the first volume.
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written half-a-dozen of little tractats againft Books and Bifhops, and near
as many againft Sectaries; but I would be loath now to reprint any of
them. Yet if any there fhould reprint them utterly without my knowledge,
it were not my fault. I expect your Lordfliip, in this particular, will right
me with his Majeftie.
Your Lordftiip's Servant,
September 9th [1661.] R. BAILLIE.
FOR MY LORD LAUDERDAILL.
MY LORD,
I HAVE written fundrie to yow of late, with greater freedome poffiblie than
the tymes doe admitt, but I fhall endeavour to trouble your Lordfhip with
little more of that kind, refolving fo great filence as I may towards all
men ; but mourning to God, while I live, for thefe things I never thought
to have feen. I hope your Lordfliip hes righted me with his Majeftie for the
miftake of my reprinted Parallel, according to my information fent up Sep
tember 9th.
At this tyme I flee to your Lordfliip, as my laft anchor on earth, for
help in fome things concerning our Houfe, wherein if ye fhould neglect
me, I will be exceedingly afflicted, and ignorant what to doe nixt. Mr. Gil-
lefpie, befide the great debt he left us in, having found us in none, continues
to vex us yet farder. By his numerous and powerfull friends, in the laft day
of the Parliament, got through an Act, whereby he claimes of us fifteen
moneths ftipend fince October laft, (twelve whereof are exprefly in my pre-
fentation) ; and, by other cavills, great Cumins of money farther. He hes
begun to vex us already before the Councill ; and if he get not his will there,
(as he is too like to doe,) he is ready to keep us in plea before the Seffion
all this winter : there was never more affronted impudence feen. I humbly
befeech your Lordfliip, if ye may think it convenient, to get a line from his
Majeftie to the Chancellor, to command Mr. Gillefpie to defift from fuch
fycophantick perfuits of us, whom he hes peeled to the bones alreadie. His
Majeftie, in my prefentation, hes under his hand declared, That Mr. Gillefpie
ab initio was an intruder, and had never any right to his ordinarie ftipend as
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Principal!, which, on that declaration, feems, might in law be repeated from
him ; but wifhing him no harme, we only defire that his Majeftie would declare
to the Chancellor his pleafure, that he might be difcharged to crave any more
money from us, efpecially fince the firft of October 1660, the tyme when he
was removed from us to prifon for his crimes againft the State ; and to com
mand him to be comptable for the foumes of money he hes taken from the
Colledge, over and above his ordinarie ftipend : fuch an order from his Ma
jeftie, and nothing elfe, I know would eafe us from great trouble and expenfe,
which otherwife his reftleflhefs will quickly put upon us.
In a fecond [thing], alfo, I befeech your Lordfliip to pitie our condition. My
Lord Chancellor, when laft there, obtained, under the King's hand, a recom
mendation of our hard cafe to the Councill, to be helped out of the vacant
ftipends, and other wayes they could think upon ; but notwithstanding of all
our Noble friend could doe, our petition was laid afide, to our no fmall grief.
There remains now to us nothing but to renew our fute to your Lordftiip, to
prefent a line to his Majeftie for his hand, not to the Exchequer, but the
'Collector of the Excyfe of Glafgow, to pay us at laft that two hundred
pound fterling which his blefied Father, in the year 1633, gave us a praecept
for to the Exchequer, and for which the officers of the Exchequer gave us
fundry tymes an order, as the doubles here enclofed do (hew, but never a
penny of it could we obtaine to this day. Indeed Mr. Gillefpie got from
Oliver, weell payed, a gift for our building of fyve hundred pound fterling
alfo for twelve new burfars out of the cuftoms of Glafgow, which puts us in
the greater hope of his Majeftie's fatherly bounty in augmenting the two
hundred pound we crave.
There is a third thing I have to fupplicat your Lordftiip for, above all the
reft ; the Biftioprick of Galloway, a great part of our fubfiftence, is now taken
from us. His Majeftie, I hear, does gracioufly promife to all the Univerfities
liberall recompenfes for all is taken from them ; in that we fhall humbly wait
with the reft for his Majeftie's conveniency, hoping your Lordftiip will not
be forgetfull of us when other Univerfities are provided for. But for the
Subdeanrie of Cader and Monkland, which we latelie did purchafe from the
Dutchefle of Hamiltone, with all the mortified money we had, as my Lord
or my Ladie, I hope, will teftify to your Lordmip ; our lawyers advyfed us
to feek from the King a fignature of novodamus for that our intereft : We
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did prepare it ; but our great friends, my Lord Chancellor and Mr. Sharp
thought it unexpedient to fend it up at this tyme. Only we hope your
Lordfhip will be carefull that no other gett a prefentation to that Subdeanrie,
which we have bought at a dear rate, without the which we are not able to
fubfift ; and if your Lordihip could think it expedient to get a line from his
Majeftie, fignifying his pleafure to ratifie to us what the Dutcheffe and her
Father were fecured in by his Majeftie' s blefled Father, and all the law which
then was in Scotland, it would be a lingular benefit to us ; for without this
we are in hazard of a prefent ftop of all our rent there, whereof for fome
years we have been in peaceable poffeffion.
My Lord, I ftiall be loath in hafte to fafti your Lordfhip with fo long
epiftles ; but you know I am one of your old fervants, and it is for an Uni-
verlitie which in the tyme of my Prefidencie is like to ruine, if yow my old
patron put not to your hand quicklie to help it. What you can get done,
or fees yow cannot get done, I intreat with all poffible fpeed I may be adver-
tifed. What yow direct your fervant, John Don, to write to me with, if it
come to Mr. Hamilton, minifter of Edinburgh, he will fend it me with a fure
hand. I prefie hafte becaufe our action with Mr. Gillefpie, before the Coun-
cell, begins 19th of this inftant, and ye know he drives furiouflie. I hope
old kindnefs will not yet permitt yow to defert me in this very evill world.
I remain a fupplicant to God for your Lordftiip's profperitie ; and this is all
I can doe in the recompence of your Lordfhip's favours.
Your Lordlhip's humble fervant,
R. BAILLIE.
What I write of Monkland and Mr. Gillefpie, let fo few know it as may
be for caufes.
Glafgow, Oaober 1ft 1661.
FOB MR. JAMES SHARP.
JAMES,
I WAS glad when I looked on the double of my laft to yow, to find your
miftake to be the clean contrarie way. Whatever grief my heart has from
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our changes, and is like to have till I die, I hope it fhall ftand with tearms of
great refpeft to yow, from whom I have receaved fo many favours, and ftill
expect to receive more. As we left, I have now fent to yow a double of
the King's grant to us, 1633, with the Exchequer's order thereupon : as yow
promifed, I expect yow will prefent a line for us to his Majeftie about it. I
have written to Lauderdaill to concurr with yow. If yow two in this new
world defert me, I muft take me to my books and my heeds, and leave this
Ration wherein yow two moved the King to fettle me. Our fignature for
Monkland, as yow advyfed, I have delayed till the thick of your bufinefs be
over. In our recompence for Galloway I expect yow will deal for us as for
St. Andrewes.
Are ye not able to conjure for us this new florme that comes on us, by
a new claime of Mr. Gillefpie of ten thoufand merks, that found us much
to the fore, and leaves us in twenty thoufand merks of debt, as he muft
confefle, but, as I count, thretie-fix thoufand ? Should he be heard to
plead for more money from us, even fince the firfl of October, when by the
States order he was removed from us, for his crimes, and declared by the
King never to have any right among us ? Should this impudent injuftice
be tolerat ? If it goe on, I will be forced to entreat yow to complaine of it
to the King ; and if no redrefie can be had of it, earneftlie to defy re yow to
procure for me fo honed a regrefie as may be to my former flation ; for
truelie, almoft dailie anxious perplexities for his heavie debts, does oft take
my meat and fleep from me, and may bereave me of my life, if I be not fome
way freed of them. James, I doubt not of your kindnefs ; and if I did,
I would not thus trouble yow with my letters.
Your twenty-year old friend and fervant,
R. BAILLIE.
Glafgow, Oaober 1ft 1661.
FOR MY LADY DUTCHES OF HAMILTOUN.
MADAM,
YOUR Ladyfliip is my old friend; and, before yow were borne, your
Father and Uncle were oft very kind to me. That bargaine good Mr. Gil-
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lefpie made for us with your Ladyfhip, our Jail payment of it to Preftoun of
two thoufand merks, with annualrent, we purpofe God willing, to performe
faithfullie at the terme of Martinmas. In our confultation with our lawyers,
we find, they think us very unfecure by this new world in our bargaine,
except by your Ladyfhip's and my Lord's help we get a new fignature of it
from the King. For the time we requeift your Ladyfhip, or my Lord, may
be pleafed to declare to my Lord Lauderdaill the truth of our bargaine, and
your willingnefs that the King's hand fhould be put to a fignature for us, fo
foone as we can gett it readie to prefent. Expecting this juftice and favour
from your Ladyfhip, I remain,
Your Grace's humble and much obliged fervant,
R. BAILLIE.
Glafgow, October 1ft [1661.]
[FoR MB. WILLIAM SPANG.]
DEAR COUSIN,
MY lad was by the hand of my lad Harrie. I have keeped my chamber
thefe fix weeks, and yet does keep it through a rofe in my legge ; but,
blefled be God, I now walk up and downe my chamber and yaird. The
Doctor thinks I have a fcrubie : I find an univerfall weaknefs, efpeciallie of
my ftomack. It were a favour to me to be gone ; yet I am willing to abide
my appointed time, and take my part with others in thefe very hard tymes.
It was one of my fpeciall defyres to have my Book printed, which yow, of
your fingular kindnefs, have procured fullie to my mind. I will not be able
to return yow this fpeciall favour. It is in fyne paper, a brave letter and
volume ; I could not have wifhed it better ; only I would intreat yow would
haften it fo much as may be, that it be not opus pqflhumum. As yow have
fent me the two firft Iheets, I wifh yow fent me likewife what fince are cafl
off. The corrector had need, for the credit of the prefie, to be more care-
full : in thefe two fheets yow fee what grofie faults are efcaped, which
makes folaecifms and nonfenfes. Do your befl to caufe help this.
Your new peice of VoflGus is but a bagg of clatters, blown up with in-
folent pride, unbefeeming a fchollar, or any modefl man ; whom I mind
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never to know. The reft yow fent us were without catalogue or price, but
it is good yow keep befide yow an account of all fuch things. Send me with
your next an account of all the Colledge is due, but be intreated to be only
in Englifh money which we underftand. I have delyvered to Mary Hamil-
tone, as yow defyred, one hundred and one pound, fiftein milling : yow have
herewith her difcharge to yow of it, and fuch teftimonialls from our Toune as
yow defired. Let me know your receipt heirof with the fame bearer.
The ftuffe for my Wife's gown, which came not to her till the other day, was
very good, but in the meafure there is fome miftake as it feems. Yow write
it is elevin Dutch ell and a quarter : it hes gone through many hands ; what
came to her is but nine Dutch ell and three quarters ; fo that it is a Dutch ell
and a halfe leffe than what yow fent, when Adam Ritchie with a Dutch ell
wand hes meafured it fharplie. This cannot be helped. I have fent yow
here a-patterne of the ftuffe, that yow may fend me two Dutch ell and ane
halfe of the fame ftuffe, for my wife's gowne does require it, and cannot be
made up without it.
The publicl; affaires yow know them as well and better than I. Our Kirk,
all the Englifh tymes, had been very faithfull to our King, and fo inftrumen-
tall as we could for his reftitution. We had loft much blood at Dunbar,
Worcefter, and elfe where, and at laft our libertie, in his ca.ufe. We did firmly
expect, at his Reftitution, a comfortable fubfiftence to ourfelves, and all our
Prefbyterian brethren, in all the dominions ; and believe the King's intention
was no other ; but, by divine permifiion, other counfells thereafter prevailed,
and now carry all. When the King was at Breda, it was faid he was not averfe,
from eftablilhing the Prefbytery ; nor was the contrare peremptorily refolved
till the Saturday at night, in the cabbin-councell at Canterbury. At the
beginning it went on foftly : Calamy, Baxter, Manton, Reynold, were made
chaplains : but at once it altered. This did come from our fupine negligence
and unadvertence ; for the Parliament, then confiding of the fecluded members,
the Citie, Monck alfo, and the Armie, were for us : Had we but petitioned for
Prefbytrie at Breda, it had been, as was thought, granted ; but fearing what
the lead delay of the King's coming over might have produced, and trufting
fully to the King's goodnefs, we haftened him over, without any provifion for
our fafetie. At that time it was, that Dr. Sheldon, now Bifhop of London,
and Dr. Morley, did poyfon Mr. Sharp, our agent, whom we trufted ; who,
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peice and peice, in fo cunning a way, hes trepanned us, as we have never
win fo much as to petition either King, Parliament, or Councell. My
Lord Hyde [is] the great Minifter of State who guided all, and to whom, at
his lodging in Worcefter-houfe, the King weekly, and ofter, ufes to refort and
keep counfell with him alone fome hours ; and fo, with the King, Mr. Sharp
became more intimate then any man almoft of our nation. It feemes he hes
undertaken to doe in our Church that which now he has performed eafily,
and is ftill in acting.
He had for co-operators the Commiffioner, Chancellor, and Rothes :
Lauderdaill, and Craufurd, were a while contrare; but feeing the King
peremptor, they gave over. His Majeftie's letter to us at firft, penned by
Mr. Sharp, promifed to keep up our Church government eftablifhed by
law ; and to fend for Mr. Douglafs and others to conferre about our af
faires. The laft Mr. Sharp hindred ; for with him alone it pleafed his Ma-
jeftie to conferr : and the fenfe of the firft, few of us dreamed till it came
out thereafter. We were amazed at the Proclamation, difcharging all pe
titioning againft Epifcopall government eftablifhed by law, as it was in the
year 1633 ; of putting downe our Synods, and Prefbyteries, and Seffions ; of
calling up Mr. Sharp, Mr. Fairfoull, and Mr. James Hamilton of Camnethan ;
alfo Mr. Lighten, then at London, to be confecrate by the Englifh Bifhops ;
which, after fome tyme, they were by the Bifhops of London and Worcefter,
and others, with many Englifh guifes. Their feaft to all the Scots, and
many of the Englifh nobilitie, was great. They flayed there fome moneths
longer than was expected, that they might be fufficiently inftru&ed in the
Englifh way. When they came downe, they were receaved by a number of
Noblemen, Gentlemen, and the Magiftrates of Edinburgh, magnificklie : the
Commiffioner's Lady feafted them and the Nobilitie that night, as the Chan
cellor did the morrow thereafter. Mr. Sharp had bought a fair new coach at
London, at the fides whereof two lakqueys in purple does run.
The Parliament of England did all things for the King he pleafed ; aug
mented much his revenue beyond what any King in England ever had.
After fome conferences at Worcefter-houfe, betwixt the Bifhops and a few
of the Prefbyterians, where it was hoped his Majeftie would bring the
Bifhops to a great condefcenfion, at laft it was found they would yield in as
good as nothing : fo the Houfe of Commons formed a Bill of Uniformity, that
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all (hould be put from their charges who did not conforme to the Bifhops
orders. On this the Houfe of Lords did make ibme demurre, and yet does ;
but we doubt not of their agreeance to it at laft ; and from thenceforth a fear-
full perfecution is expected, for the prevalent part of the Epifcopall faction
are imbittered, and, both in doctrine and practice, it feems, fully of the old
Canterburian ftamp. God be mercifull to our brethren, who hes no help of
man, nor any refuge but in God alone : We fear our cafe mall be little better.
Our Parliament was adjourned from the 10th of March to the 8th of
May. The Commiffioner and our Nobles defyred not to leave London till
they had feen the Queen. Alfo much talk was of difcord betwixt the Com
miffioner and Thefaurer, about the collection of the new revenue of fourty
thoufand pound fterling. The Thefaurer pleaded it might come in to the
Exchequer, and the other had obtained a gift of collecting it to his good-
brother Lord Lyon : the Secretar partied the one, and my Lord Hyde the
other ; the ftrife was more long and loud than was fitt ; the King agreed
them at laft as it might be. The Commiffioner came from London on the
Wednefday, and came hither on the Sunday morning ; the Archbilhops did
confecrate other five on the Wednefday at the Abbay- church, Mr. Hali-
burton to Dunkell, Mr. Paterfone to Roffe, Mr. Murdoch M'Keinzie to
Murray, Mr. Forbes to Caithnefs, Mr. Robert Wallace to the Ides ; Dr.
Wimart defigned for Edinburgh, and Mr. David Mitchell for Aberdeene,
are not yet come out of England ; nor old Sincerfe appointed for Orkney.
Mr. David Fl earner [Fletcher], whofe patent was for Argyle, refufed it, the
rent being naught. The Commiffioner gave the feaft after the confecration,
as his Majeftie had defrayed liberallie all their charges in England.
Our Bimop,5 the other week, took a Hart to come to Glafgow. The
Chancellor convoyed him, with Montrofe, Lithgow, Calender, and fundry
more noblemen and gentlemen, with a number of our town's folks, both
horfe and foot, with all our bells ringing, brought them to the Tolbooth to
a great collation. He preached on the Sunday, foberly and weell ; but Mr.
Hew Blair, in the afternoon, ridiculoufly worfe than his ordinarie. Some of
my neighbours were earned that the Chancellor and he mould have a col
lation in the Colledge on Monday morning. Againft this I reafoned much ;
but was over-voted, to our great and needlefle charge : two hundred pound
5 Andrew Fairfoull, Archbishop of Glasgow.
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payed not our charge. Mr. John Young made to the Bifhop a fpeech of
welcome, befide my knowledge. The Chancellor, my noble kind fchollar,
brought all in to fee me in my chamber, where I gave them feck and ale the
bed of the towne. The Biftiop was very courteous to me : I excufed my
not ufeing of his ftyles, and profeffed my utter difference from his way;
yet behoved to entreat his favour for our affaires of the Colledge ; wherein
he promifed liberallie. What he will performe tyme will try.
The Councell did call for Mr. Robert Blair fome moneths agoe, but
never yet made him appear ; we think they have no particular to lay to
his charge, but the common quarrell of Epifcopacy, only will not have him
abide in St. Andrewes to be a dayly eye-fore to his Grace.6 Alfo they
called Mr. John Carftares, that he mould not fitt in Glafgow, to preach
after his manner againfl the tymes, to bear him company. Mr. James
Nafmith is likewife written for, as is thought, that the Deanrie of Hamiltone
may vaike for Mr. James Ramfay ; and with him Mr. William Adair of Air,
the two minifters of Kilmarnock, Mr. James Veitch of Machlin, and Mr.
Alexander Blair of Galftoun. The guife now is, the Bifhops will trouble no
man, but the State will punifh feditious minifters. We are in the moft hard
taking we have feen at any tyme. It's the matter of my daily griefe, and I
think it hes brought all my bodily trouble on me, and I feare it ftiall doe me
more harme.
I pray yow haften my book. I intend no other preface than it hes.
I purpofed a dedication for Lauderdaill ; but it feems it now will not be
welcome to him. I writ to him of it, but he did not anfwer : however
that will be the laft ftieet. For verfes here, I intend none : I care no for
vanities. Let me have my count with yow, that I may know what Englifh
moneys to fend yow. My hearty fervice to your dear kind Wife, and all
your fweet children. I reft, after the old faihion,
Your Coufin to ferve yow,
Glafgow, May 12th 1662. R. BAILLIE.
6 James Sharp Archbishop of St. Andrews.
APPENDIX
TO
VOLUME THIRD
OF
BAILLIE'S LETTERS AND JOURNALS.
VOL. III. 3 K
APPENDIX No. I.
LIST OF PAPERS INSERTED IN VOLUME THIRD OF THE MANUSCRIPT
COLLECTION OF BAILLIE'S LETTERS AND JOURNALS.
M.DC.XLVIII.— M.DC.LXI.
1648.
Fol. 9 b. My Sudden Thoughts, on Saturday 12th February 1648, of
the Motion of Warre then in all men's mouths. See page 37
12. The humble Petition of the Prefbytery of Glafgow, unto
the Honourable Eftates of Parliament. This paper was
drawn up by Baillie, who adds, in the margin of the MS.,
that " P. G. [Patrick Gillefpie] changit much of this to
the worfe." , | . . V ; 4?
25. Baillie's " Extemporall Notions," in anfwer to the Queries,
If men who have been aclive in the Engagement fhould
be fufpended from the Lord's Table ? and, If the month
ly maintainance may lawfully be payed, before the firft
Queftion be determined ? 58
26 b. Inftru&ions to the Commiffioner of the Univerfity of Glaf
gow, for the Correfpondence of the Univerfities, ^ _ft 56
28. An Oath of Affociation, in purfuance of the ends of the
Solemne League and Covenant : Baillie adds, " by War[ris-
toun] and Gil[lefpie,]" . . 37
1649.
69. Collee~lion of Letters and Papers from the Commiffioners
fent by the Generall Afiembly and the Eftates of Scot
land to King Charles the Second, at the Hague, in
444 LIST OF PAPERS. 1649.
March 1649. These papers are either printed in the Appen
dix to the present volume, (Nos. LXXIV. — LXXXIII.)
pp. 458 (498) to 521, or hi Mr. Thomson's edition of the
Acts of Parliament, vol. vi. pp. 451-459.
1650.
70. Reafons why his Majeftie's owning the League and Cove
nant for Scotland, cannot be fatiffactorie, 17th April.
71 b. Reafons prefented to the Generall Afiembly, by the Commif-
lioner of the Univerfity of Glafgow, againft the Act of
their late Vintors concerning the Election of Regents.
72 b. The Humble Remonftrance and Petition of the Commiffion
of the Generall AfTembly to the King and Parliament, 29th
November.
74. The King's Speech to the Committee of Eflates, after " the
Start," [llth October.] ." - . * : f.'
Sir James Balfour's Works, vol. iv. p. 118.
74. A few Animadverfions on the Weftern Remonftrance, by
Baillie, addrefled to Mr. Robert Ramfay, but left unfinifhed,
December 1650. "V; ..*
77. The fenfe of the Committee of Eftates upon the Weftern
Remonftrance, Perth, Friday 20th November.
77 b. The fenfe of the Commifiion of the Generall Afiembly upon
the Weftern Remonftrance, 26th November.
77 b. An Anfwer from the Commifiion of the Generall Afiembly
to the Quaerie of the Parliament, [concerning the admifiion
of Engagers to the Army,] 14th December.
78. Act [of the Commiffion] againft thofe that joyne in counfell
or armes, or that complie with the Sectarian Army, 14th
December.
1651.
79- Reafons of Diflent by Baillie and others, from the vote of
the Prefbytery in behalf of Guthrie and Bennet, minifters
of Stirling, llth or 12th March.
1651. LIST OF PAPERS.
85 b. The Commiffion's Confolatorie Letter to Edinburgh. (Baillie
adds in the MS. " by my hand.")
89 b. The Humble Petition of the Commiffion to the King's Majeftie,
and to Parliament againft the promifcuous admiffion of
Malignants to the Army, 18th March,
96. Reafons of DhTent (by Baillie, and others ?) in the Synod of
Glafgow, againft a vote of diffatiffaction with the proceed
ings of the Commiffion, 4th April. . rw
101. My Anfwer to Mr. Robert Ramfay's Quaerie, Whether In-
gadging Officers who have fatiffied the Church, may law-
fullie be employed in our prefent Armie ?
102 b. Two Acts of Affembly, in reference to oppofers of the Publick
Refolutions, 31ft July. tj.. ; * ,. . .,*
103. Lancafhyre's Quaeries Anfwered, by L. Colonell, (the name is
left blank in the MS.) .... ;
104. A true Information of the Affaires of Scotland, by one who
truelie feareth to lie. In Baillie's MS. this paper is faid to
have been " Drawen by Mr. Rutherfoord, and fent in by
Mr. Murecraft to Mr. Gee, in Lancamire, immediatlie be
fore the Kingis March to Worcefter, June 1651." — There
muft, however, be a miftake in this, for the paper itfelf
comes down to May 1652, with a Poftfcript evidently
written in July or Auguft that year. ' . ; . , 379
105. Letter from Mr. Robert Blair to Mr. David Dickfon, 20th
October. . " ''/'• ' ^ .' 'i, ; . 376
Baillie, vol. iii. p. 559-
106. The Provinciall Synod of Lothian's A61 againft the Pro-
tefters Commiffion, 5th November 1651 ; and " Their
[the Protefters] faucie Anfwer," 14th November.
1652.
106 b. The Commiffion's Letter to Mr. John Robertfon, minifter of
Dundee : (Baillie adds, " by my hand.") 7th March.
107. A Breiff Information to Minifters, concerning a prefent ne-
ceffarie Warning againft the Tender. (By Baillie, and in
tended to have been enlarged by Mr. Robert Blair.) 174
446 LIST OF PAPERS. 1652.
112. b. Proteftation againft the Provincial! Aflemblie of Glafgow,
8th Oaober [1651.]
Hail lie, vol. iii. p. 561.
113 b. Memorandum for Caution in Conference about Union with
Remonftrators.
116. Advices and Anfwers from [Mr. Robert Douglas, and others,
in] the Tower of London, to my Queftions, 29th June. 177-184
Baillie, vol. iii. p. 562.
119 b. Proteftation againft the Prefbytery of Glafgow for not choofing
Commiffioners to the AfTembly, 7th July.
121 b. Reafons of a Faft appointed by the Generall Aflembly to be
keeped in all the Congregations of the land, on the 2d and
3d Lord's days of September.
1653.
128 b. The Synod of Louthian's Proteftation againft the Ufurpation
of the Englifli, in April, after Mr. Douglas's returne.
1654.
155. C. The Proteftation and Declaration of the Synod of [the
Refolutioners, at] Glafgow, at their parting from the Anti-
Synod, 4th April.
155 b. D. The Summe of thefe Endeavours ufed for preventing or
healing the breach of the Synod of Glafgow, 4th, 5th,
and 6th April.
159- E. The Aft of Conftitution, 4th April.
159 b. F. An A& for a Synodical Faft, 6th April.
160. G. Letter from the Synod [of the Refolutioners], to the abfent
brethren of the Prefbytery of Air, &c. 6th April.
164. K. Mr. James Ferguflbn's Letter to the Anti- Synod, pre-
fented by Baillie, 12th June. ... 254
168. L. Mr. James Ferguflbn's Overtures to the Anti-Synod : or
Overtures breiflie proponed. . . 254
169. M. 1. The fame Overtures enlarged, and the Equitie of them
Aflerted. 254
1654. LIST OF PAPERS. 447
176. M. 2. My Overtures, entitled, " Overtures for Union in the
Synod of Glafgow and Air, proponed in a Conference by
the Brethren adhearing to the late Generall Affem-
blies ; to the Brethren Protefters againft the famin, 1ft
Augufl 1654." . . V. . \tyj . 254
177 b. N. Scruples againft the Conftitution of the Synod Anfwered. 259
178 b. O. Overtures agreed upon by the Committee to be proponed
to the Anti- Synod. 1. Overtures of Reunion proponed
in conference by the Committee of the Synod of Glafgow
and Air, to their brethren Protefters againft the late
General Aflemblie. 2. Overtures for ordering of Planting.
3. Overtures for ordering of Purging, . . 259
X • *
1655.
208. JJ. Exhortation from the Prefbytery of Edinburgh againft the
Protefters Commiffion, 5th December, . f 301-305
1656.
236. A. Inftructions to Mr. James Sharp, for London, 23d Auguft. 330
Baillie, vol. iii. p. 568.
238. B. Propofalls to be fought by the Protefters from the Lord
Protector, .* T.;' V/ -.' 353
Baillie, vol. iii. p. 573.
243. Q. Paper given in by the Protefters at London to the Lord
Protector and fome Members of Parliament, [for excluding
Engagers, &c. from places of truft.] . . 354
243 b. R. Articles exhibited againft Mr. Patrick Gillefpie, where
fore he ought not to be Principall of the College of Glaf
gow, . . . 363, 364, 372
Baillie, vol. iii. p. 574
1657.
245. Information and Reprefentation to the Lord Protector's
Council, by three of the Referees, againft the Propofalls
referred to them, 14th July: ligned, Lambert Godfrey,
William Cooper, Thomas Manton, . . 355
448 LIST OF PAPERS. 1658.
1658.
249 b. Approbation by the Prefbytery of Edinburgh of " the Decla
ration [printed in May 1658,] for healling the woefull diffe
rences of this Church,"
256 b. The Declaration [Sir George Booth's in name] of the Lords,
Gentlemen, and Freeholders of the once happie Nation
of England. , , . . <^, . 428, 437
265. Overtures for Union or promoving of peace in the Church,
prefented to the Synod of Fife, &c. 4th November.
1660.
267- Letter from King Charles the Second to the Prefbytery of
Edinburgh, 10th Auguft. . . . 410
Wodrow's History, vol. i, p. 13.
268. Letters from the Prefbytery of Edinburgh to Charles the
Second (in anfwer to his Majefty's Letter,) and to the Earl
of Lauderdaill, 20th September. . .' ' . 410
Wodrow's History, vol. i. p. 14.
1661.
274. Form of the Oath taken in Parliament, 1ft January. 463
Act ParL vol. vii. p. 7.
285. Baillie's Anfwer to two Queftions propofed by the Profeffbrs
of Divinity in the Univerfity of Utrecht, (in Latin.) 451
APPENDIX No. II.
ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS CHIEFLY RELATING TO
ECCLESIASTICAL AFFAIRS IN SCOTLAND.
M.DC.XLVIL— M.DC.LXII.
CONTINUED FROM VOL. II. PAGE 516.
LXXII.
MB. GEORGE GILLESPIE'S SPEECH IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
AT EDINBURGH, 6xH AUGUST 1647.
[Wodrow MSS. 4to Vol. xxvi. No. 13. — In the Appendix to the previous volume,
pp. 499-512, are inserted various original Letters of Gillespie, while attending the
Assembly of Divines at Westminster, in the year 1644 to 1647. That other Letters
written by him during that period are still extant, is probable from what Wodrow
states to his friend James Frazer, Esq. London, in a letter dated 22d July 1722. «* As
to MR. G. GILLESPY, (he says) beside what writs are in his printed papers, I have 20
or 30 of his Originall Letters when at the Westminster Assembly ; his Speech, giving
account of his procedure at London to our Generall Assembly on his return ; and I
know his Notes which he took of what passed in the Westminster Assembly, in 12 or
14 volumes, are yet remaining in his Grandchild's hands, a minister here of my ac
quaintance.11 It is not improbable, that Wodrow, writing from recollection, may
have mistaken the precise number of such Letters and Note-books ; for it does not
•appear, from the Catalogue of his Manuscripts, that he possessed more than the twelve
Letters which are printed in this work. But it would be desireable that further in
quiry should be made in other quarters respecting such MSS. The publication of
Gillespie's Notes of the Proceedings of the Westminster Assembly, from two copies in
Wodrow's collection, although these apparently contain only a portion of the 12 or 14
volumes he mentions, would form a most suitable companion to Dr. Lightfoofs Notes,
or " Journal of the Assembly of Divines."
Gillespie returned from London, along with Baillie, to attend the General Assembly at
Edinburgh, August 1647 ; and on the 6th of that month, as our author informs us, —
VOL. III. 3 L
450 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1647.
" He and I made our report to the great satisfaction of all." Baillie's own Speech
on that occasion is already given at p. 10 of this volume ; and GillespieX hitherto
unpublished, is now subjoined from a contemporary MS. ; but not being in his own
hand, the peculiar orthography has not been retained.
George Gillespie was chosen Moderator of the General Assembly in July 1648, while he
was in a declining state of health. Having gone for change of air to his native
place, Kirkaldy, he died there 17th December 1648, in the thirty-fifth year of his
age, to the great loss of the Church of which he was so distinguished an ornament.
He left under his hand, subscribed on the 15th December, a " Testimony against
Association and Complyance with Malignant Enemies of the Truth and Godlinesse :""
Written two days before his death. This, along with a Letter to the same effect
addressed to the Commission of the General Assembly, on the 8th September, are
subjoined to his posthumous Tract, " An Usefull Case of Conscience Discussed and
Resolved, concerning Associations and Confederacies with Idolaters, Infidels, Here-
ticks, or any other known Enemies of Truth and Godlinesse." — Edinburgh, 1649, 4to.]
[MODEHATOR.] SIB, — I HAVE been long defyrous to return here, that I might as
waitt upon my particular charge, fo alfo give a farther account to this Honorable and
learned Aflembly of our employments with the Aflembly of Divines at London.
I "fpeak ingenuoufly, the Lord knows, that I was altogether unfufficient for fo great
a work, and fuch an imployment. My Colleagues indeed, have been both painfull
and fuccefllfull. Only this I would defire to profefs, that with fome uprightnefs of heart
I have ftudied to lay hold on occafions of promoving the work of God there, and the
fervice of his Church in this land. Neither have our labours been altogether without
fuccefs, which we afcrive wholly to the bleffing of God, and therefore defyre, that as
prayers have been made to God in behalf of our Commiflioners and that Aflembly of
Divines, fo thanks may be given in behalf of both for their good fuccefs, and peaceable
fetting about the work wherein the Lord hath employed them.
Ye know we have a£ted in a double capacity according to our Commiffion : We
have gone on in a way of treating with the Committee of Parliaments and Divines
jointly, and have given in many Papers, as concerning the Officers of the Kirk exclud
ing fcandalous perfons from the Kirk Sacrament, the growth of Herefies, and fuch
things, as in your judgment and ours, was defective among them. We have a&ed in
another capacity, debating with and affifting the Aflembly of Divines their debates :
much of their time hath been taken up with the triall of Minifters, for Prefbyteries
not being eftabliflied in that land, Minifters to be admitted in feveral places behoved
to be tryed by them ; yet the heads of our Commiffion have been carryed on to no
fmall meafure of perfe&ion.
The Confeffion of Faith is framed, fo as it is of great ufe againft the floods of
1647. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 451
herefies and errors that overflow that land ; nay, their intention of framing of it was
to meet with all the confiderable Errors of the prefent tyme, the Socinian, Arminian,
Popifh, Antinomian, Anabaptiftian, Independent errors, &c. The Confeflion of
Faith fets them out, and refutes them, fo far as belongs to a Confeflion. This Con
feflion of Faith hath been, to my knowledge, very much commended of them that
had occafion to fee it, even by fome of the Prelatical party too. It is not yet fully
approven by the Houfes of Parliament. The Houfe of Lords have approved it ; the
Houfe of Commons have approved the firft chapter of it, and was going on in con-
flderation of the reft of it, at that tyme when they were taken off by the late commo
tion there, and emergent differences.
For the next Head of our Commiflion, ye know the Directory for Worihip is fettled
long ago by the Parliaments of both Kingdoms. I confefs it is not yet obferved by all
there fo as it ought, yet it. is obferved by many, to the great good of that land. We
fhall only add to that head, the matter of the Pfalms ; all grant that there is a ne-
ceffitie of the change of the old Paraphrafe. This new Paraphrafe was done by a
Gentleman verie able for the purpofe, but'afterward it was revifed by a Committee of
the Aflembly of Divines, according to the originall, and was approven by the whole
Aflembly. The Houfe of Commons hath given it a full approbation. The Houfe of
Lords hath not as yet, many defyring and prefiing other Paraphrafes alfo to be made
ufe of in congregations, if they pleafe. All the Animadverfions fent by you were
taken in due confideration. There are alfo here fome new amendments made by the
Gentleman himfelf : Here is the book, the perfecl copy and ultima euro, of it.
The Third Head was Church Government, which, as it was the moft contraverted of
the reft, fo it hath fuffered manieft obftruftions. There was a prafticall Directory for
Church Government drawn furth without Scriptural Propofitions ; hot becaufe fome
thought a Model of Church Government could not be framed, which were Jure Divino,
there was another Directory for Government drawn up in Propofitions, with Scrip
tural truths, proving the fame. Here they are both.
Now in relation to this head of Church Government, there was a Committee of the
Aflembly and Parliament appoynted to fee if the Diflenting Brethren might been drawn
to agree upon a common rule, according to the word of God, peace of the Kirk, and the
Covenant. There was fome hopes of ane Accommodation, but becaufe of fome difficul
ties, efpecially for that they would have had a liberty of gathering their feperate churches
out of others already conftitute ; upon this it brake up. Only a new motion was made
of it for eftablifhing that Committee of Accommodation before I came away, and their
differences are yet lafting, and their ways, as I conceave, inconfiftent.
Now, the erefting of Prelbyteriall Government hath been oppofed by diverfe parties:
Firft, By thefe that deny all Governments : Thefe are Eraftians. 2dly, By thefe that
would have another form of Government than the Prelbyteriall ; of thofe fome have
452 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1647.
ftudied to get in a moderate Prelacy, and a model of that fort hath been put in the
hands of fome Parliament men, as I have feen, others labours mightily for Indepen
dency. 3. It hath been obftru&ed, and receaved many wounds, by thefe that would
have a Church Government framed in a prudentiall way by the wifdom of the State,
and limited as they lhall think meet, as the Parliament hath ftudied to do in the
poynt of fufpenfion from the Sacrament. They have made a great deal of reftriftions
in that buffinefs, which the Affembly and godly miniftry there dare not condefcend to in
confcience ; whereupon the Affembly, fticking to that that they conceive agreeable to the
truth, they prefeuted a Petition accordingly. The Petition was caften, being con
ceived a breach of priviledge. Among other incongruities, they urged a double
number of Ruling Elders at leaft to that of minifters, and if they pleafe, four tymes
more, fo that all what minifters do fay, may be made null by the major part of Ruling
Klders. To this we gave in our Reafons to the contrarie. It wes upon the occafion
of this prudential modell, that the Nine Queries were fent to the Aflembly by the
Houfe of Commons, that the Aflembly might be put to it for a particular model of
Church Government, which was expe&ed by many, they could never doe it, and fo
this might be ane ground to go on in their intended prudentiall way. Thefe Nine
Queries, as I am very confident they may have a full and fatiffa&ory anfwer from Scrip
ture, fo I believe they [would] have gotten ere now, were it not the Aflembly had been
neceffarily diverted by other things, put in their hands by the Parliament. There is a
fourth impediment that did hinder much the Prefbyterial Government, becaufe there
be many that would be content of it, fo being it were with Liberty of Confcience that,
if they pleafed, they might come under it, otherways not. This is become a common
plea, not only to Sectaries, but alfo to the Prelatical party : Doftor Taylor, the
King's chaplain, hes written a large book for the defence of Liberty of Confcience.
The laft Head of our Comraiffion was the Catechifm. The framing of this the
Aflembly have been very laborious in, and have foiind great difficulty how to make it
full, fuch as might be expefted from an Aflembly, and, upon the other part, how to
condefcend to the capacity of the common and unlearned. Therefore they are a-making
two diftincl Catechifms, a Short and plaine one for thefe, and a Larger one for thofe
of underftanding. They have had no time yet to do any thing in the latter, bot here
is the copy of the Greater, which is almoft compleat.
Now, to add to thefe particulars the Dangers threatening religion, as affairs now
ftands, which are very great ; and though the wifdome of this Aflembly can very well
judge of them, without great information; yet, iince ye are pleafed to defyre ane
accompt of affairs there, I fhall fhortly exprefs what we conceave to be the greateft
dangers hindering the advancement of the defyred Reformation in that land, and thefe
we conceive are growing greater, when we were in expectation they were growing
lefs than before. The difeafe was in the body ; now it is broken furth in the fpirits,
1647. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 453
before the groffe humors were purged away, and fo the danger is double. There is a
conjunftion of interefts among thofe that have been averfe from the Covenant, and
thofe that have beenayming [at] a Reformation of religion hitherto, the Prelatical party
and Independent. There is a great deal of indeavour ufed to unite them, although, I
believe, that by this tyme they fee that their interefts and principles are inconfiftible.
2. A fecond danger there is, which needs must be great, becaufe there is a refidiva-
tion which is worfe than the firft difeafe ; that which hath been built up is now a-caft-
ing down, and that \vhich hath been a-cafting down is a-building up. The Service-
Book, which we thought had been buried, is now allowed at Court, and the fequeftrat
Minifters are by this means animated to intrude themfelves in their former places, and
fundry are receaved.
8. Before, our difference was with the Prelates and Se&aries, fo much as we knew,
only concerning Church-Government, fcarce imagining other differences ; but now they
are grown to that, that there is not an article of the Chriftian Faith but it is contraverted ;
and fome have drunk in that principle, The more fundamentall the poynt denyed or con
traverted, the more it ought to be tollerated, becaufe being the more remote from fence
and reafon, and fo the denyers or affirmers of it ought the lefs to be controlled.
4 As the Solemn League and Covenant was juftly conceaved to be a fovereign
remedy against the former evills, fo when that is caft afide, it muft make the dangers
the more and greater : many reftife to fubfcrive that League and Covenant, and it is
no wonder, feeing it hath not a civill fandtion urging it upon the people. The King
hath not agreed to it. The Parliament, though it hath enjoyned the fubfcription of it
in all the Kingdom, yet there is no penalty charged upon the not-fubfcrivers of it ; and
fo by many is not only flighted, hot alfo it is written againft, of late, by the whole Univer-
fity of Oxford, which hath not as yet gotten an anfwer, bot I hope it fhall fhortly.
5. The prefent commotions there makes the caufe to be in a great hazard. Now there
is a divifion between them that have taken the Covenant, as there was formerly be
tween them that took it and them that took it not. As for the Army, it is true they do
profefs, in their publick papers, that it is not their intention to oppofe Prefbyterial
Government : They take God to witnefs their intention is not againft the Covenant.
What is the intentio mentis we know not, or the intentio operantis, bot intentio
operis looks far otherways. Neverthelefs of the forementioned dangers, yet, on the other
part, there is hope in Ifraell concerning this thing ; We want not our grounds of en
couragement for hoping better things.
1. The hand of God that hath done verie great things for us already, gives us ftrong
hope to believe that He will do great things ftill ; and I have heard many godly both
minifters and people there fay, That if the Kirk of Scotland which hath had fo many great
proofs of ane Almighty hand working for them, Ihould diftruft the thorow bearing of this
work, their fin were greater than of any others. Now, as God's honour is engaged in
454 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1647.
it, fo hath he given many hearts to pray for the carrying on of the work, and, to my cer
tain knowledge, affuredly to believe, the full fatiffaftion of their prayers, and a happy
clofure of the work.
2. Next, we have grounds of confidence from the petitions of many, efpecially of
London : Ye may underftand very well the hearts of many by the petitions that have
been occafionally from tyme to tyme publifhed.
3. There is hope from that that is put in execution already : You know there is no
government owned by the Parliament but the Prefby terial ; although they have not come
up fo far as the Aflembly of Divines have holden forth to them, yet that is the only
government owned by them, and is put in execution in fundry places in England.
They have Claflical Congregations, Prefbyteries, and Synods, in London ; and elfewhere
there are beginnings. There is a parochial elderlhip in Yarmouth and other fome in
Suffolk : they have receaved appeals from parochial elderfhips, as the fuperior judica-
tory from the inferior. There is fo much done as is more than a day of fmall things ;
fo much as we would have greatly accounted oi, if we might have hoped for it ten years
ago, when we were a-coming out of Egypt.
4. There is encouragement to us, from the great difcovery of the ways of Sectaries :
Many who by their being very plaufible gained ground before, are now down in the
opinions of many, and their army, though now they profper very much, yet have loft
very many of their friends by their carriage of late, being fully perfuaded their ways are
not of God.
5. From the Aflembly of Divines : God hath blefled thav .^flemblie very much, and
they do refolve, that whatfoever others fhall do, or whoever dangers or fears (hall
arife, that they fhall not fuffer themfelves to be led away from the profecution of that
Solemn Covenant, and the ends of it; that they will adhere to that Confeflion of
Faith, Dire&ory of Government and Worfhip, which, according to the written word,
they have refolved upon.
And truly, Sir, they have defyred me to affure this AfTembly of their folid refolution
of adhering to Prefbyteriall Government, and the other ends of our Commiflion from
this Church. I fpeak with warrant from the Prolocutor of the Aflembly, as is clear in
this paper, which, for my memory's fake in the premifes, I have here, being fubfcribed
by the Prolocutor and the Clerk ; And withall, their defire was to make their excufe for
their not giving anfwer to diverfe Letters from the Parliament and Aflembly of Scot
land ; for that they being only Aflembled for giving advice by the Parliament, not
being a National Aflembly as you are, they were loath to interrupt the Parliament, whofe
warrant they behoved to procure, the Parliament being now otherways moft ferioufly
imployed. I fhall only add, friends in England do blefle God for this Aflembly's writ-
ting at fuch a feafonable tyme, and experts fo much fhall come furth from yow as fhall
refrefh their faddened hearts, and advance the oppofed work of Reformation.
1648. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 455
LXXIII.
ATTESTATION IN FAVOUR OF LIEUTENANT-GENERAL BAILLIE,
22o AUGUST 1648.
[The following paper forms a sequel to General Baillie's Vindication of his conduct
at Kilsyth, and Preston, (Volume 2d, pages 417-425,) which he addressed by
special request to " his cousin" Mr. Robert Baillie. — In addition to the few notices
there given, it may be mentioned, that Lieut-General WILLIAM BAILLIE of Letham,
was the son of Sir William Baillie of Lamington, by Mrs. Home, but born during
the life of his father's first wife, Margaret Maxwell, Countess of Angus. In order
to legitimate his son, Sir William, after the death of the Countess, married Mrs.
Home ; but this proved ineffectual, his son having failed in an attempt made in 1641, to
have the settlement of the estate of Lamington reversed, and himself declared to
be " the righteous air." (See Lamington family, Nisbetfs Heraldry, vol. ii. App. p. 131.
General Baillie, in early life went to Sweden, and served under Gustavus Adolphus.
In 1632, in a " List of the Scottish Officers that served his Majesty of Sweden," we
find him styled " William Baily, Colonell to a Regiment of foote of Dutch.1'1 He
returned to Scotland in 1638, and was employed by the Covenanters on many im
portant occasions. In the unfortunate " Engagement," or secret treaty between the
Royalists in Scotland and England, Baillie was appointed Lieutenant-General of foot,
in the army under the command of James Duke of Hamilton. The fatal result of the
expedition into England, towards the end of July 1648, is well known. From the
accounts collected by Bishop Burnet, (Dukes of Hamilton, p. 357, &c.) we may infer,
that the defeat of the Scotish forces by Cromwell at Preston, on the 17th August, was
in a great measure owing to the contradictory orders issued by the Duke as General,
and the Earl of Callander, as second in command ; and that no portion at least of
the blame could be thrown upon Baillie. The capitulation entered into is thus men
tioned by Oliver Cromwell in his letter to the English Parliament, 20th August 1648 : —
" The next morning the enemy marched towards Warrington, made a stand at a Pass
near Winaick. We held them in some dispute until our army was come up, they
maintaining the Pass with great resolution for many hours ; but our men, by the
blessing of God, charged very hard upon them, beat them from their standing, where
we killed about a thousand of them, and took (as we believe) about two thousand
prisoners, and prosecuted them home to Warrington Town, where they possessed the
Bridge. As soon as we came thither, I received a message from Lieut-General
Bailey, desiring some Capitulation ; to which I yielded, and gave him these terms :
456 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1648.
That he should surrender himself and all his officers and soldiers prisoners of war,
with all his arms, ammunition, and horses, upon quarter for life ; which accordingly
is done. Here are took about four thousand compleat arms, and as many prisoners ;
and thus you have their Infantry ruined." (Rushworth, vol. viii. p. 1238.)
This Capitulation may be considered as presenting the termination of General Baillie's
military career. How long he survived is uncertain ; but a few words may be added
as to his family. His eldest son James Baillie was born 20th October 1629- He
married Joanna Forrester, daughter of George first Lord Forrester, on whose death,
in 1654, without male issue, he succeeded to the title and property, as Lord Forres
ter. His affairs, however, became much involved ; his Lady, as Baillie reports, (supra
p. 367,) died of a broken heart, about the year 1657 ; and he himself closed a pro
fligate life in a tragical manner, being murdered in his garden at Corstorphin, 26th
August 1679) by Christian Hamilton, wife of James Nimmo, and a grand-daughter of
the first Lord Forrester. (See Fountainhalfs Hist. Notices, p. 233. Mr. Sharpens Note
in Kirkton's Hist. p. 182, and New Statist. Account, Edinburghshire, p. 212.) Gene
ral Haillie's second son, William, born 12th December 1632, married another daughter
of Lord Forrester, and on his brother's death in 1679, he succeeded as third Lord
*
Forrester, but did not assume the title. He died in May 1681, and his son William,
after an interval of 17 years, claimed his right of patent, in 1698, and became fourth
'Lord Forrester. (See Douglas's Peerage, by Wood, vol. i p. 602.)]
At Warrington, 22d August 1648.
WE Under Subfcrybers doe hereby declare upon our faith and honour, that We, with
the rest of the Officers and Souldiers then present, did advyfe LmuT.-GEN. BAYLIE
to accept of the under-written Capitulation, and consented to the famyn, before ever
it was figned.
At Warrington-Bridge, 19th August 1648.
IT is aggreit betwixt LiEU*'-GEN. CROMWELL and LiEU*'-GEN. BAYLIE, that all armes,
ammunition, collours, and other furniture and provifion of warre, be dely vered without
imbattellment to Lieu^-Gen. Cromwell, or to whom he fhall appoint. That Lieu'.-
Gen. Baylie, with all Officers and Souldiers with him, ihall be prifoners of warre, and
that with the confent of all the faid Officers and Souldiers.
That they who fhall foe rander themfelffes, the faid Lieu*.-General Cromwell fhall
aflure them all of faiff lyves, goods, and what elfe belongs to them, except horses, to
be delyvered after they are difpofed of, for their better accomodation ; and in the mean-
tyme to be furnifhed with horfes for their journeys.
O. CROMWELL.
W. BAYLIE.
1648. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 457
WE doe lykewayes declair upon our faith and honour, thatthefe Keafons following,
were the motives of this appointment : —
1. We were abandoned by all our Horfemen.
2. The number of our Foot then with us did not exceed 26 or 2700.
3. Scarce the halfe of them had keeped their armes.
4. Since the 13th of Auguft they had received hot 2 pound of vi&uals a-peice.
5. There wes no ammunition at all amongft them.
6. When by Lieu^-Gen. Baylie's ordour they were brought from the open field
nearer the Bridge of Waringtone, for the defence of the fame, into ane inclofure, the
whole collours were not accompanied with fcarce 250 foldiours; the reft left their
armes and ran to the Muir, from whence no perfuafion of Officers could bring them
until! the Capitulation wes clofed.
7. Before Lieu^-Gen. Baylie had brought up the reare of all that were uncutt off, my
Lord Callander had given ordour to diverfe officers, to witt, to Lieut--Col. Kerr, Major
Enox, and Capt. Rutherfoord, as Kerr deponeth, to prepare for a baricade to the Bridge,
and flopping of all the ftraggleing foot at the Bridge, till they could fee what beft appoint
ment they could make for themfelffes. Likewayes Lieu^-Gen. -Middletone did advyfe
Col. Dowglas, by Collingtoun, and by mouth, Col. Turner, to caufe barricad the Bridge-
end and guard it weell, and to tell Lieu^-Gen. Baylie, when he fhould come up, to make
the beft appoyntment he could for himfelff and the reft of the foot. The lyke commif-
fion he gave to Major Wm. Dowglas, and defyred that the reft of his horfemen might
be fent him up from our reere. (Sis subscribitur).
Col. DOWGLAS. Lieu*--Col. ALEX'. HOUME. Lieu*--Col. JOHNSTONE. Lieu*--
Col. ANDREW KERR. Major W. DOWGLAS. Col. WM. BUNTEN. (and the
reft of the Officers in the field, who rode not away with the horfemen.)
INFORMATION WOULD BE HAD OF THE REASONS :
1. Why the Horfe quartered, ever after we went from Kendale, fo farr from the Foot ?
2. Why the Horfe drew not nearer the Foot after their parties were beat in unto
Blackburne ? This being made known to the Generall Officers there, on Tuyfday in
the night.
3. Why we left Prefton-Muir, and our proviiion there ?
4. Why we left our quarter above Waltone, and our whole ammunition, and did not
rather make our Horfemen come up ?
5. Why the refolution at Standifh Muir to fight wes altered ?
6. Why in the march from Wiggen, there wes not left fuch a reare-guard of Horfe
as wes requifite for the retreat of the Foot ? for want whereof the moft of them were
ruyned.
7. Why at Waringtone the Horfemen did abandon the remnant of the Foot ?
VOL. in. 3 M
458 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1649.
LXXIV.
LETTER FROM THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TO KING CHARLES THE SECOND. 7ra FEBRUARY 1649.
[This and the next eight articles of the Appendix, are given from Baillie's MS.]
[Charles the First was executed on the 30th January 1649. The Parliament of Scot
land, immediately upon receiving intelligence of this event, proclaimed Charles the
Second King, on Monday the 5th February ; and, as Baillie writes to Spang, (supra
p. 66,) " We have sent the bearer, a worthy gentleman, to signify so much to his
Majeftie at the Hague : We purpose speedily to send a Honourable Commission from all
Estates." The following is the letter of which Sir Joseph Douglas was the bearer ;
and which may serve to introduce some of the subsequent articles. Baillie himself
was one of the Commissioners who were sent on the part of the Church ; and his
private letters, written while in Holland, have already been inserted in this volume,
pp. 84-90. See also the preliminary note to No. LXXXIII.]
•
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTIE,
As we did allwayes acknowledge your Royall Father his juft power and greatnefs,
and powred forth our fupplications and prayers to God on his behalf, and doe abhorre
thefe unparaleiled proceedings of Sectaries again ft his Majeftie's perfone and life ; fo we
doe willingly and cheerfullie acknowledge your Majeftie's moft juft right of fucceffion to
reigne as King over thefe Kingdomes, and doe refolve, in the power of the Lord's
ftrength, to continue in prayer and fupplication for your Majeftie, that yow may feare
the great and dreadfull name of the Lord your God, and reigne in righteoufnefs and
equitie, and the Lord's people under yow live a quiet and peaceable life in all godlinefle
and honeftie.
Thefe Kingdomes now for many years pad have been involved in many calamities
and confufions, by which the Lord's work hath been obftru&ed and retarded, and the
blood of his people flied, as water fpilt upon the ground, and we cannot but look upon
the counfells of the ungodly as a maine caufe of all thefe evills. It hath been the cun
ning of the Popifli Praelaticall and Malignant partie to traduce Prefbyteriall Govern
ment, and the Solemn League and Covenant as definitive to monarchic, and with fo
much witt and induftrie they manage thefe calumnies, that your Royall Father, to our
exceeding griefe, was keept at a diftance in his judgement from thefe things, that doe
much concerne the kingdome of Jefus Chrift, the peace and fafetie of thefe Kingdomes,
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 459
and the eftabliftiing of the King's throne, and was eftranged in his affe&ion from them
who'moft tendered his perfon and authoritie.
And feeing the Lord now calls your Majeftie to fucceed to ane of the greateft and
moft important imployments upon the earth, which is much heightened by the pre-
fent condition, it is our earneft defire unto your Majeftie, in the name of the Lord
Jefus, whofe fervants we are, that ye would not only fhut your ears againft calum
nies, hut avoid the companie, and fhun the counfells of the ungodlie, who ftudie to in
volve your Majeftie?s puhlick intereft, and that which concerns the prefervation of your
royall perfon, and the eftablifhing of your throne, with their private intereft and ends
and to make your loyall fubje£ts odious, that they only may be gracious. And that
your Majeftie would avoid all the temptations and fnares that accompanie youth, and
humble yourfelfe under the mighty hand of God, and feek him early, and labour to
have your fenfes exercifed in his word, and that your Majeftie would eftablifh Prefby-
teriall government, and allow and enjoyne the Solemn League and Covenant, and im-
ploy your Royall power for promoveing and advanceing the work of uniformitie in reli
gion, in all your Majeftie's dominions. It is by the Lord who bears rule in all the
kingdomes of the fons of men, that kings do reign, and whatever carnall policie fuggeft
to the contrarie, there is nothing can contribute fo much for fecureing the kingdom in
their hand, as being for his honour, and ftudying to doe his will in all things. There
fore we know not fo fpeedie and fure a way for fecureing of Government in your Ma-
jeftie's perfon and pofteritie, and difappointing all the defignes of enemies both on the
right hand and on the left.
We truft it fhall yet afterwards be no griefe of heart to your Majeftie to hearken
unto us in thefe things, (we have hithertill obtained mercy of God to be conftant to
our principles, and not to declyne to extreams, to own the way either of Malignants or
Sectaries, and we were faithfull and free with your Royall Father, would God he had
hearkened to our humble advyce.) The Lord grant unto your Majeftie wifdome to
difcerne the tymes, and to make ufe of the opportunitie of doeing acceptable fervice to
God, and engageing the hearts and affections of your people in the beginning of your
Majeftie's reign e, by condefcending to thefe neceflarie things ; fo fhall the Lord blefle
your Majeftie's perfone, eftablifh your throne, and our fpirits, and the fpirits of all his
people in thefe lands fhall, after fo many yeares of afflidion, be refrefhed and revived,
and incouraged not only to pray for your Majeftie, and to praife God in your behalfe ;
but in their places and ftations, by all other fuiteable means, to endeavour your honour
and happinefs, that your Majeftie may reigne, in profperitie and peace, over thefe King-
domes, which is the earneft defyre and prayer of
Your Majeftie's loyall fubjefts and humble Servants,
THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE GENERALL ASSEMBLIES,
Edinburgh, 7th February 1649.
460 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1649-
LXXV.
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CHURCH
SENT TO THE KING'S MAJESTIE. MARCH 1649-
1. You fhall be carefull to try, fo far as yow can, what is the King's inclination and
difpofition, what are his principles, who are his Counfellors in whom he moft confides,
and whofe counfells he moft followes ; efpeciallie, how he is grounded in Religion, what
countenance he gives, or what affe£Uon he bears to Prelacie, the Service Book, and the
government, worfhip and ceremonies that were in the Kirk of England ; and what forme
of worfhip he ufes in his familie ; what minifters he hath with him ; whether he feeks
God in private or not.
2. Yow fhall exprefle our deep fenfe and deteftation of the proceedings of the Sec
taries againft religion and government, and of their proceedings againfl the perfone and
life of his Majeftie's Father.
3. Yow fhall reprefent unto him the affection of the Kirk of Scotland unto Monarchic,
and the continuance of the fame, as in the perfone of his Father, fo in his perfone and
prifleritie.
4. Yow fhall fhow him how Prefbyteriall government is not only confident with,
bot helpfull to Monarchic ; and to take off calumnies to the contrarie.
5. Yow fhall reprefent unto him our faithfull dealling with his Father, and our con-
tinueing conftant in our principles in reference to religion and government, without de-
clyning unto the extreams either of Malignants or Sectaries.
6. Vow fhall in a difcreet way, at h'tt opportunities, reprefent unto him the fumes of his
houfe, becaufe of oppreffion to the work and people of God, and perfuade him thereupon
to humble himfelf under the Lord's hand, that the guilt thereof may be taken away.
7. Yow fhall labour to informe him of things contained in the Nationall Covenant,
and League and Covenant, and the true grounds of ours and England's entering there
unto, and perfuade him to fubfcribe thefe Covenants, and to enjoyne the fame, and to
advance the work of Uniformitie, and eftablifh Prefbyteriall government, the Diredorie
of worfhip, and Confeflion of Faith, and Catechifme, in all his Majeflie's dominions.
And yow fhall fhow him how that this only and effedluall way for fecureing Reli
gion, eftablifhing his throne, and fettleing and fecureing the union and peace of thefe
Kingdomes.
8. Yow fhall take occafion to fhow him that Prelacie was a mere ufurpation in Scot
land, and never eftablifhed by a law. That he is as yet under no oath nor obligation, as
his Father wa?, for Prelacie in England.
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 461
9. Yow fhall labour to perfwade him to lay afide the Service Book, if he ufe it in
his familie, and to conforme himfelf to the pra6tife of the Kirk of Scotland.
10. Yow fhall effeftuallie and feriouflie reprefent to him the evills of the counfells
and defignes of the Popifh, Prelaticall, and Malignant partie, and labor to perfuade
him to forfake their counfells and courfes, and to cleave to thofe that are ftraight for
Religion and Government, and will be faithfull both to God and him.
11. Yow fhall fhew him that we look upon the former idolatrie of his Mother as a
maine caufe of the evills, both of finn and of punifhment, that have afflifted thefe King-
domes. And thereupon feriouflie to reprefent unto him the evill and danger of Popiih
marriage, and labour to difwade him from marrying any that is not of the Reformed
religion.
12. Yow fhall labour to perfwade him to hearken to the defyre both of Church and
State, as that which will fecure Religion, eftablifh his Throne, fatiffie his People, and
fettle Peace.
LXXVL
LETTER FROM THE COMMISSION OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY
TO DR. FREDERICK SPANHEIM.
[This letter, as well as the next, was the composition of Baillie. He introduces them
both as being of his draught. Spanheim was Professor of Divinity at Leyden.]
REVERENDE VIR,
Humanitas tua vere fingularis, quam expertes abunde fe funt profeffi fratres a nobis ad
Synodum Weftmonafterienfem deputati in fuo ad Hollandos diverticulo, efficit ut noftros
jam ad Regiam Majeftatem in Hollandia delegates tuae curae fidenter audeamus com-
mendare. In magnis cum Rex turn res tota Britannica in praefentiarum hcerent an-
gufliis. Attollimus oculos ad Dominum, in quo noftrum auxilium et unica fpes fixa re-
manent. Expe&amus a fratribus tranfmarinis perfeverantiam in fuis ad Deum pro nobis
precibus, omnibusque qua fe dat occafio charitatis officiis et mutuis operis, ut Chrifti
Regnum, quod mancipia Satanse cundlis infernis machinis labefa&ari ftudent, fartum
te£tum confervetur, et incrementum capiat. Non laborabimus, fcienti, ut putamus, com-
monftrare quae fit rerum noftrarum hodie conditio. Si quae, hac in parte, dominum late-
ant, docebunt quam voles prolixe coram quos mittimus fratres. Abs te, Reverende Vir,
obnixe petimus, ut pro magna tua prudentia, et audtoritate qua in Aula Araufionenfi ac
Reginae Bohemias polles, velis pro virili promovenda curare quse Sereniffimo Regi per
deputatos fratres humillima poftulata et faluberrima confilia deferenda commiiimus.
462 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1649.
Quam hie navaveris Deo, Regi, Ecclefiae, et nobis operam, faufla fit et foelix, romunerabi-
tur certe ccelitus Jehova ; et nos gratiflima mente repofitam confervabimus.
Tui in Domino Fratres amantiffimi a National!
Synodo Deputati, ac, omnium nomine,
Uabantur Edinburgi, pridie Kal. R. DOUGLABSIUS. Conventus Moderator.
Martii 1649
LXXVII.
LETTER FROM THE SAME TO DR. ANDREW RIVET.
CLARISSIMO VIRO AC FRATRI INCHRISTO DILECTISSIMO, DOMINO
ANDREW RIVETO, IN ACADEMIA LUGDUNENSI SACR^E
THEOLOGIZE PROFESSORI.
REVERENDISSIME, DILECTISSIME F RATER,
EXPLORATUS a multis jam annis tuus in domum Dei zelus, compertumque de re-
formatis omnibus eccleis ftudium efficit, ut quis fit rerum apud nos in praefentia ftatus
per fratres noftros dile&iflimos tuse prudentiae confidenter aperire, et a tua pietate fra-
terorum auxilium expeftare non dubitemus. Probe novifti, fat fcimus, quam at roc i a,
quam diuturna mala, Regna haec et Ecclefias jamdudum vexent. Maximum Temper
bonorum hie omnium defiderium fuit per profperam pacem imponendi tandem aliquando
finem duriffimis calamitatibus, quibufcum integro jam decennio, et quod excurrit, con-
fli£tati fumus ; fed ecce nova Temper tempeftas, prioribus foevior incumbens, rejecit in
novum malorum mare. Dederant noftri quantam maximam valebant operam, ut aequie
conditionibus thronus, priftinufque fplendor, et quaecunque defiderari ullo jure pote-
rant, Regi reftituerentur ; fed male feriati fufurrones, calami tatum noftrarum vel primi
au&ores, vel afiidui fautores, nunquam deiinebant peflime confultum principem fuis arti-
bus perdere. Status Regni, ut primum infauftum de Patris nece (quod facinus toto pec-
tore execramur) nuncium accepere, quam fieri potuit maxima folennitate abfentem fta-
tim Filium edifto publico Regem declararunt, et Literas egregiaa fnae voluntatis plenas
tarn terra quam mari perfcripferunt ; Legates fuos Londino veftram Hagam proficifci
juflerunt, et alios iftius Legationis focios hinc amandarunt, qui humillima fua poflulata,
et faluberrima confilia novo Regi communicarent. Id quod ante alia in praefentiarum
folicitos habet, tenella eft Regis adolefcentis indoles, licet optimae fpei, quern circumfede-
runt jam multi piorum in utroque regno confiliis vel aperti femper hoftes, vel non
fatis conftantes amici : hoc eft, Reverende Vir, in quo tuam operam induflriamque nobis
neceflariam arbitramur. Scimus quo zelo flagres erga Dei veritatcm, et quo tenearis de-
fiderio videndi noftram Britanniam in puritate religionis, et jufta legum libertate, fir-
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 463
maque pace ftabilitam : fcimus quantopere abhorreat tua aequanimitas ab eorum hominum
perverfitate, qui vel fuis erroribus pervicaciter adhaerentes, vel fuis privatim compendiis
promovendis, aut reparandis difpendiis inhiantes, incautum regem in praecipitia fecum
abducere, totaque regna, ac integras nationales Ecclefias novarura ruinarum faxis illidere
flocci non faciunt. Hie eft ubi magnum Legatis noftris a Diabolo certamen metuimus, et
ubi tuam pietatemexoratamcupimus,ut veils non gravate confilio et audoritate tua,quibus
plurimum iftic locorum vales, adefie fratribus quos illuc delegavimus ad res omnino maxi-
mas procurandas, quam non noftram tantum tarn Regni quam Ecclefise, fed et totius
infulae, regis infuper regiaeque familiae falutem, imo vero reformatarum omnium Eccle-
fiarum emolumentum, unice fpe&are certiffimum habemus. Exiftimamus Aurafiae Prin-
cipem, et regiam ipfius conjugem, Reginamque Bohemiae, flectendi tenellum Regis ani-
mum ad fana confilia non mediocri facultate pollere. Scimus quanta meritiffime gratia
apud iftorum omnium Serenitates valeas : quantumcunque tuae prudentiae vifum fuerit
piiffimo huic operi incumbere fperamus Dominum in fuo die remuneraturum, nos certe
gratiffima Temper mente recognituros pollicemur.
Tui in Domino fratres amantiffimi, a National!
Synodo Deputati, et, omnium nomine,
ROBKRTUS DOUGLASSIUS, Conventus Moderator.
Dabantur Edinburgi, pridie Kal.
Martii 1649.
LXXVIII.
BAILLIE'S LETTER TO RIVET.
[A BLANK IS LEFT IN THE MS. FOR THIS LETTER; BUT NO COPY OF IT HAS BEEN DISCOVERED.]
RIVETS ANSWER TO BAILLIE.
REVERENDO, CLARISSIMO, ET DOCTISSIMO VIRO D. ROBERTO BAL^SO,
S. THEOL. D. ET PROFESSORI, ET VERBI DIVINI FIDELI
ADMINISTRO, NUNC INTER NATIONALIS, DELE.
GATOS DEGENTI HAG.E COMITIS, S. P.
REVERENDS VIR, ET MIHI OBSERVANDE IN CHRISTO FRATER,
MEMINI probe quantum debuerim ab o£lennio, et ultra, humanitati et benevolentiae
omnium veftrum, quorum Londini confortio et communicatione fum ufus, tua imprimis,
qua etiam Hagae Comitis, fed, vobis feftinantibus, ad breve tempus fum fruitus. Filius
meus, qui inter Principis domefticos Hagae vivit, monuerat quidem veniffe ex veftra
Scotia delegates, qui agnitum Regem falutarent, et cum eo agerent de juftis condition-
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ibus ei proponendis, ut Regnum apud fe inchoaret, et inter eos efle quofdam eximios Dei
fervos ; fed eorum nomina non mihi indicaverat, alioquin ego te faltem praeveniffem,
et veterem inter nos confuetudinem renovafTem ; quod nunc facio, tuis literis, et noftri
Spangii fratris & amici conjundiffimi, admonitus. Ego certe, fi ab initio accepiflem
literas, quas a celeberrima Synodo ad me mififtis, et credidifTem me aliquid pofle, ut
aliqua ratione negotitim veftrum promoverem, nihil me retinuiflet quo minus ad vos
excurriflem, prsefertim hac anni fatis favente et non incommoda tempeftate. Sed cum
mihi fuiflet nunciatum Celfiflimum Principem meum pronum fatis ex feipfo efle ad res
veftras promovendas, et Regi Sereniflimo confilia omnia fuggerenda quibus fle&eretur ut
fe fiilri fuorum apud vos fubditorum committeret, quod etiam D. Spangii nomine fuerat
confirmatum, atque ita apud eum neceflarium non efle meum interventum, fubftiti hic»
meque ad preces converti, ut Deus veftrse negotiationis eveutum ad optatum finem diri-
geret. Non fine angore animi intelligo alia praevaluifle confilia, et Regem efle in procindhi,
ut ex Gallia in Hiberniam fe conferat, et per nos etiam hie brevi iter fuum inftituat ;
qua? via mihi videtur ad perniciem Regis et regnorum, reformatae in illis ecclefise, tendere,
et indicium efle iram Dei nondum deferbuiffe, qui lure confilia finat prevalere. Vices
etiam veftras doleo, et laboriofee peregrinationis parum felicem fucceflum, nifi quod
perceperitis bouorum omnium in his regionibus benevolentiam veftris rebus faventium,
\\'<\ efficaciam deefle, cum folius Dei fit animos regum infle&ere ad meliora confilia.
Scribo ad Reverendiflimos Synodi veftrae Paftores ; eis gratias maximas ago pro fuo de me
judicio, et omnia defero quae a me expe&ari poflunt in communi Ecclefiarum caufa, quod
apud te, Vir Reverende, iterum profiteer; tibique, et D. D. Collegis, felicem et fuuftum
ad veftros reditum, et meliorem eventum rerum veftrarum voveo, quam qui expec-
tari debeat a confiliis eorum, qui non folum a came et fanguine pendent, fed qui,
anWlibus etiam fuis indulgentes, animos gerunt adverfus Dei caufam exacerbates, quos
vel fleftat Deus, vel reprimat. Interim me precibus tuis commendo, et mearum viciffim
fubfidum vobis promitto, tibique omnia profpera voveo. Vale.
Tuus omni officio et afFeftu in Chrifto,
ANDREAS RIVETCS.
Br»dae Brabantorum, 5 Kal. Junias CID.IOC.XLIX.
LXXIX.
.
MEMORANDUM FROM A FRIEND TO REPRESENT TO THE
QUEEN.
[" This I intended (says Baillie) to have fent with my Lord Percie, but did not
being offended with the untowardnes of his difcours."]
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. (465) 505
1. THAT the Kings refufeing to take the Covenant, and to give affureance for his
confent to Ads of Parliament, injoining it in England and Ireland, feems definitive to
his affaires, for it alienats from him his greateft ftrength, the hearts of Scotland and the
Prefbyterians of England, more than from his Father, who had more impediments with
in his owne hreaft to take the Covenant than the King can now have.
2. The Scots and Englifli Covenanters will never forfake that Covenant, nor joyne
armes with any of the Anti-Covenanting partie, for any perfuafion, for any terror, as
they love God and their foul, and will not be perjured ; to this they are fixed.
3. The King's joyning in that Covenant, joines together, for his fervice, not only the
whole Covenanting party in the three Kingdomes, bot alfo the moft of the Malignant,
who have no fcruple of confcience to enter in that Covenant, and will have no fcruple
of honour if the King were into it.
4. The uniting of all his fubjefts of the three Kingdomes for the King againft the
Sectaries, is neceffary, the only vilible meanes for it is his cordiall joyning in that
Covenant ; his refufeing of that meanes is clearly to keep all his friends devyded
amongft themfelves, and to force the moft of them to fitt ftill and doe nothing for him.
5. Upon this diflatiffa&ion, the Scots and the Englifti Covenanters fitting ftill, the
King muft putt himfelfe upon ftrangers and his Father's broken party, whofe firft fervice
muft be to overthrow the Prefbyterians in the three kingdomes, who gladly would have
been ferviceable friends, but when once their blood is ihedd by the hands of ftrangers,
and their former enemies the Malignant party, they may turne defperate. In the meane
tyme, the Sectaries gett time to fettle their new Republick.
6. It is believed, generally, that the King's obftinacy comes not from himfelfe, bot his
Counfellours, and that they durft not hold him on fo apparently deftruftive wayes, if
they had not warrant, and encouragement from fome other elfewhere.
7. That it is marvelled what can be the true ground of the ftick. The Popifh party
are no more at all hurt by the Covenant, than by thefe Afts of Parliament againft
them, to which the King's Father allwayes promifed his full confent. The Covenant
cannot come near any Papift, bot by particulare A£ts of Parliament ; and fuch Afts can
bring all the trouble on them they feare, as much without as with the Covenant.
8. As for the Praelats, the King's father offered Afts of Parliament to abolifhe their
vote in Parliament, to divefl them totally of all civill imployments ; to fett up Prefby-
tries with them, to put the power of Ordination and Jurifdiftion in the Prefbytrie, as
much as in the Bifhop, their Moderator. Thefe conceffions deftroy whatever argument
either his Majeftie or the Prelats can bring for keeping up any roote of Epifcopacie,
either of honour from former lawes and cuftomes, or of confcience from fcripture : For
the legall and alledged fcripturall Bifhope is offered to be abolifhed, and a new one
eflentially different from the former, a meer ftranger to England and the world abroad,
altogether alfo unfatiffa£tory to the Covenanters, is urged to be put in his place.
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9. See if they be happy and wife Counfellours who will have the King and all his
people deftroyed for fuch a neceffity as this ; and if fatiffa&ion in this poynt may be ob
tained, confider if his M ajeftie's affaires doe not require that with all fpeed, cheerfullnefs,
and fullnefs, it be offered ; how often hes gracious conceffions by parcells, and out of time,
been for no purpofe ?
1. But it is Obje&ed, The King, by granting this defy re of the Scotts, will lofe the
fervice of many more than he gaines.
Ans. This is a groundlefs alleadgeance. No Scott 1 man at all will fall off him for the
Covenant. All the late ingagers profeffit ever for it. James Graham's friends alfo doe
boaft of zeall againft BUhops and Ceremonies. None of the Englilhc or Irifh Proteftant
nobilitie or gentrie, and very few of the Cleargie by their owne principles, believes
Bifhops and Ceremonies to be fo necefiare, hot the Church of England may want them as
the reft of the Reformed doe, and that the King and Parliament may lawfullie lay them
afyde on the preflbur of fmaller inconveniences than now doe compafs the King and his
kingdomes. If any of the Clergie be in ane other judgement, their number and power
is fo inconfiderable, that their obftinacie in this needs not be ftuck upon. As for the
Papifts in Ireland, they need be no more offended with the King's joyning in the Co
venant, than with his affenting, as his Father did, to A&s of Parliament as fevere againft
them as the Covenant. Their offence here is not much to be valued, the King will not
employ them, being idolaters, and the moft of them guiltie of much innocent blood.
Howfoever thefe things may be, let it be confidered whether, by taking the Covenant, his
Majeftie's gaining to his fervice of Scotland entire, of all the Covenanters in England
and Ireland, and fo many other, as by his Majeflie's example and authorise, will be
added to them, be a more fenfible advantage then by refiifing of the Covenant, his
keeping thefe of the Popifh, Prelaticall, and Malignant party, who will in no tearros
joyne in the Covenant, with the certain lofs of all the true Covenanters in the three
Kingdomes, who are tyed in confcience not to aflbciat in armes or counfells with Anti-
Covenanters remaining in that condition.
2. Object. His Majeftie's confcience is contrare to the matter of the Covenant.
Ans. How can it be fo ? Shall the King enjoyn in Scotland what is againft his con
fcience ? But what in the Covenant is againft his confcience ? The abolition of
Poperie cannot, for in this he is no more tyed to perfue the perfons of Papifts than
his Father and Grandfather, and Queen Elizabeth, were by many Ads of Parliament,
neither, any farther than the Oath of Coronation bindeth Kings of England to doe,
though there were no Covenant for it. Is it the abolition of Prelacy ? I hope the
King's confcience may be gotten clear from Holy Scripture, that there is no more a
neceffitie for a Bifliop in England than in Holland, or any other of the Reformed
Churches, who all have laid them afide ; his Majeftie's Father offered to deveft Bifhops
of all civill employment, and to joyn with them for ordination and jurifdiftion a pref-
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 507
byterie. This is to abolifh the legall and alleadged fcripturall Bifhop, and to put up
in his place a new Bifhop effentially diiFering from the former, whofe abolition, not
being the fcripturall Bifhop, cannot be againft a rightlie informed confcience, nor
againft the honour of the King of England, not being the Bifhop which either the law
or cuflomes of England did ever know.
LXXX.
A NOTE INTENDED FOR MYN HEERE WILLEMS.
I EAKNESTLIE defyre, fince his Majeftie in his third paper to the States General! does
plainlie declare his refolution to go for Ireland, that the Prince, Princefs Douager, and
fbme of the States Generall, were dealt with to indeevour, that the States Generall in
their anfwers to his Majeftie's defyres, might be pleafed in a friendlic earneftnefs to
advyfe his Majeftie much rather to goe to Scotland than Ireland, for fuch reafons as
their own wifdomes will eafilie fuggeft ; for the prefent thefe come in my minde.
1. His goeing to Ireland now joynes him with the worft part of his fubje&s, and
declares that his chiefe confidence is in them who, befyde their avowed Poperie, are
fo defiled with innocent blood, that ane affociation with them cannot bot be curfed of
God, and detefted by all the reft of his good fubje&s.
2. This cannot faile to blaft his Majeftie's defignes at the very beginning.
LXXX I.
THE COMMISSION FROM THE ESTATES OF PARLIAMENT.
[Only the Title of this Commission and of the Instructions that follow are contained in
Mr. Thomson's Edition of the Acts of Parliament : Vide Vol. VI, pp. 400, 435.]
THE Eftates of Parliament being moft defyreous that his Majeftie by his authorise
would joyne and give his Royal afTent and concurrence in all things for the good of Re
ligion, his own honour and happinefs, and the welfare of his Kingdomes ; and confidering
how neceflarie it is that this Kingdome make their fpeedy addreffes, and render to His
Majeftie their faithfull advice in thefe things which are neceflarie and effeftuall for thefe
ends, doe hereby therefore nominate, appoint, and authorize, and give power to the
Right Honourable the Earl of Caffills, Earle of Lothian, Laird of Brodie, Laird Lib-
bertone, Sir John Cheefly, Alexander Jaffrey, and William Glendinning, all feven
being prefent together, or to anie two of them in cafe of the abfence of the reft, to
repaire to the King's Majeftie, for doeing, afting, and profecuting every thing which
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may tend moft to the good of Religion, fettling of the Government, and peace of his
Kingdomes, according to the Solemn League and Covenant, and the inftruftiones given,
or to be given to them, in purfuance of thefe ends, firm and ftable holding whatfoever
rtiall be done by them.
A. JOHNSTON, Clericus Registri.
LXXXIL
INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE COMMISSIONERS OF PARLIAMENT
SENT TO THE KING'S MAJESTIE. MARCH 1649.
Vow fhall, with all poflible diligence, repaire to the King's Majeftie, deliver our let
ter, {how your commiffion, and tell the true reafones and excufes of your not comeing
fooner to his Majeftie.
Yow fhall fliew his Majeftie, that as this Kingdome was not wanting in their fuithfull
counfells to his Royal Father, for preventing the dangers which were then feared, and
have H net1, to our great grief, fallen out ; fo did they, with all care and faithfullnefs, con
tribute their utmoft endeavors for the prefervation of their late Soveraigne, as their let
ters, inftrudtions, declarations, and their Commiffioners papers witnefs.
Yow {hall {hew his Majeftie with what unanimitie, alacritie, diligence, and folemnitie,
the Parliament did acknowledge him King of Great Brittane, France, and Ireland.
Yow {hall fliew his Majeftie that his Father's oppofition to the Covenant and work of
Reformation was the chiefe caufe of his and thefe Kingdomes troubles.
Yow {hall {hew his Majeftie how unacceptable the enemies and oppofers of the Cove
nant and Reformation are to his Kingdome.
Yow {hall communicate to his Majeftie the Aft of the date of the 7th of February
inftant, as that which contains the neceflarie fatiffa&ion which is defyred and expected
from his Majeftie by this Kirk and Kingdome, for fecureing religion and the peace of
the kingdome, and for gaining, not only the outward obedience, hot alfo the inward
affection of all his good people to his Royall perfon, authoritie, and government, after fo
great diffractions and troubles, and notwithstanding the appearance and apprehenfion of
new fturrs and dangers ; lykewife yow {hall, by all the good reafones which yow can
thinke upon, endeavour to perfuade his Majeftie to give the fatiffaftion defyred heartilie
and fpeedilie.
If his Majeftie {hall {hew his willingnefs and refolution to give the fatiffa£Uon defyred
in the faid Aft, and to make the fame known to the Parliament here, and to the Com
miffioners of the Kirk, yow {hall in our name invite his Majeftie to come to his king-
dome of Scotland, and affure his Majeftie, that he fliall be receaved and entertained with
all fafetie, freedome, and honour, duety and refpeft, which can be demanded or expeft-
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 509
ed by a gracious King from contented fubjeds, who are tied to him by fo many bonds
and oathes.
If his Majeftie upon thefe grounds refolve to come hither, his Majeftie would be
pleafed to leave all thefe perfones who were excluded by the Propofitions of both King-
domes, or againft [whom] this Kingdome hath juft caufe of exception ; and declare, that
he will in matters civill, follow the counfells of his Parliament, and fuch as are orlhallbe
authorized by them, and in matters ecclefiaftick, the counfell of the Generall Aflemblie,
and of fuch as are or fhall be authorized by them.
Yow fhall delyver our letters to the Queen of Bohem, to the Prince of Orange, and
to the Princess Royal ; and yow fhall defyre them to interpofe, and make ufe of their
affiftance to move the King to give fatiffa&ion as is above fpecified.
Yow fhall lykewife delyver our letter to the Eftates of Holland, and fhew how fen-
fible we are of their kinde refpe&s to our King, and our defyres to entertaine all friend-
fhip and amitie with them ; and you fhall deal both with the Prince of Orange and them
for a fafe and honourable convoy to his Majeftie to this Kingdome.
Yow fhall fhew his Majeftie the great dangers, and irrepairable lofTes which moft
inevitably enfue upon his delay or refufeal of the forefaid defyres ; for by delay his
enemies will be encouraged and ftrengthened, and the people be forced to couch under
the burdens, and fubmit to their yoke, defpareing of any meanes of reliefs or dely verance,
and then the redreffe will be more difficult, and opportunities once loft cannot be re
covered. The negle£l of opportunities which were frequently offered, and not taken
hold on by his Royall Father, (as may be evidently inftanced,) was the chiefe caufe of his
and the kingdomes troubles, and proved fad and fatall at laft.
And the fooner his Majeftie begins to move that way which may be acceptable to
God and good men, and offer to fettle religion and peace, and upon thefe grounds claime
the right of his Government, before Democracy, or any new modell of Government under
the name of ane agreement of the people, or any other name or devyce be fettled or
take root ; it will be more eafie to maintaine Monarchicall Government, than to repeall
and caft out any new forme of Government, after it is once eftablifhed, and the people
habituated thereto. And if now, when by the power and prevalencie of Sectaries,
and the armie in England, that Kingdome is fubdued and almoft loft, and Ireland in
very great diftra&ion, his Majeftie fhall delay or refufe to fatiffie the defyres of the
Kingdome of Scotland, efpeciallie concerning Jleligion and the Covenant, which ia
the ftrongeft bond to tye fubje&s to their King, it will weaken all who love Re
ligion and Government in England and Ireland, and will wholly difcharge [difcourage]
and difable Scotland to doe for him, and conftraine them in fuch ane extreamitie to
refolve upon fome effeftuall courfe by the Parliament to preferve Religion and the
Kingdome from ruine and diftraftion.
And his Majeftie's granting of the forefaid Defyres, will fo farr indeare him to this
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Nation, and affure their affection and duties to him, a-, they will not only receave him
with all thankfullnefs, and molt willinglie render to him that fubje&ion and dutiefull
obedience which can be expected from loyal fubjefts to their King, bot lykewife to con
tribute their utmoft endeavors by all necefTarie and lawfull meanes according to the
Covenant, and the dutie of loyall and faithfull fubjects, that his Majeftie may be re-
ftored to the peaceable pofTeflion of the Government of his other Kingdomes, according
to his undoubted right of fucceffion ; and as his Majeftie's coming in the Covenant with
God and his people for fettling religion, is the fared foundation of a weell-grounded
peace, fo it will certainly be the beft and the raoft effedruall way to eftablifhe his Throne
in righteoufnefle.
Yow ftiall concurre with, and be aflifting to the Commiffioners of the Church, in pur-
fueance of their Inftrucliones, taking their advyce alfo in manageing of your's, efpeciallie
in thefe things relating to Religion.
If the King's Majeftie be willing to give fatiffaction to this Kingdome, yow ftiall de-
fyre him to recall all Commiffions iflued forth for a&ing any thing by fea or land, to
the prejudice of the Covenant or this Kingdome, or the prejudice of any who doe or
ftiall adhere to the Solemne League and Covenant, and Monarchical! Government in
any of his other Kingdomes.
•
LXXXIII.
THE REPORT OF THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE CHURCH, OF
THEIR PROCEEDINGS WITH HIS MAJESTY AT THE HAGUE,
MADE IN THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, JULY 10rH 1649-
[The Commissioners, on their return from the Hague in July 1649, presented a Report
to the Parliament, and also to the General Assembly, containing copies of the
several Papers interchanged with Charles the Second in the course of their nego
tiations. Most of these papers and letters are included in Baillie's Manuscript ; but
they were published officially at the time under the following title : —
" The Proceedings of the Commiffioners of the Church and Kingdom of Scotland with
his Majeftie at the Hague, and the Papers interchanged betwixt his Majeftie and
them, as they were Reported in Parliament and the General Aflembly. Appointed
by Authority to be published. Edinburgh, printed by Evan Tyler, Printer to the
King's moft Excellent Majeftie, 1649.'1 4to, pp. 30. There is also an edition re
printed the same year at London, 4to, pp. 27. The first portion, or the Report to
Parliament, may be found in Mr. Thomson's edition of the Acts of Parliament of Scot
land, Vol. VI. pp. 451-459. The other portion containing the Report of the Church
Commissioners, in which Baillie was more immediately concerned, is here subjoined.]
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 511
REPORT, &c.
As We were commanded by the Commiffion of the Church, we made ready with all
the fpeed we could for our voyage to Holland. According to your prayers, the good
hand of our God brought us fafe through the fea. On Tuefday March 27, we made
our firft addrefles to his Majefty, we delivered our Letters and Commiffion, expreffing
in our fpeech, according to our Inftrudions, the deep fenfe and grief of this Church for
his Majefties affli&ions, their deteftation of the principles and proceedings of the Sec
taries in England, their conftant affe&ion to Monarchie, and moft hearty defires for the
bleffing of God upon his Majefties perfon and government. All this was well taken
from us, and we were courteously difmifled, to return when we thought fit with our
Propofitions.
The Commiffion's Letter was as foloweth : —
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
WHILE the Parliament of this Kingdom are making their [humble] addreffes to your
Majefty by their Commiffioners, We thought it our duty to fend fome of our number alfo
inftru&ed with Commiffion from us, by whom your Majefty may underftand the integrity
of our intentions towards Monarchicall Government, and the continuance thereof in
your Majefties person and pofterity, and our utter deteftation of thefe abominable and
unparalleld pra&ifes of fome againft the Perfon of your Majeftie's Father, and their Tub-
verting the ancient and fundamentall Lawes and Government of thefe Kingdomes.
Our humble and earneft petition to your Majeftie is, That you would be pleafed to
grant the defires of your loyall fubjefts, who fincerely feek the eftablifhment of your
throne in righteoufnefs ; and as you love the glory of God, the good of religion, your
own honour and happinefs and the peace and welfare of thefe kingdoms, you would not
hearken to the counfells, nor countenance, or own the courfes of them who have been,
and are ufurpers upon the priviledges, and difturbers of the peace of this Kirk and
Kingdom. Our Commiffioners will acquaint your Majeftie more fully with our minde,
unto whom we humbly defire your Majeftie may give credit, and interpret our free
dom and plain dealing by them, as a reall teftimony of our unfained affeftion to your
Majeftie's perfon and government. We have hitherto laboured to approve our felves in
all fidelity to our Lord and Matter Jefus Chrift, and in all loyalty to Kingly authority ;
and we are refolved to walk ftill after the fame rule, in our feveral ftations and voca
tions, amidft all the difficulties and oppofitions wherewith we are afiaulted on either
hand. Praying for your Majeftie, that the Lord of the whole earth would multiply all
forts of mercies upon your Royall perfon, and gratioufly incline your young and tender
heart unto the fpeedy embracing and following of the counfels of truth and righteouf-
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neffe, and grant unto your Majeftie a long and happy reign, that we may live under
you, a peaceable and quiet life in all GodlinefTe and honeftie, who are
Your Majeftie's loyall and loving Subjects, and humble Servants
in the Lord, the Commiffioners of the General Aflembly.
[And in our name, and at our command,
Mr. R. DOUGLASS, Moderator.]
Edinburgh, March 1, 1649-
Before we offered any of our defires, we thought it convenient to affay the putting
away of that which we feared might prove obftrudHve to all our intentions : Before our
comming, that unhappy and curfed man James Graham had been fent for, and too well
intertained by thefe of the Englifh Counfell, who left affe&ed our Covenant, and all the
late proceedings of our Nation: Our firft Paper therefore on Fryday, March 30, was for
the removall of this evill man from his Majeftie's prefence and Court. The Com-
mifiioners of Parliament had defired the fame before, the firft anfwer they got was but
dilatory : we conceived it the more neceflary for us to joyne with the fame their defire
again ; our Petition was in thefe terms : —
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
ACCORDING to our Commiffion, we do reprefent in the name of the Kirk of Scotland
their earneft defire, that fuch as lie under the cenfure of Excommunication may be dif-
countenanced by your Majefty, and removed from your Court ; efpecially James Graham
late Earle of Montrofle, being a man moft juftly, if ever any, caft out of the Church of
God. It hath been the cuftom of Chriftian Princes in all places and times, to maintain
fo far the difcipline of all Churches which themfelves did proteft by their laws, as (ac
cording to the order of Chrift) to decline the familiar converfing with every one whom
the higheft cenfure of excommunication made as Ethnicks and Publicans. Your Ma-
jeftie's walking in any other way would be contrary to the rules of Scripture, to the
praftife of thefe Princes whofe gracious examples will be your Majeftie's moft wholfome
patents, and would certainly give a great ftroak to all the difcipline of the Kirk of
Scotland, which your Majeftie's Royall Grandfather by many of his laws, and your
Royall Father in his Parliament of Scotland 1640, hath exprefly ratified, and we truft
your Majeftie will never intend to alter ; leaft of all at this time, in the hopefull begin
ning of your reign ; for gratifying of a perfon, upon whofe head lies more innocent
blood, then for many yeers hath done on the head of any one, the moft bloody mur-
therer in our Nation.
We hope for fo much mercie from our God, that his gracious Spirit fhall incline your
Majeftie's heart to give us juft fatiiTaftion in all our neceflary defires, that the cordiall
union of your Majeftie with your people, fo much longed for on all hands, may with all
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fpeed be fully accomplitfied : And that this curfed man, whofe fcandelous carriage, per-
nitious counfell, and contagious company, cannot fail (fo long as he remains in his ob-
ftinate impenitencie) to diflionour, and pollute all companies, and provoke the anger of
the moft high God againft all places of his familiar acceffe ; fliall not be permitted by
your Majeftie to ftand any longer in the entry of our hopes, to our great difcourage-
ment and fear, left by his guilt, example, and afting, all the humble defires and wholfom
counfels which we are intrufted with, fhould be obftrufted and fruftrate.
Friday March 30, 1649.
CASSILS. ROBERT BAILLIK.
GEORGE WYNRAM. JAMES WOOD.
His Majeftie's Return to us both was in this Paper.
I DO infift upon my former Anfwer, and do defire and expeft that you do deliver all
the Propofitions or Defires you or any of you are entrufted to prefent to me, before I
make an anfwer to any particular one, being refolved to confider of the whole, before
I declare my refolution upon any part.
April 10. N. Stil. 1649. C. R.
We took it for no good prefage, that notwithftanding all we could doe by ourfelves,
or by others, this man remained ftill in our way, as an open enemy to all our defignes ;
alfo that his Majeftie"s anfwer to us was put in one paper, and was altogether the fame
with his anfwer to the Commiflioners of Parliament, without any direction either to
them or us, expreffing his acknowledgement of our capacity as Commiflioners ; yet
having obtained the King's promife of a fatiffaftory anfwer in reafon, to that our firft
Petition, fo foon as the reft of our propofitions were given in ; and judging his Majeftie's
receiving of our meflage, and anfvvering of all our papers without any quarrelling of our
Commiffion, whereof in every paper we made exprefle mention, to be a reall acknow
ledgement of us as Commiffioners from the Church ; and not being inftru&ed to break
off all treaty at the beginning, upon difiatiffa£tion in fuch things, as the Commiflioners of
Parliament, fo we alfo thought fit to proceed.
The main things we were inftrufted to propone to his Majeftie, were the Nationall
Covenant of Scotland, the Solemne League and Covenant of the three Kingdomes, the
Directory of Worfhip, the Confeflion of Faith, the Propofitions for Preibyteriall Go
vernment, the two Catechifmes, as they were agreed unto by the Generall AfTembly and
Parliament of Scotland. Thefe fix peeces we did bind together in a book, and delivered
them to his Majefty, fpeaking fomewhat to the matter of every one of them, and en
treating that his Majefty would be pleafed to read and perufe them all, what ever
fcruple might arife in his mind from any of them, we offered our beft endeavours to
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fatiffie him therein ; But our pofitive defires concerning thefe particulars, we gave in on
Thurfday, April yV* in this Paper.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTY,
WEK the Commiflioners of the Church of Scotland, hoping for an anfwer fatiffa&ory
in reafon to our firft paper, according to your Majeftie's gracious promife, do go on ac
cording to our Commiflion, to fignifie, in the name of that Church, that after their
hearty prayer to God, for his blefling on your royall perfon and government ; It is their
moft earned defire that it may be your Majeftie's pleafure to give them affurance, under
your hand and feale, of your approbation of the Nationall Covenant of Scotland, fub-
fcribed by your Royall Grandfather, approven and enjoyned by your Royall Father in
the Parliament of Scotland, 1640. And of the Solemn League and Covenant, which
now, for divers years, the Parliaments, and Generall Affemblies of Scotland, the two
Houfes of the Parliament of England, and the AfTembly of [Dy vines at] Weftminfter, after
long and ferious deliberation, have unanimoufly found to be the beft and neceffary means
of fetling Religion, of eftablifhing the Throne, and bringing back profperity to your
Majefty, and all your three now lamentably diftreffed Kingdomes ; alfo of the Directory
of Worfhip, Confeffion of Faith, Catechifme, and Prefbyteriall Government of the
Church, agreed upon, according to the Word of God, by the Affembly of Divines at
Weftminfter, and the Generall Affemblies of the Church of Scotland : the copies of all
which we did, the other day, deliver to your Majefty. Likewife that your Majefty
would be pleafed to fubfcribe the Nationall Covenant, with the Solemn League and
Covenant, and give your royall affent to fuch Afts of the Parliament of Scotland as flial
be offered to your Majefty, for the eftablifhing and enjoyning of the premifes in Scot
land, and to fuch Adts of Parliament as fhall be offered by the two Houfes of the Par
liament of England, for the eftablifhing and enjoyning the fame in England and Ireland;
and in the mean time, that your Majefty would be pleafed to lay afide the ufe of the
Service Book, and conform the worfhip of God in your Royall Family to the Directory.
We are fully perfwaded that your Majeftie's cordiall joyning with your loving fubje&s
in thefe means of advancing the honour of God and true religion, fhall procure from
heaven the Lord's powerful affiftanco, to bring your Majefty and your people out of
the great tribulations and dangers wherein both for the prefent are plunged. We
are alfo confident that your Majeftie's granting thefe moft humble and earneft defires
fhall be a chief and effeftuall mean to knit to your Majefty, in all duty, the hearts of
all your good fubje&s, not in Scotland alone, but every where elfe, and fhall loefe to
your Majefty none at all, who either loves the truth of God, or minds your Majeftie's
happineffe above their own particular unjuft interests.
CASSILS. ROBKRT BAILLIE.
April -ff. LIBBEBTON. JAMES WOOD.
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Upon Friday the day following we received from his Majefty this Ihort Return.
C. R. April 16.
I DESIRE, for the reafons mentioned in my former papers, to know whether the laft
papers I received from you contain the full demands and propofitions you or any of
you have to make in reference to Church or State, and if not, that then you deliver
what remains, that I may confider of the whole, and proceed accordingly.
April 16, 1649.
To this on the Satterday we made this Reply.
UNTO the paper delivered to us by your Majefty this day, we doe make this humble re
turn, that the laft your Majefty received from us the Commiffioners of the Kirk of Scot
land, doth contain the fubftance of all we have to demand of your Majefty, the grant
whereof will make any other humble advice we are to propone moft eafie. What the
Commiffioners of Parliament have to deliver in reference to the State, we leave it
wholly to themfelves, they being in a commiffion and capacity altogether diftinft from
that which we have from the Church alone.
CASSILS. R. BAILLIE.
April yV, 1649. LIBBERTON. JAMES WOOD.
The dayes thereafter, his Majefty and the Commiffioners of Parliament interchanged
divers papers about points of State, wherein we had no place to meddle ; in the mean
while we were not idle, but went about our inftruftions, both by conferences with his
Majefty, and by frequent dealing with divers perfons of quality whom we conceived to
have ability or any opportunity to promove with his Majefty the grant of our defires ;
Alib by anfwering fometimes even in print, a multitude of calumnies wherewith our
malignant enemies, with much artifice and malice, did labour to poifon the eares of his
Majefty and all about him againft our Church and Kingdome.
But finding time to drive over, and no anfwer according to our mind appearing, we
gave in on May i y, the following Writ.
UPON the T55th of April, We, the Commiffioners of the Kirk of Scotland, did in
their name prefent their humble and earneft defires of thefe things, which they con
ceived necefiary for the fecurity of religion, for the eftablifhment of your Majeftie'a
throne, and for putting of them in a confident expectation of the' Lord's bleffing upon
your Majeftie's Government; fmce that time we have been alwayes wayting, and
often humbly moving for an anfwer ; but as yet none at all is given, we cannot conceal,
but fo long a delay hath affefted us with griefe, fo much the more as your Majefty hath
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declared your refolution to be gone from this on Thurfday next, which makes the time
we have to confider what your Majefty (hall be pleafed to offer very fhort. Where
fore with all humility and earneftneffe we doe fupplicate that without the lofle of more
time, now at lai't we may have fo gracious and fatiffactory a return to our former
papers, as may make us leave your Majefty with joy, and carry home to them who have
fent us, matter of praife to God for inclining your heart towards thefe their counfels :
which are moft likely to procure to your Majefty and all your dominions, an happy de
liverance from all their prefent diftreffes.
CASSILLS. Ro. BAILLIE.
May •£•§-, 1649. LIBBERTON. JA. WOOD.
Hereby we obtained from his Majefty, May ^-£ , this Anfwer.
I HAVE confidered the feveral Papers and Propofitions, delivered to me by you, and
do allure you, that I defire nothing more, then that I may entirelie unite the hearts and
affe&ions of all my good fubje&s of Scotland to me, and amongft themfelves als well
for the honor, peace, and profperitie of that Kingdom, as that they may joyntly and un-
animoufly aflift me, in the revenge of that horrid and impious murther of my Father,
and «the recoverie of my juft rights in my other Dominions, (to which they are equally
ingaged by the laws of God and of that Kingdom ;) and to the obtaining of fuch an Union,
I will confent to all that in confcience and honour I may, without impofing on my other
Kingdoms. As firft I will maintain, confirm, and defend the Government, Ecclefiaftical
and Civill, of Scotland, as is fettled by law, and the ancient known laws of that King
dom, as likeways all fuch Adts of Parliament as have been actually confented unto by
the King my Father, being perfonally prefent in Parliament, or by his Commiffioners
lawfully authorized by him ; and particularlie, the laws concerning the National Cove
nant, the Confeflion of Faith, and Prefbyteriall Government of that Church ; touching
that part of the League and Covenant which concerneth my other Kingdoms of Eng
land and Ireland, it is not in my power juftly to take any refolution therein, without
the advice of my refpeftive Parliaments of thefe Kingdoms, by whofe advice and con
fent onely, lawes are there to be made and altered, neither can I confent to any thing which
fhall oppofe or difturb the Peace lately concluded in Ireland, but I am very willing to
refer the full confideration of the faid League and Covenant, and of all the other parti
culars you mention (as to England) to a free Parliament to be conveened there by my writ,
as foon as the condition of that Kingdom will permit me fo to do, by whofe advice I am
refolved to govern myfelf therein ; in the mean time, as I am very ready to do all that
is in my power to the fafe and quiet prote&ion of my people in Scotland, under the
benefit of the laws of that Kingdom, as likeways further to gratifie them in all that may
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 51?
really tend to their welfare ; fo I fliall expeft that obedience and duty from them in the
exercife of my Royall power, as is due to me by their allegiance, to which they fubmit-
ting, and for the burying all bitterneffe and animofities which the former diftraftions and
divifions may have produced, and the better effeaing the happy union before mentioned,
I am very willing and defirous to confent to any Aa of Oblivion and Indemnity to all
perfons of what condition foever of that Kingdom of Scotland, excepting onely fuch
perfons, (if any fuch there be, in or of that Kingdom,) that fhall hereafter, upon fuffi-
cient and due evidence in a lawfull tryal, be found actually and exprefly guilty of that
late, tmparaleld, horrid aa, of the murther of their late Sovereign. And if it fliall
appear unto me, that the League and Covenant containeth any thing in it not com-
prifed in thefe Afts concerning the Nationall Covenant, and Prefbyteriall Govern
ment of the Church of Scotland, and neceflarily to the welfare of the faid Church
and Kingdom, without reference to England or Ireland ; I fhall, upon the firft fetl-
ing of fuch an Union, and the paffing of fuch an Aft of Oblivion as is before men
tioned, apply myfelf to give ful fatiffaftion therein. Paflionately defiring to remove
all occafions of mifunderftanding between myfelf and all my good fubjeas of that my
Kingdom of Scotland; and what is not particularly anfvvered at this time, fhall be
fupplied by an exprefs, whom I will difpatch into Scotland as foon as convenientlie I can.
May |-f 1649- CHARLES REX. •
Ouu grief for this Paper was great, it was much worfe then any thing we expeaed ;
not only the hand of the worft of the Englifh counfell, but of James Graham alfo, and
others of our evil Countrymen, was vifible therein ; we refolved to give unto it this
plain Reply.
MAY IT PLEASE YOUR MAJESTIE,
WE the Commifiioners of the Kirk of Scotland, having confidered your Majeftie's
Paper of May ^^, given to us in anfwer of all our former, muft in confcience of our duty
with all humility make known to your Majefty, that to our great grief, we find it in
many the chiefeft points of our defires very unfatiffa&ory. Unto our firft paper, for
difcountenancing excommunicate perfons, to which a fatiffaaory anfwer in reafon was
promifed, nothing at all is faid. To our other defires no proper return is made unto us,
but we are fent to gather it here and there out of your Majeftie's Anfwer to the Com
miffioners of Parliament ; wherein, though we find fome things returned to their defires
which they had common with us, yet the moft part thereof runneth upon matters of
State, wherewith our condition permits us not to meddle : but rather then to goe away
without all further conference, we are willing, in obedience to your Majeftie's defire, to
confider what in that writing we conceive may have any reference to our Propofitions.
We bleffe God that your Majefty affures us you will maintain, confirm, and defend
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the Ecclefiaftick Government of Scotland as it is fetled by law ; and particularly, thefe
laws which concern the Nationall Covenant, Confeflion of Faith, and Prefbyteriall Go
vernment of our Church ; their blame muft be the greater, who have been authors to your
Majefty, to give fo frequent, open, and familiar accefle to James Graham, moft folemnly
and juftly excommunicate by that Church : which thing cannot but be thought, as it is
indeed, a great violation of the Ecclefiaftick Government, To our defire in the matter
of our Nationall Covenant ; that as your Grandfather by his own hand, and your
Father by the hand of his Commiffioner, had fubfcribed it, fo your Majefty would be
pleafed to fubfcribe the fame ; no anfwer at all is given. But our prime diflatiffaction
is, that what we petitioned concerning the Dire&ory, Confeflion of Faith agreed upon
by the AfTembly of Divines at Weftminfter, and approven by the General AfTembly and
Parliament of Scotland, Catechifmes and Propofitions for Government is clearly denied ;
and our greateft defire about the Solemn League and Covenants fully fruftrate. The
Covenant itfelf is broken in pieces, fome parts are avowedly laid afide, the other parts
are refufed to be taken unto confideration till they be proven, firft not to be com-
prifed in the A&s concerning the Nationall Covenant, and Prefbyterial Government of
the Church of Scotland, next that they are neceflary to the welfare both of the Church
and Kingdom, and thirdly, that they have no reference either to England or Ireland'
When all this is made to appear, an Aft of Oblivion of all that James Graham and his
complices, or any other have done during all the time of thefe fad diftra&ions, muft be
paft, and a union with all thefe men muft be fully fetled, before your Majeftie do fo
much as apply yourfelf to give any fatiffa&ion in thefe things.
Such an Anfwer we know cannot fail to grieve the whole Church of Scotland, and all
their Covenanted Brethren in England and Ireland ; who, under the pain of moft fo-
lemn perjury, {land bound to God, and one to another, to live and die in that Solemn
League and Covenant, as the chief and neceflary fecurity of their religion and liberties :
which the popifli, prelaticall, and malignant faftion, by their pernitious counfels and
aftions, now of a long time have been overturning, and to this day continue diligent in
promoving to their power that their definitive defigne. We marvail how any can ob-
je£t confcience or honour againft your Majeftie's granting to us what we defire in the
Covenant for fecuring the Proteftant Religion, who have themfelves been counfellers and
perfwaders, that your Majeftie, without all fcruple either of confcience or honour, fhould
conclude, fubfcribe, and feal, antecedently to, and without any Parliament, yea contrary
to all the Parliaments of England thefe hundred years, a libertie of the Popifh Religion
to the bloody rebels of Ireland.
Your Majeftie would be pleafed to confider, that any relation thefe things we defire
may have to England, hindereth them not to be lawful Acts of the Generall Aflembly of
Scotland, legally ratified by the Parliaments of that Kingdom ; which, when your Ma
jeftie does approve, nothing is impofed upon England} fince their own Houfes of Parlia-
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ment and Aflembly of Divines did not only aft the fame things, but in all their treaties
with the King and with Scotland, for divers years together did earneftly prefle them.
Your Majeftie's Father, in his laft meffage to the Commiffion of our Church, did offer
to ratifie the Solemn League and Covenant for all that had taken it, or fhould take it
in any of the three Kingdoms, and in his laft treaty with the Engliih Commiffioners in
the Ifle of Wight did, as we are informed, offer to confirm the Directory, Prefbyteriall
Government, and what elfe was required for Religion in England and Ireland, ever till
he and his Parliament fhould agree upon a fetled order for the Church. We do not
conceive what in this Covenant can ftumble your Majeftie. The abolition of Epifco-
pacy and of the Service-Book your Majeftie maintains, confirms, and defends in Scot
land : the duty done with a good confcience and allowance of God in Scotland cannot
be againft confcience, nor offend God in England: no Reformed Church, no Proteftant
Divine out of England, did ever efteem Epifcopacie or Liturgie necefTary : All Scot
land, the moft of England, the beft part of Ireland, do judge the abolition of Popery
of Prelacie, of Liturgie, and joyning in a Covenant for that end* a necefTary duty.
Your Majeftie, and all the world may fee, to the very great grief of our foul, the wrath
of the Lord burning like a flame, no better mean know we to quench it, then for your
Majeftie to be humbled under his mighty hand, to feek and relie on his favour, to be
zealous for advancing his affairs, to eftablifh the Solemn League and Covenant, to pro
voke him no more by holding up inhisHoufe, againft the hearts of all the orthodox abroad,
and of the godly at home, humane inventions borrowed from Rome, moft unhappy to
Britain. No mean in our judgement is comparable to this, for opening the armes and
hearts of your beft people to imbrace your Majeftie's perfon, to fecond, with their lives
and eftates, all your juft defires, to imploy, with chearfulneffe, their whole ftrength to
fettle you upon all your thrones. The refufing thereof, we are perf waded, will be di£
pleafing to God, will difcourage and difcontent extreamly all your Covenanted Subje&s,
who otherwife are moft cordially affe&ed to your Majeftie's fervice, may tempt you to
allyances with idolaters, to a dependence upon ftrangers, to a courfe of cruell perfecution
againft your b^eft fubjefts, will be pleafant to none but to fuch as are your Majeftie's
mortall enemies, who cannot but accompt it the joyfulleft news that can come to them ;
or to fuch as, whatfoever be their pretences or true intentions, yet by their counfells
and aftions, more then any other men living, do ferve the defignes and advance the
work of the Se&aries at Weftminfter and Derby-houfe for ruining your Majeftie and
us all.
Our defire to be faithful to our Mafter in Heaven, and to be anfwerable to the truft
we have from the Church that has fent us, the tendernes of our hearts towards the more
and more diftrefled condition of your Majeftie and your Kingdoms, have made us bold
to lay out thefe our free, loving, and loyall thoughts at your Majeftie's feet, expecting
your Majeftie will be pleafed to review our former Papers, and yet grant us fuch a
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fatiffaCtory return as may fend us home rejoycing, and make us be received for our glad
tydings with praife to God, with bleflings upon your Majeftie, and confident expectation
of a fpeedy change in the face of affairs in all your Dominions.
May231,p4(j CASSILLS. R. BAILLIE.
June 2/ LIBBEBTON. JA. WOOD.
Hereunto we received from his Majeftie this laft Anfwer.
I AM much unfatiffied with your Papers of the firft and fecond of this month, in
anfwer to mine of the 29 of May, finding by them that my reall endeavour to give all
juft fatiffadion to my good fubjects of Scotland are undervalued, and mifinterpreted ;
and obferving in them feveral inferences, oppofing the natural fenfe and true intent of
what I have propofed, with moft intire intentions for the good of that Church and King
dom, and unfeafonably ftirring ufelefle queftions, neither properly arifing out of any
thing contained in jiny of the former Papers, nor conducing to the common peace : But
neither thefe nor any difcouragements fhall prevail with me to omit any thing that may
tend to the peace and happinefs of all my good fubjeCts of Scotland, to which I fhall
moft affectionately, to my utmoft power, (upon all occafions,) apply myfelf, according to
the duty which I owe to the Almighty God, in the exercife of my Royall power for the
good of my people ; in order whereunto I fhall, with convenient fpeed, fend you by the
Exprefs mentioned in my laft Paper, the more particular anfwer I then promifed : I
fhall likewayes more fully exprefs myfelf concerning the new matter contained in thefe
Papers, and fhall particularize, what I now complain of in them. In the mean time, I
expeCt and require from all my fubje&s of Scotland, fuch obedience as is due to me their
King, by the laws of God, of Nature, and of that Kingdom.
>k> C. R.
To this we thought fit to make no Return in writ.
We did indeed expeCt, by the affiftance of the Prince of Orange, whofe conftant
frienclfhip we felt all the time of our abode there, and by the induftry of fome Noblemen
of our Nation, to whom, for their affectionate fervice to us in our negotiation, we counted
ourfelves not a little obliged: by the Lord's bleffing we fay on their labours, we expeCt-
ed towards the time of our return a better and more fatiffaCtory Anfwer ; but his Ma
jeftie, as we heard, being refolved before he made any conclufion to fpeak with the
Queen his Mother, and to fend an exprefs hither with more of his minde ; we kiffed hia
hands, and took our leave in difcomfort and grief, yet not without fome hope, certainly
with moft earneft defires, that the promifed Exprefs may bring to us much more matter
of fatifiaCUon and joy, then for the time we have any warrant to fpeak of.
1649. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 521
We have but one thing further to give an account of: The Commiffion did write with
us to the Reverend Divines Doctor Rivet and Dr. Spanheim : Dr. Spanheim received his
letter, hut before he did anfwer, the Lord, to our grief and the very great regrate of all the
Churches abroad, did end the pilgrimage of that truely eminent, and now much defide-
rat divine. Doctor Rivet's abode was not at the Hague as we expected, but in Breda :
we thought it a pitty, in his extream old age, to put him to the pains of fo long a jour
ney as from Breda to the Hague ; but we had his beft affections and prayers going
along with us in all our defires, as he fignified to us in his private letters, and as, we
fuppofe, he doth exprefs in this to the Affembly, which here we prefent.
CASSILLS. ROBERT BAYUE.
GEO. WYNKAME. JAMES WOOD.
Edinburgh, 10. July 1649. Ante meridiem, Seff. VI.
THE Generall Aflembly, having taken in ferious confideration the Report of the Tra-
vells and Proceedings of the Commiffioners fent to his Majefty, prefented by them this
day, together with the Commiffion and Inftructions which were given unto them, doe
find by the Report, that they have been very diligent and faithfull in the difcharge of
the Truft committed to them ; and therefore, do unanimoufly Approve of their carriage,
and return them hearty thanks for their great pains and travells in that Employment.
A. KER.
LXXXIV.
LETTERS FROM GEORGE WYNRAME OF LIBBERTON,
fOrig. Wodrow MSS. Fol. Vol. xxv. Nos. 61, 62, 74. — Wynrame was admitted Advo
cate 20th December 1620. In public life, he first distinguished himself by undertaking
to convey to London the Supplication of the General Assembly in 1638, justifying
to the King their proceedings in having abolished Episcopacy ; (vol. i. p. 187.)
During the following years he was confidentially employed by the Covenanters in
various important affairs. In February 1649, he was appointed Colonel of one of the
regiments raised in the County of Edinburgh ; and in March that year he was one of
the Commissioners from the Estates of Scotland sent to Charles the Second at the
Hague. On his return, 22d June, he was admitted a Lord of Session, under the title
of Lord Libberton. Wynrame again visited Holland towards the close of 1649, as
the bearer of letters from the Estates to Charles, urging him to comply with their
requests. In March 1650, he was a third time deputed by Parliament, in con
junction with the Earl of Cassillis and other Commissioners, to conclude the Treaty
with the King at Breda. Lord Libberton was present at the battle of Dunbar
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in September 1650, and was there BO severely wounded, as to occasion his death
within eight days after that disastrous event. ( Hal four"- Hist. Works, vol. iv. p. 98.
Brunton and Hug's Senators of the College of Justice, p.
No. I.
Rotterdam, wltimo Octob. 1649.
RIGHT REVEREND,
ALTHO I had not the happines to fe yow at my pairting, I know ye will neither for-
gett the worke nor the unworthy inftrument that is [in] imployment ; and I beg it of
yow. I know ye will fie all, and theirfor I fall only tell yow how much the Aflembleis
Declaratione flicks with the Engadgers, that they fay, (with all humble fubmuTione to
the Kirk of Scotland,) they can not fubfcryue that, wnles they will proclame them-
felues perjured traitours ; and wnles fomething be done in relatione to them, it will be
impoflible to exfpect ane accommodations with the King. Sr, think wpone it. 1 can not
conceall firome yow alfo, that the Prince of Orange fayes he is informed, in Scotland the
young miniftcrs are putting out the old. And believe it, Mr. Will. ColwilFs comming
hither will doe much hurte ; tho I hear, the man is very moderate, fhunes the company
of Engadgers, and will doe nothing to flrengtheu their hands. He preaches heir, and if
he will embrace it, can not want a call longe. I hear he fpeaks with a great deall of
fubmiffioune of, and prayes earneftly for the Kirk of Scotland.
,Sr, their is hopes that the King will acknoledge the Parl. and defyre a treaty ; which,
if he doe, I am perfuaded it will be your care to ftudy foe much moderatione as ye ar
able, with fafty to Religioun and the Couenant : wnless his Ma. get fatiffaftione in
fome things, they will fuffer him to die in mifery, and we will haue no fettled peace. The
Engadgers fay it is hard that more is craued of them then all Jas. Grahame's complices.
God willing, ye fall hear more nixt week frome your affedionat feruand,
GEO. WVNBAME.
For the Right Reuerend Matter ROBERT DOUGLAS,
Minifter at Edr-
No. 2.
RIGHT REUEREND,
IF I fould follou myne owne inclinationes I wold troble yow more at every ocafione
then were fitting in regaird of your imployment. I know ye ar not a louer of repeti-
tiones, therefore I muft refer yow to my Lo. Chan11' and Regifter's letters. The bearer
will acquaint yow with all particulars paflages. Sr, now is the tyme to pray that the
Lord wold prevent the King with his tender merceis, for indeed he is broght very low ;
when he hes not bread both for himfelfe and his feruands, and betuixt him and his
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brother not ane Inglifh (hilling ; and worfe yet, if I durft wryte it. I am confident no
ingenous fpirite will tak advantage of his neceffiteis ; hut for all this, (as I haue heard
yow aduyfe them to deall with [his] Father,) wfe him princely. France is neither able
nor willing to helpe him : The Prince of Orange hes fuffered not a little for his Father
and himfelfe, till he is forced to alienate the moft confiderable thing of his ancient patri
mony : Scotland is neir exhaufted ; foe that his cafe is very deplorable, being in prifone
where he is lining in penurie, forounded be his enemeis, not able to Hue any where ells
in the world, wnles he would come to Scotland, by giuing them fatiffa£tione to their
juft demandis ; yet his pernitious and deuillifh Counfell will fuffer him to ftarue before
they will fuffer him to take the League & Covenant. I am perfuaded no rationall man
can thinke he will come y* length at firft ; but if he could once be extricate frome his
wicked Counfell, their might be hope. If a treaty be effeftuat, much will depend wpone
the perfons ; and I know yow, Sr>, fo well, as I am perfuaded it will be your ftudy to
pointe at thees who will not make the buffines defperate. But I perfuade myfelfe it
will be the wifdome and piety of the Commiffione to fend fuch as may gaine the King
by the fpirit of meiknes, and not fuch as fay their is no helpe for him in God. But I
fear I haue gone to farr, and that my affectione haue made me ftretch myfelfe beyond
my lyne. 1 fall only intreat the continuance of your prayers and good opinione, which
are highly efteimed be
Your affectionat feruand,
Campveer, 9ber, 18-8, 1649. GEO. WYNRAME.
SIB, I fall entreat that thees may remember my loue and feruice to all friendis, and
to Mr. Baillie, with whome, (as I hear,) the King is very angry for fome pafiages in his
booke, efpecially one concerning himfelfe ; and if I can doe yow any feruice in the pairts
where I goe to, I hope ye will ufe freidome with me.
For the Right Reuerend Mr. ROBERT DOUGLAS,
Minifter at Edr.
No. 3.
RIGHT REVEREND,
I KNOW ye ar particularly informed of all that hes paft from other hands, yet I can
not lett this bearer goe without a lyne. Ye will parceave be the papers fent yow what
length the King is come in his conceffiones ; and his Maty hes faithfully promifed to per-
fyte them at their fight who reprefent Church and State, in tyme and place convenient.
All of ws ar fully perfuaded of his ingenuity and fueit difpofitione : he can not be per
fuaded to diflemble, tho no fmall induftrie haue bein ufit to perfuad him to it. And when
ye confider his educatione, and what counfellers ar about him, both for his confcience
and affaires, and what do&rine is taught to his face, that if he fubfcryue the Covenant,
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he is not only guyltie of his Father's murther, but can not efchew damnatione ; efpecially
be our countrieman Crichtoun, whome old Ruthen did chyde bitterly, faying, it was a
ftrange thing that he could not preach and hold his tongue.
Canterftein is come from Suedland to attend this Treaty, and promifeth, in his Mafter's
name, all afliftance for a happy agriement ; which ye will perceaue more fully be the
letter to the Parl'.
Sr, I will not troble yow with neidles repetitiones, but refer yow to my other letters,
which I know will be communicate wnto yow. This much I dar poiltively affirme,
that when the Lord fall bring the King to Scotland, (which he paffionatly defyres,) it
fall be no greiff of hearte wnto yow, that ye was inftruraentall in this addrefTe ; and I
hope ye will then fay that ye haue not been deceaued be
Your affe&ionat feruant.
Breda, Aprill £ $ 1650. G. WYNBAM*.
For the Right Reuerend Mr. ROBERT DOUGLAS,
Moderator of the Commifiion of the
General! Aflembly.
LXXXV.
LETTER FROM KING CHARLES THE SECOND.
[Orig— V»'odr. MSS. FoL Vol. XXV, No. 48. This letter to Mr. Robert Douglas,
nflay be considered as containing the first overture to the Treaty of Breda. It is en
tirely in the King's hand, and is dated Jersey, 15-5 February 1649, (that is 1649-50).
As Baillie was not personally concerned in the Negotiations with Charles the Second
at Breda in March, and terminating in June 1650, no other letters of this period are
here inserted. It may, however, be noticed, that Peck's Desiderata Curiosa, Vol. 2.
p. 425-429, contains, (1.) The Letter from the Commissioners of the Assembly,
signed by Douglas, 21st February 1650, in reply to the following letter from
Charles. (2.) The Commission from the Estates of Parliament, 8th March. (3.)
Letters to the King from the Earl of Loudoun, Lord Chancellor of Scotland, and the
Marquess of Argyle, 9th March, both of them exhorting him most earnestly to satisfy
the desires of the Kirk and Kingdom of Scotland. Many Original Papers relating
to the Treaty at Breda, consisting of Instructions, Letters, Demands, &c. may also
be found in the Clarendon State Papers, Vol. £. App. p. 51-65. Oxford, 1773, folio.]
MR. ROBERT Do we LAS,
I AM confident that you truly defire to promote the agreement betweene me and my
fubjects of Scotland, aswell for God's glory as for the peace and happines of that Nation ;
and truely I am foe defirous of it, that I (hall be very much obliged by all thofe that
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fhall be induftrioufly inftrumentall to it. I intreate you therefore to vfe your creditt
amongft the Minifters, to perfwade them to reafonable moderation, and to that confidence
in me, and kindnes to me, as may produce the like affections in me towards them, and be
the ground of a right vnderftanding betweene vs, for the lafting happines of that nation.
I hope you fhall neuer haue caufe to repent what you fliall doe herein, and I affure you
it fhall be effectually acknowledged by
Your affectionate friend,
Jerfey, the 15-5 of Febru, 1649. CHARLES R.
For MR. ROBERT DOWGLAS, Moderator of the
Generall Aflembly.
LXXXVI.
NOTICES REGARDING THE METRICAL VERSIONS OF THE PSALMS
RECEIVED BY THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND.
THE Metrical Version of the Psalms still in general use in Scotland was completed
and received by the authority both of Church and State, in May 1650. It was the
labour of many years, and from the numerous occasions on which Baillie alludes to its
progress, it is evident he had taken a peculiar interest in furthering the work. It may
therefore not be deemed out of place to present the reader with some further par
ticulars respecting the origin and progress of this Version, and the more so, as our
Ecclesiastical Historians afford little or no information on the subject.
I.— THE OLD VERSION, 1565.
Without entering upon any minute details respecting the older Version of the Psalms,
it may briefly be noticed, that the Scotish Reformers at an early period resolved to follow
the example of some of the Churches abroad, in making Congregational Psalmody a stated
portion of public worship. For this purpose the metrical Version of the Psalms com
menced in the reign of Edward the Sixth by Thomas Sternholde, and enlarged by the
English exiles at Geneva in the following reign, was adopted. The edition printed
at Geneva in 1556, along with " The Form of Prayers," &c. contained only 51
Psalms ; but this number was encreased in subsequent editions, that of 1561 having
«* Fourscore and seven Psalmes." It does not appear, however, that the entire Psalter was
translated previous to the edition revised by John Hopkins, and first printed at Lon
don (according to Warton) in 1562, or more probably in 1563, under this title :
" THE WHOLE BOK.E OF PSALMES, collected into English Metre, by Thomas
Starnhold, J. Hopkins, and others : conferred with the Ebrue, with apt Notes to synge
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them u ithal I. Faithfully perused and alowed according to the order appoynted in the
Queenes Maiesties Injunctions, &c. Imprinted at London by John Day, dwelling ouer
Aldersgate, be nethe Saint Martins. Cum gratia et priuilegio Regie Maiestatis per
feptennium. An. 1563." 4to. The same year, (and again in 1565,) Day published
the Psalms with the Music, in Parts : viz. " The whole Psalmes in fourt partes,
(Tenor, Contra Tenor, Medius, and Bassus,) which may be song to al musical instru
ments, set forth for the encrease of vertue, and abolyshyng of other vayne and triflyng
ballades."1 4 vol. 4tq. According to Hopkins's revised text, this version, received by
publick authority, has since continued to be republished for the Church of England.
Had the original Acts and Proceedings of the General Assembly been preserved, we
might perhaps have obtained some more accurate information on this subject. But at
whatever date this English version was adopted, we may infer, that the Assembly ap
pointed some of their number to revise and prepare it for the press ; as we find it
stated, that in December 1561, " The Kirk lent Robert Lekprevick, printer, twa
hundreth pounds [Scotish money] to help to buy irons, ink, and paper, and to fee craftis-
men for printing of the Psalmes:" And the Assembly, on the 26th December 1564,
further ordained, " That every Minister, Exhorter, and Reader, sail have ane of the
Psalme Bookes latelie printed in Edinburgh, and use the Order contained therein in
Prayers, Marriage, and Ministration of the Sacraments." The edition that was re
ferred to, has no separate title-page to the Psalms, but forms a portion of the volume
bearing this title : —
". THE FORME OF PRAYERS AND MINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS &c. vsed in
the English Church at Geneua, approued and receiued by the Churche of Scotland,
whereunto besydes that was in the former bokes [of 1561 and 1562], are also added
sondrie other prayers, with the whole Psalmes of Dauid in English meter. PRINTED
AT EDINBVRGH BY ROBERT LEKPREVIK, M.D.LXV." small 8vo. On comparing
this, or subsequent editions reprinted in this country, with those in England, there
will be found considerable variations, consisting chiefly in the substitution of different
versions of forty-one Psalms, in the place of those in use by the English Church.
Of the Psalms in this version common to both collections, there are, by the following
authors, 1st, 40 translated by THOMAS STERNEHOLD, Groom of the Robes to King
Henry the Eighth and to Edward the Sixth, and who died in 1549; 2d, 37 by JOHN
HOPKINS, a Minister in Suffolk, (the 45th Psalm, in the Edinburgh editions, being
erroneously marked W. K.) ; 3d, 10 by WILLIAM KETHE, of whom some farther notice
will be given ; 4th, 11 by WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM, who became Knox's successor as
Minister of the English congregation at Geneva, and was afterwards promoted to the
Deanery of Durham, and died in 1570 ; 5th, 8 by THOMAS NORTON, an English
Barrister, and best known as the joint author with Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, of the
tragedy of Gordabuc ; also 2 marked M. supposed to be an error for N. or Norton ; and
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6th, 1 by JOHN PULLEYN, an English divine, who becames Archdeacon of Colchester,
and died in 1565. These Psalms amount to 109. Of the other 41 Psalms, peculiar
to the copies published in Scotland, there are 15 by Kethe, 4 (67, 71, 115, 129,) by
Whittyngham, and 1 (149) by Pulley n, which appear to have been previously printed
in the 1561 edition of " Fourscore and Seven Psalms" ; and there were added, for the
first time, 6 by Robert Pont, and 15 bearing the initials of " I. C." as the translator.
Of these Translators, the initials «« I. C." are supposed to denote JOHN CRAIG, who
had been a monk of the order of St. Dominic at Bologna, but having embraced the
Protestant faith, he escaped from Italy, and returning to his native country, after an
absence of 24 years, he became minister of Holyrood-house, and of the King's House
hold, and died 4th December 1600, aged 88. His Psalms are 24, 56, 75, 102, 105,
108, 110, 117, 118, 132, 136, 140, 141, 143, and 145.
WILLIAM KETHE is described, by Strype and other writers, as a native of Scotland.
He .was an exile during the reign of Queen Mary, and one of the translators of the
Geneva Bible. He wrote some popular religious ballads, the most noted of which was
" A Ballad on the Whore of Babylon, called Tye thy mare Tom boye" He became
minister at Child-Ockford, in Dorsetshire. In the dedication of a sermon to the
Earl of Warwick, in 1571, he states, that he had been with his Lordship in New-
haven [in 1 563], as minister and preacher, and had also accompanied him the previous
year [1570] to the North parts, as one of the preachers " of the Queen's Majestie's
armie/' The versions by Kethe, included in the Scotish copies, are Psalms 27, 36,
47, 54, 58, 62, 70, 85, 88, 90, 91, 94, 101, 138, and 142.
ROBERT PONT was successively Commissioner for the diocese of Moray, Provost of
Trinity College, and Minister of St. Cuthberts, Edinburgh. He also filled for several
years the place of a Senator of the College of Justice ; but was deprived of his seat on
the bench, in consequence of an act, prohibiting " all persons exercising functions of
ministrie within the Kirk of God to bear or exercise any office of civil jurisdiction."
His Psalms are 57, 59, 76, 80, 81, and 83. In some copies 149 is marked R. P. by
mistake for I. P. or Pulleyn. In May 1601, the General Assembly appointed him " to
revise the Psalms ; and that his labours sould be revised the next Assemblie ;" but no
further notice occurs of any such revisal. He died 8th May 1608, in the 81st year of
his age.
A short specimen of these three chief contributors to our Old Version may be given.
The verses selected will show that some use was made of it in preparing our present
Version : and indeed the second copy of the 100th Psalm, in long metre, All people
that on earth do dwell, and of the 124th Psalm, in peculiar metre, Now Israel may say,
were retained, with only a few slight changes on account of the style. The translator
of the 100th Psalm was William Kethe, and of the 124th, William Whittyngham,
already mentioned as Dean of Durham.
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them \v it hall. Faithfully perused and alowed according to the order appoynted in the
Queenes Maieaties Injunctions, &c. Imprinted at London by John Day, dwelling ouer
Aldersgate, be nethe Saint Martins. Cum gratia et priuilegio Regie Maiestatis per
feptennium. An. 1563." 4to. The same year, (and again in 1565,) Day published
the Psalms with the Music, in Parts : viz. «' The whole Psalmes in fourt partes,
(Tenor, Contra Tenor, Medius, and Bassus,) which may be song to al musical instru
ments, set forth for the encrease of vertue, and abolyshyng of other vayne and triflyng
ballades.'1 4 vol. 4tq. According to Hopkins's revised text, this version, received by
publick authority, has since continued to be republished for the Church of England.
Had the original Acts and Proceedings of the General Assembly been preserved, we
might perhaps have obtained some more accurate information on this subject. But at
whatever date this English version was adopted, we may infer, that the Assembly ap
pointed some of their number to revise and prepare it for the press ; as we find it
stated, that in December 1561, " The Kirk lent Robert Lekprevick, printer, twa
hundreth pounds [Scotish money] to help to buy irons, ink, and paper, and to fee craftis-
men for printing of the Psalmes:" And the Assembly, on the 26th December 1564,
further ordained, " That every Minister, Exhorter, and Reader, sail have ane of the
Psalme Bookes latelie printed in Edinburgh, and use the Order contained therein in
Prayers, Marriage, and Ministration of the Sacraments." The edition that was re
ferred to, has no separate title-page to the Psalms, but forms a portion of the volume
bearing this title: —
". THE FORME OF PRAYERS AND MINISTRATION OF THE SACRAMENTS &c. vsed in
the English Church at Geneua, approued and receiued by the Churche of Scotland,
whereunto besydes that was in the former bokes [of 1561 and 1562], are also added
sondrie other prayers, with the whole Psalmes of Dauid in English meter. PRINTED
AT EDINBVRGH BY ROBERT LEKPREVIK, M.D.LXV." small 8vo. On comparing
this, or subsequent editions reprinted in this country, with those in England, there
will be found considerable variations, consisting chiefly in the substitution of different
versions of forty-one Psalms, in the place of those in use by the English Church.
Of the Psalms in this version common to both collections, there are, by the following
authors, 1st, 40 translated by THOMAS STERNEHOLD, Groom of the Robes to King
Henry the Eighth and to Edward the Sixth, and who died in 1549; 2d, 37 by JOHN
HOPKINS, a Minister in Suffolk, (the 45th Psalm, in the Edinburgh editions, being
erroneously marked W. K.) ; 3d, 10 by WILLIAM KETHE, of whom some farther notice
will be given ; 4th, 11 by WILLIAM WHITTYNGHAM, who became Knox's successor as
Minister of the English congregation at Geneva, and was afterwards promoted to the
Deanery of Durham, and died in 1570 ; 5th, 8 by THOMAS NORTON, an English
Barrister, and best known as the joint author with Sackville, Lord Buckhurst, of the
tragedy of Gordabuc ; also 2 marked M. supposed to be an error for N. or Norton ; and
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6th, 1 by JOHN PULLEYN, an English divine, who becames Archdeacon of Colchester,
and died in 1565. These Psalms amount to 109. Of the other 41 Psalms, peculiar
to the copies published in Scotland, there are 15 by Kethe, 4 (67, 71, 115, 129,) by
Whittyngham, and 1 (149) by Pulleyn, which appear to have been previously printed
in the 1561 edition of " Fourscore and Seven Psalms" ; and there were added, for the
first time, 6 by Robert Pont, and 15 bearing the initials of « I. C." as the translator.
Of these Translators, the initials «• I. C." are supposed to denote JOHN CRAIG, who
had been a monk of the order of St. Dominic at Bologna, but having embraced the
Protestant faith, he escaped from Italy, and returning to his native country, after an
absence of 24 years, he became minister of Holyrood-house, and of the King's House
hold, and died 4th December 1600, aged 88. His Psalms are 24, 56, 75, 102, 105,
108, 110, 117, 118, 132, 136, 140, 141, 143, and 145.
WILLIAM KETHE is described, by Strype and other writers, as a native of Scotland.
He was an exile during the reign of Queen Mary, and one of the translators of the
Geneva Bible. He wrote some popular religious ballads, the most noted of which was
" A Ballad on the Whore of Babylon, called Tye thy mare Tom boye? He became
minister at Child-Ockford, in Dorsetshire. In the dedication of a sermon to the
Earl of Warwick, in 1571, he states, that he had been with his Lordship in New-
haven [in 1 563], as minister and preacher, and had also accompanied him the previous
year [1570] to the North parts, as one of the preachers " of the Queen's Majestie's
armie."' The versions by Kethe, included in the Scotish copies, are Psalms 27, 36,
47, 54, 58, 62, 70, 85, 88, 90, 91, 94, 101, 138, and 142.
ROBERT PONT was successively Commissioner for the diocese of Moray, Provost of
Trinity College, and Minister of St. Cuthberts, Edinburgh. He also filled for several
years the place of a Senator of the College of Justice ; but was deprived of his seat on
the bench, in consequence of an act, prohibiting " all persons exercising functions of
ministrie within the Kirk of God to bear or exercise any office of civil jurisdiction.'"
His Psalms are 57, 59, 76, 80, 81, and 83. In some copies 149 is marked R. P. by
mistake for I. P. or Pulleyn. In May 1601, the General Assembly appointed him " to
revise the Psalms ; and that his labours sould be revised the next Assemblie ;" but no
further notice occurs of any such revisal. He died 8th May 1608, in the 81st year of
his age.
A short specimen of these three chief contributors to our Old Version may be given.
The verses selected will show that some use was made of it in preparing our present
Version : and indeed the second copy of the 100th Psalm, in long metre, All people
that on earth do dwell, and of the 124th Psalm, in peculiar metre, Now Israel may say,
were retained, with only a few slight changes on account of the style. The translator
of the 100th Psalm was William Kethe, and of the 124th, William Whittyngham,
already mentioned as Dean of Durham.
ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS.
PSALME LVII. T. 1—3, and 5. By ROBKKT POUT.
From the Edition printed at Edinburgh by Robert Lekprevik, 1565.
1 Be mercifull to me, 6 God, 3 He will sende down from heauen aboue,
be merciful to me : to saue me, and restore
For why ? my soule in all assaulted From the rebukes of wicked men,
shall euer trust in thee. that fayne wolde me deuoure.
And till these wicked stormes be past, God wil his mercie surely send,
which ryse on euerie syde : and constant trueth also :
Vnder the shaddowe of thy wings, To comforte me, and to defend
my hope shall alwayes byde. against my cruel foe.
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2 I will therefore call to the Lord,
who is moste high alone :
To God who will his worke in me,
bring to perfection.
5 Exalt thy selfe, 6 God, therefore
ahoue the heauens bight :
And ouer all the earth declare
thy glorie and thy might.
PSALM XC. Ver. 1—7 and 12.
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1 O Lord thou hast bene our refuge,
and kept vs safe and sounde :
From age to age, as witnesse can
all we, which true it founds.
2 Before the mountaines were foortb brought,
yer thou the earth didst frame :
Thou wast our great eternal God,
and stil shall be the same.
By WILLIAM KKTHE.
5 They are, so sone as tbou dost storrae,
euen lyke a slepe or shade,
Or like the grasse, which as we knowe,
betymes away doth fade.
6 With pleasant dewes, in breake of day,
it groweth vp full grene :
By night cut downe, it withreth, as
no beautie can be sene.
3 Thou dost vaine man strike downe to dust,
though he be in his floure,
Againe thou saist, Ye Adams sonnes,
returne, to shewe your power.
4 For what is it a thousand yeares
to count them in thy sight :
But as a day which last is past,
or as a watche by night ?
7 O Lord, how sore do we consume
in this thy wrath so hote ?
We feare thy furie be so fierce,
that death shall be our lote.
12 Teache vs therefore to count our dayes,
that we our heartes may bend
To learne thy wisedome and thy trueth :
for that shulde be our end.
PSALM 145, v. 1—6, 11—15, and 19—21. By I. C.
1 O Lord that art my God and King,
Vndoubtedly, I wil thee praise :
I will extoll and blessings sing,
Vnto thyne holy Name alwayes.
2 From day to day I wil thee blesse,
And laude thy Name worlde without end,
3 For great is God, most worthy praise,
Whose greatnes none may comprehend.
4 Race shal thy workes praise vnto race :
And so declare thy power, 6 Lord.
5 The glorious beautie of thy grace,
And wondrous workes, wil I record.
6 And all men shall the power (6 God,)
Of all thy feareful Actes declare :
And I to publishe all abrode,
Thy greatnes, at no tyme will spair.
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1 1 The glorie of thy Kingdoms, they
Do shewe, and of thy power do tell.
12 That so mons sonnes his might knowe may,
And Kingdome great, that doth excel).
13 Thy Kingdome hath no end at all :
Thy Lordship euer doth remaine.
14 The Lord vpholdeth all that fall,
And doth the feble folke sastaine.
15 The eyes of all things, Lord, attend
And on thee waite, that here do Hue :
And thou in season due dost send
Sufficient foode them to relieue.
19 The Lord wil the desire fulfil,
Of such as do him feare and dread :
And he also their crye hear wil,
And saue them in the tyme of nead.
20 He doth preserue them more and lesse,
That beare to him a louing heart.
But workers al of wickednes
Destroye wil he, and clean subuert.
21 My mouth therefore my speache shal frame
To speake the praises of the Lord ;
All fleslie to blesse his holy Name,
For euermore, eke shal accord.
Some proposals for revising this Old Version of the Psalms, and at least one attempt
to supersede it, were made, at different intervals, but without success; and it
continued to be reprinted in a variety of forms, usually with musical notes, until, in
Scotland, it was wholly superseded in the year 1650. There are several editions
of this Old Version printed at Middleburgh and Dort, from 1594 to 1610 or later ;
and it was used by the Scotish congregations in Holland for some years after the pre
sent Version had been received in this country.
It may be noticed, that in the edition of the Psalms, " Printed at Edinburgh be Henrie
Charteris, 1595," (if not also in some previous ones,) there appeared a kind of Doxology
in different measures, added as " The Conclusion, or Gloria Patri eftir the Psalme ;"
the use of which seems at a subsequent period to have been disallowed as a prelatic in
novation. After the Restoration of Charles the Second, (but previous to any change
in regard to the Church,) notice is taken in the Mercurius Caledonius, of a minister,
who, preaching before Parliament on the 27th January 1661, " restored us to Glory
to the Father, to be sung at the end of the Psalmes," and this, it is said " has been
a great stranger to our Kirk these many years."*
11. KING JAMES'S VERSION, 1631.
KING JAMES the First, after his accession to the English Throne, endeavoured to
assimilate the forms of worship in Scotland and England; and having entrusted
" the most learned Divines of the Church," with revising the English translations of
the Bible, which was happily completed in the year 1611, he himself undertook to
perfect a new version of the Psalms in metre, for general use. " The revising of the
Psalms (says Spottiswood) he made his own labour ; and, at such hours as he might
spare from the public cares, went through a number of them, commending the rest to
a faithful and learned servant, who hath therein answered his Majestie's expectation."
(Hist. p. 466.) In the Sermon preached on occasion of the King's Funeral, in 1625, by
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Williams, Bishop of Lincoln, we are further told, his Majesty " was in hand" with this
new Version of the Psalms, " which he intended to have finished, and dedicated withall
to the onely saint of his devotion, the Church of Great Britaine, and that of Ireland,
when God called him to sing Psalmes with the Angels."
The *' faithful and learned Servant" here spoken of, was the Earl of Stirling, (then
Sir William Alexander of Menstrie,) a poet of great distinction in his time, who has
a much better title to be considered the true author of the version, than King James
under whose name it was published. The attention of his son and successor, Charles
the First, having been early drawn to the perfecting of this work, as connected with
his proposed changes in the Church, he seems never to have lost sight of it, so long as
there was any prospect of carrying through those measures to which he was unfortu
nately but too much attached. The following letter respecting it was addressed by
him to the Archbilhop of St. Andrews : —
" Whereas it pleafed our late dear Father of famous and eternall memorie, confider-
ing how imperfect the Pfalmes in Meeter prefentlie vfed ar, out of his zeal to the glorie
of God, and for the good of all the Churches within his dominions, to translate them of
new, Therfor, as We havegevin commandement to our truftie and weilbeloved Sp Wil
liam Alexander knycht, to confider and revew the meeter and poefie thairof, So our
pleafour is, that zow and fome of the moft learned Divynes in that our kingdome confer
them with the originall text, and with the moft exa& translations, and thairefter
certifie back zour opinions vnto ws concerning the fame, whether it be fitting that they
be publifhed and Tung in Churches, inftead of the old translation, or not ; To the intent
that we may negleft nothing fo much importing the memorie of our faid late Father ;
and far less if zow find that it may tend to the advancement of the glorie of God ; and fo
recommending the famyne to your earneft care, We bid, &c. Windfore, 25th Auguft
1626."
This Version was at length published, bearing on the engraved title— " THE PSALMES
of KING DAVID, TRANSLATED by KING IAMES. Cum Privilegio RegicB Maiestatis.'''
Another engraved leaf has the royal arms, and the King's authority, allowing these
Psalmes " to be sung in all the Churches of oure Dominions ;" and this imprint is
at the end of this volume, — " Oxford, Printed by William Turner, Printer to the
famous Univerfity, M.DC.XXXI." 12mo, pp. 329- A patent of exclusive privilege for
the space of thirty-one years print this version, had been granted to Sir William
Alexander, on the 28th December 1627, in consideration " of the great paynes already
taken, and to be taken, in collating and revising the same, and in seeing the first im
pression thairof to be carefullie and well done." When the copies of this edition had
got into circulation, some zealous Presbyterian, probably David Calderwood the His
torian, drew up at considerable length, " Reasons against the Reception of King James's
Metaphrase of the Psalmes." This paper is inserted in the Bannatyne Miscellany,
vol. i. pp. 227 — 256, Edinb. 1 827, 4to, with some further notices respecting the ver-
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sion itself. But in this place it may be sufficient to mention, that Charles the First,
in December 1634, " being fully convinced of the exactnesse" of the translation,
enjoined the Privy Council of Scotland " that no other Psalmes of any edition what
soever, be either printed heirefter within that our Kingdome, or imported thither, either
bound by themselff or otherways, from any forrayne parts." The Version was accord
ingly republished in 1636, and attached to the Service Book of 1637 ; but on col
lation it proves to have been so much altered, in consequence, as it would appear,
of the objections urged against its reception in 1631, that many of the Psalms may be
considered as entirely re-written, although still bearing the same title : " THE PSALMES of
King DAVID : Translated by King IAMES. London, printed by Thomas Harper, 1636,"
folio, pp. 147. It contains music notes, and is printed in long lines, in black letter,
but no notice is taken of its revisal, or of any assistance having been rendered by the
actual translator. Two specimens from these editions may suffice to shew such variations.
PSALME I. PSALME I.
(Edit. Oxford, 1631, 12mo.) CEdit. London, 1636, folio.)
The man is blest that doth not walke The man is blest, who to walko in
where wicked Councells guide : th' ungodlies counsell hates,
Nor in the way of Sinners stands, and stands not in the sinners way,
nor Scorners sits beside. nor sits in scorners seats.
2. But of the Lord he on the law 2. But in the Lords most holy law,
doth ground his whole delight ; he hath his whole delight,
And on his law doth meditate and in his law doth meditate
devoutly day and night. devoutly day and night.
3. Hee shall be like a planted tree,
The streames of waters neare ;
Whose pleasant boughs bring timely fruit,
in season of the yeare.
4. His leafe it never wither shall
as winters blasted prey :
And whatsoever he designes,
shall prosper every way.
5. But wicked men are nothing so,
for they as chaffe shall proue ;
Which whirling windes doe driue away,
and from the earth remoue.
6. And therefore they who wicked are,
In judgement shall not stand :
Nor shall the sinners suffred be
amongst the righteous band.
7. For well the Lord doth know what way
the righteous follow all :
But of vngodly men the way
it surely perish shall.
3. He shall be like a tree that grow'th
the streames of waters neare,
whose pleasant boughs bring timely fruit
in season of the yeare :
4. His leafe shall never withered be,
as winters blasted prey,
and whatsoever thing he doth,
shall prosper every way.
5. They who are wickedly dispos'd,
no such assurance finde :
but like unto contemned chaffe,
are tossed with the winde.
6. And therefore they who wicked are,
in Judgement shall not stand,
nor shall the sinners suffred be
amongst the righteous band.
7. For well the Lord doth know what way
the righteous follow all :
But of them that ungodly are,
the way still perish shall.
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PSALME XXIII.
(Edit. Oxford, 1631.)
The Lord of all my shcpheard is,
I shall from want be free :
2. He makes me in greene pastures lie
and neare calme itreames to be.
3. He doth restore my weary soulo,
that it new strength may take :
And in the pathes of righteousnesse
mee leads, for his names sake.
4. Yea though I through deaths shadow walke,
yet feare I in no sort,
Thou art with me, thy rod and staffe
with comfort mo support,
a Thou for my food before me foes,
a table dost bestow :
And dost with oyle annoynt my head,
and makes my cup o're flow.
6 Thy goodnesse and thy mercy sure,
shall whilst I Hue blesse me :
And of the Lord I in the house
a dwellar still will be.
PSALM XXIII.
(Edit. London, 1636.)
The Lord of all, my Suepheard is
I shall from want be free :
2. He makes me in green pastures lye,
and neare calm streames to be.
3. He doth restore my soul, and leads
the way that I should take :
Into the paths of righteousnesse,
even for his own names sake.
4 Though through the vale of deaths black shade
I walk, He fear no il :
Thou art with me, thy rod and staffe
afford me comfort still.
5 Thou for my food, before my foes
a table dost bestow :
And do'st with oyle annoynt my head,
and mak'st my cup o'reflow.
6 With mercy, goodnesse, all my daies
shall surely follow me :
And in the Lord's own house, I will
a dweller ever be.
The unexpected and irresistible opposition to the Liturgy in July 1637, having ex
tended also to the Psalms, Sir William Alexander, (who had heen created Earl of Stir
ling,) was probably no less disappointed in realizing any pecuniary advantage from his
exclusive monopoly, than his Royal Master must have been in the accomplishment of
the still greater object he had in view when that privilege was granted.
III. FRANCIS Rous's VERSION, 1643.
In tracing the origin of our present Version of the Psalms, it may be noticed as
a singular circumstance that this Country should have been indebted, in the first in
stance, for the translation that was adopted to a resolution of the House of Commons.
It is well known that a similar design with that contemplated by Charles the First,
of bringing about a Uniformity in the doctrine, discipline, and form of church-govern
ment and worship in both Kingdoms, was very nearly accomplished by the Presbyteri
ans in England. The labours of the Westminster Assembly in England were chiefly
directed to promote this object ; and a New Version of the Psalms was specially re
commended to their notice. Several metrical versions had been previously published in
England in the view of superseding Sternholde's ; and although considerable exertions
were made, chiefly in the House of Lords, to adopt a translation by Mr. William Barton,
the preference was awarded by the English Parliament to that by Mr. FRANCIS Rous,
one of their own members and a man of great learning and distinction. He himself
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states, in the preface to his Psalms, printed in 1643, that many passages in the old
version " seemed to call aloud for amendment,"" of which he selected " some pat-
ternes ;" but " apprehending many years past (which experience hath showed to be a
true conjecture) that a forme wholly new would not please many, who are fastned to
things usual and accustomed, I assaied only to change some pieces of the usual ver
sion, even such as seemed to call aloud, and, as it were, undeniably for a change.
These being seen, it was desired that they should be increased ; which being done,
they are here subjoyned." In Wood's Athenae Oxonienses, (edit, by Dr. Bliss, vol.
iii. p. 468,) Rous's version is supposed to have been first printed in 1641. There is
no reason to believe that it appeared earlier than 1643 ; in a diminutive volume,
neatly printed, in 24to or 48vo, with this title : —
" THE PSALMES OF DAVID in English Meeter, set forth by FRANCIS Rous. Psal.
47, Ver. 7. VottTO ncn. Aprill 17, 1643. It is this day ordered by the Committee
of the House of Commons in Parliament for printing, that this Book, entitled, The
Psalmes of David, &c. (according to the desires of many reverend Ministers) be
published for Jhe generall use : And for the true correcting of it, be printed by these
the Author shall appoint. John White.
I do appoint Philip Nevill and Peter Whaky to print these Psalmes.
Francis Rous.
London, Printed by James Young, for Philip Nevill, at the signe of the Gun in
Ivie-lane, 1643.'' This volume contains in all pp. [xii.] 312, and 12 leaves not paged
of " Psalmes of harder and lesse usuall Tunes corrected, and the Tunes not altered,"
along with " A Table of the Psalmes."
The translator, FKANCIS Rous, a younger son of Sir Anthony Rous, Knight, was born
at Halton in Cornwall. Some account of his life and writings will be found in Wood's
Athenae Oxonienses, by Dr. Bliss, (vol. iii. p. 466.) He was several times returned a
Member of Parliament ; and was chosen one of the lay commissioners to the Assembly
of Divines. On the 29th January 1643-44, it was " Ordered, That Mr. Prideaux do
bring in an ordinance for the settling of Mr. Rows in the place of Provost of Eaton
College, and to receive and enjoy all profits, privileges, and emoluments, thereunto be
longing.'1'' This lucrative appointment he held till his death, on the 7th January 1658.
The following are specimens of this rare edition, from a copy in the possession of
Lea Wilson, Esq., Norwood-Hill, Surrey, (a gentleman who possesses an unrivalled
collection of editions in English of the Holy Scriptures). The volume probably had
only a very limited circulation.
PSALM I.
(By FRANCIS Rous. London, 1643.)
The man is blessed, that to walk 2. But in the perfect Law of God
in wicked waies doth feare ; he greatly doth delight;
And stands not in the sinners path, And on that Law doth meditate
nor sits in scorners chair. with pleasure, day and night.
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3. He shall be like a tree by streames
of waters planted neare,
Which in hi* season doth not faile
his pleasant fruit to beare.
Whose leaf shall never Aide nor fall,
but flourish still and stand :
Even so all things shall prosper well
that this man takes in hand.
4. So shall not the ungodly men,
they shall be nothing so ;
But as the dust, which from the earth
the wind drives to and fro.
5. Therefore shall not the wicked men
in judgement stand approv'd ;
But sinners from the just shall be
divided, and remov'd.
6. Because the way of righteous men
Ood doth with favour know,
Whereas the way of wicked men
ends in their overthrow.
PSALM XXIII.
My shepheard is the living Lord,
and he that doth me feed ;
How can I then lack any thing
whereof I stand in need ?
2. In pastures green and flourishing
he makes me downe to lye :
And after drives me to the streames
which run most pleasantly.
3. And when I feele my selfe neere lost,
then home he me doth take ;
Conducting me in his right paths,
even for his owne Names sake.
4. And though I were even at death's doore,
yet would I feare none ill ;
Thy rod, thy staffe do comfort me,
and thou art with me still.
5. Thou hast my table richly stor'd
in presence of my foe ;
My head with oile tbou dost anoint,
my cup doth overflow.
6. Thy grace and mercy all my daies
shall surely follow me ;
And ever in the bouse of God,
my dwelling place shall be.
PSALM LVII. v. 1—4.
Be mercifnll to me, O Lord,
be mercifull to me ;
Because according to thy word
my soule doth trust in thee.
2. Yea, she unto the shadow flies
of thy wings, her to cover ;
Untill these sad calamities
be wholly passed over.
3. To God most High my earnest cry
in praier sent shall be ;
Even to that God, who graciously
performeth all for me.
4. From heaven shall his power descend,
to save me from their spight
That would devoure me, God shall send
his mercy, truth, and might.
PSALM XCIII.
The Lord doth raign, and cloth'd is he
with majesty and light ;
His works do shew him cloth'd to be,
and girt about with might.
2. For this round world by his great strength
established hath he :
Yea, he so surely hath it set
that mov'd it cannot be.
3. Of old most firmly stablisbt is
thy Throne of majestic ;
And thou without beginning art
from all eteraitie.
4. The flouds, O Lord, have lifted up,
they lifted up their voice :
The flouds have lifted up their waves,
and made a mighty noise.
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5. The Lord this noise of many flouds
in might exceedeth farre ;
The Highest overcomes the sea,
when his waves mighty are.
6. Thy testimonies are most sure,
and surely lead to blisse :
And holinesse for ever, Lord,
in thine house comely is.
IV.— VERSIONS BY SIB W. MURE AND MR. ZACHARY BOYD.
Before proceeding to notice the revised copy of Rous's version 1646, it may be men
tioned, that Baillie, although a personal friend of Rous, expresses on more than one
occasion the very favourable opinion he entertained of an unpublished version by Sir
William Mure of Rowallane. On the other hand, some of his countrymen were in
clined to give a preference to the translation by Zachary Boyd, one of the minis
ters of Glasgow. A couple of specimens of each may be here given. Those by Boyd
are from " THE PSALMES OF DAVID IN MEETER : By Mr. ZACHARY BOYD, Preacher of
Gods Word. The third edition. Printed at Glasgow by George Anderson, Anno 1646,"
12mo. M lire's are from a MS. in the possession of James Dennistoun of Dennistoun,
Esq. The author appears to have prepared them for the press, (no doubt at the instiga
tion of some of his friends, such as Baillie), under this title, — w Some Psalmes Translated
and presented for a proof to publick view, wherby to discerne of the whole being con
formed to this Essay : By a Weilwiller to the work of Reformatioun, who makes humble
offer of his weak endeavours." But they are not known ever to have been printed.
One or two other specimens from a more perfect MS. are given in the Appendix to
" The Historie and Descent of the House of Rowallane, By Sir William Mure knight,
of Rowallane. Written in, or prior to 1657." Glasgow, 1825, 8vo.
PSALM I.
BY SIR WILLIAM MURE.
The man is blessed verilie,
who walketh not astray ;
In Counsell of ungodlie men,
nor stands in sinners way :
2. Nor sitts in scorners seat : But setts
on God's law his delight ;
And stedfastlie his law doth mynd
and muse on, day and night.
3. Hee shall be like unto the Tree,
sett by the river syde ;
In seasoun due, which fruit brings foorth,
whose leaves ay blooming byde,
4. His works shall prosper all. Not so
ungodlie men, for they
PSALM I.
By ZACHARY BOYD.
Blest is the man that walks not in
th' ungodlies counsel ill,
Nor stands in ways of sinners, nor
in scorners seats sits still.
2. But in the law of God the Lord,
is chiefly his delight ;
And also he doth meditate
in his law day and night.
3. He shall be like a planted tree,
rivers of waters by ;
That in hii season bringeth foorth
his fruit most plenteously.
His leaf also at any time
not wither shall at all,
And whatsoever thing he doth
it prosper surely shall.
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Shall be like chafle ; which stormie wynds
sweep suddenlie away.
5. In judgement therefore shall not stand,
men wicked and profane ;
Nor sinners, where the righteous flock
assembled doe remaine.
6. For, who so righteous paths persue,
the Lord doth know their way ;
But perrish shall the way of sin,
wherein the wicked stray.
4. The men ungodly are not so,
but in their wicked way
Are like the chafle, which stormy wind
doth quickly drive away.
5. Therefore the ungodly shall not stand
in judgement stedfastly,
Nor sinners in th' assembly of
all sncl, as righteous be.
6. For the Lord knoweth well the way
ev'n of the righteous all :
But the way of ungodly men
most surely perish shall.
PSALM 23.
By Si a WILLIAM MURK.
The Lord my sheepheard is, of want
I never shall complaine,
2. For me to rest on, hue doth grant
greene pastures of the plaine.
3. Hee leads me smoothest brookes beside,
and doth my soul reclame ;
Yea me by righteous paths doth guyd
for glorie of his name.
4. The valley dark of deaths aboade
to passe, I'le fear none ill,
For thow art with me, Lord, thy rode
and staffe me comfort still.
5. For me a table thow dost spread
in presence of my foes ;
With oyle thow dost anoint mine head,
by thee by cup o'rflowes.
6. Mercie and goodnes all my dayes
with me shall surelie stay,
And in thy house, to dwell alwayes
O Lord, my count I'le lay.
PSALME 23.
By Ma. ZACUART BOTD.
The Lord's my shepheard, I'le not want
2. He makes me by good will
Ly in green pastures, he me leads
beside the waters still.
3. My soul likewise he doth restore,
and me to lead doth take
Into the paths of righteousnesse,
and that for his Names sake.
4. Vea, though through valley of deaths shade
I walk; I'le fear no ill,
For thou art with me, thy rod and
thy staffe me comfort still.
5. Thou set'st in presence of my foes
a table me before,
Mine head with oyl thou dost anoint,
my cup it runneth o're.
6. Goodnesse and mercy all the dayos
of my life surely shall
31 e follow, and in the Lord's house
for ever I will dwell.
V. — Rous's REVISED VERSION, 1646.
After the publication of Rous's volume in 1643, the version appears to have under
gone repeated revisals ; and the following notices may be compared with what Baillie
has stated in his Letters, Vol. 2, at pages 120, 121, 259, 280, 286, 293, 321, 326,
and 329 to 332.
In Dr. Lightfoot's Journal of the Westminster Assembly of Divines, this notice oc
curs on the 22d November 1643 : — " The first thing done this morning was, that Sir
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Benjamin Rudyard brought an order from the House of Commons, wherein they require
our advice, whether Mr. Rous's Psalms may not be sung in churches ; and this being
debated, it was at last referred to the three Committees, to take every one fifty
Psalms.
The notices in the Journals of the House of Commons are as follows : —
20° Novembris 1643. — Ordered, That the Aflembly of Divines be defired to give their
advice, whether it may not be ufeful and profitable to the Church, that the Pfalms fet
forth by Mr. Rous, be permitted to be publickly fung, the fame being read before fing-
ing, until the Books be more generally difperfed. (vol. iii. p. 315.)
December 16th 1644. — The Houfe being informed, that divers Divines of the Aflem-
bly were at the door; they were called in; and, Doctor Burgeffe prefented the advice
of the Aflembly of Divines, now by Ordinance of Parliament fitting at Weftminfter,
concerning Vifitation of the Sick. He further informed the Houfe, that touching the
Directory for all parts of publick Worfhip, in ordinary, they have brought up all the
Parts to the Houfe, fave only fome Propofitions touching the Singing of Pfalms.
(ib. vol. iii. p. 724.)
December 27th 1644. — The Houfe being informed, that fome of the Divines of the
Aflembly were at the door; they were called in. Dr. BurgefTe prefented the remaining
Parts of the Directory for Publick Worfhip concerning the keeping Days of Publick
Fails, of Publick Thanksgiving ; and fome Propofitions touching the Singing of Pfalms
(ib. vol. iv. p. 3.)
The Version by Rous having been carefully revised by the Author, who availed him
self of the corrections and amendments recommended by various Committees, it was
republished, under this title, —
" THE PSALMS OF DAVID IN ENGLISH MEETER. ' (Psal. 47, v. 7. VDBTO TO.
Sing ye praises with understanding.} London, printed by Miles Flesher, for the
Company of Stationers, 1646." 12mo, pp. [viii.] and 255. A leaf facing the title
contains the following extract, and serves to identify the work, — " Die Veneris, 4
[14th] Novemb. 1645. — It is this day ordered by the Commons assembled in Parlia
ment, That this Book of Psalms set forth by Mr. Rous, and perufed by the As
sembly of Divines, be forthwith printed : And that it be referred to Mr. Rous to
take care for the printing thereof : and that none do presume to print it, but such as
shall be authorized by him. H. Elsinge, Cler. Parl. Dom. Com."
In the Journals of the House of Commons, this resolution is introduced with this
notice, " The House being informed, That some of the Assembly of Divines were at
the door, they were called in : And Mr. Wilson acquainted the House, That, according
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to a former Order of this House, they had perused the Psalms set out by Mr. Rouse ;
and, as they are now altered and amended, do conceive they may be useful to the Church.
Resolved" &c. as above, [ib. p. 342.] This is likewise noticed in one of the news
papers of the day : — " Friday, Novemb. 14, 1645. — A message from the Assembly of
Divines to both Houses of Parliament, acquainting them, that according to the order
of Nov. 20, 1643, they had perused the Psalmes translated into English out of the
Originall, by Mr. Rouse, conceiving them fit to be publickly made use of throughout
the Kingdome : That they had likewise perused the Psalmes translated by Mr. Bartue
[Barton], who deserved much commendation for his great care and pains in them, but
conceived the other most fit for publike use." — (The Kingdomes Intelligencer, No. 126.)
Oct. 7, 1645. — Upon the humble petition of Wm. Barton, Mafter of Arts, read this
day in the Houfe : It is ordered, &c. That two Books of David's Pfalms, compofed in
Englifh metre by the Petitioner, and prefented to their Lordfhips, are hereby referred
to the Aflembly of Divines, to be read over, and judged by them ; and the refult of
their judgments thereupon returned to this Houfe, that fuch farther direction may be
given touching the fame, as lhall be meet. — (Lords Journals, vol. vii. p. 627.)
Nov. 14, 1645. — Mefiage from the Aflembly concerning Mr. Roufe's and Mr. Bar
ton's Verfions of the Pfalms.
To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF LORDS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT,
The Aflembly of Divines having received from this Honourable Houfe an order,
bearing date October 7 1645, to read over and judge of two Books of David's Pfalms,
compofed in Englifh metre, by Mr. William Barton, and thereupon to return their
judgment to this Honourable Houfe, do humbly certify, That they had long before re
ceived an order from the Honourable Houfe of Commons, bearing date Novemb* 20,
1643, to give their judgment touching the Pfalms compofed in metre by Mr. Roufe, a
Member of that Houfe ; and that thereupon there was a Committee appointed by this
Aflembly to confider of thefe Pfalms ; and that the fame Committee had with much care
perufed, and with great diligence concurred with the fame Learned Gentleman, to amend
and perfect his copy, and had fully finifhed that Work, before they received the said order
from the Honourable Houfe of Lords ; and withall that the greateft part of this verllon
was fent to the General Aflembly of the Church of Scotland, and there put into the hands
of a Committee, and by that Committee, so far as they have examined it, very well
approved ; yet, in obedience to the order of this Honourable Houfe, they appointed a
Committee to confider thereof; and, upon the whole matter, do find reafon to certify
this Honourable Houfe, That albeit the said Mr. Barton hath taken very good and
commendable pains in his Metaphrafe, yet the other verfion, fo exaftly perufed and
amended by the faid Mr. Roufe and the Committee of the Aflembly with long and
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great labour, is fo clofely framed according to the Original Text, as that we humbly
conceive it will be ufeful for the edification of the Church.
CORNELIUS BURQES, Prolocutor pro tempore.
HENRY ROBROUGH, Scriba.
ADONIRAM BYFIELD, Scriba.
(Lords Journals, vol. vii. p. 704.)
March 26, 1646.— Upon reading the Petition of Mr. Wm. Barton, concerning his
Tranflation of his Book of the Pfalms, it is ordered to recommend the fame to the Af-
fembly of Divines, to certify to this Houfe why thefe Pfalms may not be lung in Churches
as well as other Tranflations, by fuch as are willing to ufe them.
(ib. vol. viii, p. 236.)
April 15, 1646.— Ordered, That the Book of Pfalms, fet forth by Mr. Rous, and
perufed by the Affembly of Divines, be forthwith printed in fundry volumes : And that
the faid Pfalms, and none other, fhall, after the firft day of January next, be sung in all
Churches and Chapels within the Kingdom of England, Dominion of Wales, and Town
of Berwick-upon-Tweede ; and that it be referred to Mr. Hous, to take care for the
true printing thereof. — The Lords concurrence to be desired herein.
(Commons Journals, vol. v. p. 509-)
April 16, 1646. — Mr. Knightley carried to the Lords for their concurrence, &c. The
order for finging of Mr. Rous his Pfalms through the Kingdom of England, Dominion
of Wales, and Town of Berwick. (ib. vol. v. p. 511.)
April 18, 1646. — A meffage was brought from the Houfe of Commons by Mr.
Knightly, &c. to defire their Lordfliips concurrence in divers particulars, &c. An order
for the ufmg of the Book of Pfalms, fet forth by Mr. Rous, and appointed by the
Affembly of Divines.
The order concerning the Book of Pfalms tranflated by Mr. Rous, was read twice
and committed to the confideration of thefe Lords following, who are to report their
opinions thereof to this Houfe. Comes Effex, Comes Sarum, L. Vifcount Say and
Scale, Comes Lyncolne, Comes Suffolke, Comes Midd. D8- North, D8- Willoughby,
D8< Bruce, D8* Wharton, any three to meet. The anfwer returned was, That to the
order for ufing the Book of Pfalms tranflated by Mr. Rous, their Lordfhips will fend
an anfwer by meffengers of their own. (Lords Journals, vol. viii. p. 277.)
April 25, 1646. — A meffage was brought from the Affembly of Divines, by Mr.
Walker, &c. as follows, —
To THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE HOUSE OF LORDS ASSEMBLED IN PARLIAMENT.
The Affembly of Divines received, April 9th, from this Honourable Houfe, an
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order bearing date March 26th 1646, to certify this Honourable Houfe why the Trans
lation of the Pfalms made by Mr. Barton, may not be ufed and fung in Churches, by
inch as ihull defire it, as well as any other Tranflation, do humbly return this anfwer ;
That whereas, on the 14th of November 1645, in obedience to an order of this Honour
able Houfe concerning the faid Mr. Barton's Pfalms, we have already commended to
this Honourable Houfe one Tranflation of the Pfalms in Verfe, made by Mr Rous, and
fit-ruled and amended by the fame learned Gentleman and the Committee of the Aflem-
bly, as conceiving it would be very ufeful for the Edification of the Church, in regard
it is fo exactly framed according to the Original Text ; and whereas there are feveral
other Tranflations of the Pfalms already extant, we humbly conceive that, if liberty
Ihould be given to people to fing in Churches every one that Tranflation which they
defire, by that means feveral Tranflations might come to be ufed, yea in one and the
fame congregation at the fame time, which would be a great diftra&ion and hinderance
to edification. CORNELIUS BURGES, Prolocutor pro Tempore.
(ib. vol. viii, p. 283-4.)
(Extract from a paper presented by the Commissioners at London to the Grand Com
mittee there, in December 1616, and laid before the Commission of the General
Assembly at Edinburgh, by Mr. Robert Baillie, 21st January 1647.)
And becaus the iiuging of Pfalmes in Churches is a part of the publike worfhip of
God, We defire that the Paraphrafe of the Pfalms in metre, as it is now examined, cor-
re&ed, and approved by the Afiembly of Divines here, and by the Commiflioners of the
Gen. Aflembly in Scotland, may be lykwife authorized and eftablifhed by Ordinance of
Parliament.
(Minutes of the Commission of the General Aflembly, p. 150.)
(Extract of a Letter from the Commiflioners at London, 2d February 1647.)
The new Pfalme book, reprinted with the laft amendements fent us from your Com
mittee there, is not yet come from the preffe, but it is promifed to we the next week, and
we fliall then, God willing, fend it to yow. (ib. p. 156.)
llth February 1647.
The Commiffion appoynts a letter of encouragement to be writtin to Mr. Zechariah
Boyd, for his paines in his Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes, fhewing that they have fent
them to their Commiflioners at London, to be confidered and made ufe of there by thefe
that ar upon the fame work.
(ib. p. 157.)
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(Extract of a Letter from the Commissioners at London, 9th February 1647.)
The new Pfalme book cannot be ready till the next week. So commending your
labours to the bleffing of God, we reft,
Your affe&ionat Brethren to ferve yow,
Worcefter-Houfe, the SAMUEL RUTHERFURD.
9th of Febr 164^. GEO. GILLESPIE.
Direft, For the Right Reverend the Commiffioners
of the Gen. Affembly of the Kirk of Scotland. (ib. p. 165.)
(Extract of a Letter from the Commissioners at London, presented to the Commission,
23d February 1647.)
WEE now fend yow the new Edition of the Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes as it wes ap
proved by the Affembly heir, and by yourfelves ; the Animadverfions wch you fent us
being taken in their propper places, as the worthy Gentleman, who hath taken moft
paines in the worke, affureth us. If yow be now fatiffied with it as it is, wee fhall de-
,fire to know fo much. One Pfalme-book in the three Kingdomes will be a confiderable
part of Uniformity, if it can be fullie agreed upon both there and here : And we believe
it is generally acknowledged, there is a neceflitie of fome change, there being fo many
juft exceptions againft the old and ufuall Paraphrafe. And we humblie conceive there
will be as little controverfy that this which we now fend yow, as it hath come through
the hands of more examiners, fo it will be found as neir the originall as any Paraphrafe in
meeter can readily be, and much neerer then other works of that kynd, which is a good
compenfation to mak up the want of that Poeticall liberty and fweet pleafant running,
which fome defire. However, wee expe£t to know your pleafure in this, and in any
other thing contained in our former letters, which yourfelves fhall judge to need an
anfwere ; and fo wee reft,
Your moft affeftionat Brethren to ferve yow,
Worcefter-houfe, the 16th G. WYNRAME.
of Febr. 164£. SAMUEL RUTHERFURD.
GEO. GILLESPIE.
Direct for the Right Reverend the Commiffioners
of the Gen. Affembly, mett at Edr-
The Commiffion of Aflembly thinks it verie neceffar that a number of the new Para
phrafe of the Pfalmes be writtin for ; and appoynts the clerk to fend them to Prefby-
teries; and returne to the letter from the Commiffioners at London, this following anfwer:
REVEREND AND LOVING BRETHREN,
YOURS of the 16th of this inftant moneth we have received this day, together with
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the new Edition of the Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes, whereof we cannot give opinion
by this occaiion, efpecially feing fo few copies have been fent. ^Ye do acknow
ledge that one Pfalme-book in the three Kingdoraes wer a confiderable part of Unifor
mity ; but it can hardly be fullie agreed upon, if Prefbyteries gave a previous confidera-
tion of it before the meeting of the Aflembly ; which may give them great fatiffa&ion, and
facilitat the approbation of it in the Aflembly. Therfor, yow will be pleafed to fend
down a number of copies of this late Edition to our Clerk, whom we have appoynted to
caufe difpatch them to Prefbyteries with diligence, to be confidered by them ; which we
think the bed and fureft way to obtaine a full approbation of the work heir ; wherof
we make litle queftion if yow fend a competent number of copies in tytne. . . ...
\Ve remain, Your loving Brethren,
The COMMISSIONERS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Edinb. 23d Febry. 1647.
Direct for their Reverend and Loving
Brethren, the Commiffioners of the
Kirk of Scotland at London.
(Minutes, p. 171-4.) .
Edinb. 18th Martij 1647, Poft meridiem.
This day two letters from the Commissioners at London were read with the papers
there inclofed. Tenor of the letters followes :• —
KEVEREND AND BELOVED BRETHREN,
WEE received yefterday your's of Febr 23d, and fhall take care to provyde (accord
ing to your defire) as many copies as can be had of the new Paraphrafe of the Pfalms
in metre Wee have already fpoken for 70 copies, which we fhall, God willing, fend
with the firft occafion. . . .
We reft, Your moft loving Brethren,
G. WTNRAME.
Worcefter-houfe, the 2d SAMUEL RUTHERFURD.
of Marche 164^. GEO. GILLESPIE.
Direct for the Right Reverend the Commif
fioners of the Gen : Aflembly, mett at Edr.
REVEREND AND LOVING BRETHREN,
WEE have, according to your defire, provided a number of copies of the new Para
phrafe of the Pfalmes in Metre, as it is approved by the Aflembly of Divines, and fince
corre£ted in feverall places according to the Animadverfions which ye fent us. Wee have
now fourfcore copies in readines to be fent by the firft fhip to your Clerk, that by him
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they may be direfted to the feverall Prefoyteries . . .So befeeching the Lord to
dire£t and bleffe yow in all your affairs, we reft,
Your loving Brethren to ferve yow,
G. WYNBAME.
Worcefter-houfe, the 9th SAMUEL RUTHERFURD.
of March 164|. GEO. GILLESPIE.
Direft for the Right Reverend the Com1"8 of
the Generall Affembly of the Kirk of Scot
land, mett at Edinburgh.
(Minutes, pp. 184-185.)
Edinb. 8th Julij 1647, Ante meridiem.
Recommends to Mr. Johne Adamfone to revife Rowes Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes,
and Mr. Johne Rowers obfervationes thereupon, and to have his opinion thereof ready
for the next Affembly. (ib. p. 234.)
Sefs. XXV— Edinburgh, 28th Auguft 1647, Ante meridiem.
ACT FOR REVISING THE PARAPHRASE OF THE PSALMES BROUGHT FROM ENGLAND, WITH A
RECOMMENDATION FOR TRANSLATING THE OTHER SCRIPTURALL SONGS IN MEETER.
The Generall Affembly having confidered the report of the Committee concerning
the Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes fent from England, and finding that it is very neceffary
that the said Paraphrafe be yet revifed : Therefore doth appoint Mafter John Adamfon
to examine the firft fourty Pfalmes, Mafter Thomas Craufurd the fecond fourty, Mafter
John Row the third fourty, and Mafter John Nevey the laft thirty Pfalms of that Para
phrafe ; and in their examination they fhall not only obferve what they think needs to
bee amended, but alfo to fet downe their own eflay for correcting thereof ; and for this
purpofe recommends to them to make ufe of the travels of Rowallen, Mafter Zachary
Boyd, or of any other on that fubjeft ; but efpecially of our own Paraphrafe, that what
they finde better in any of thefe works may be chofen, and likewife they fhall make ufe
of the animadverfions fent from Prefbyteries, who for this caufe are hereby defired to
haften their obfervations unto them ; and they are to make report of their labours
herein to the Commiffion of the Affembly for Publike Affaires, againft their firft meeting
in February next. And the Commiffion, after revifing thereof, fhall fend the fame to .
Provincial 1 Affemblies to bee tranfmitted to Prefbyteries, that by their further confidera-
tion, the matter may be fully prepared to the next Affemblie. And becaufe fome
Pfalmes in that Paraphrafe .fent from England are compofed in verfes which do not
agree wth the common tunes, therefore it is alfo recommended that thefe Pfalmes be
likewife turned in other verfes which may agree to the common tunes ; that is, having
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the firft line of eight fyllabs, and the fecond line of fix, that fo both verfions being to
gether, ufe may bee made of either of them in congregations as fhall bee found conve
nient. And the Aflembly doth further recommend that Mr. Zachary Boyd be at the
paines to tranflate the other Scripturall Songs in meeter, and to report his travels alfo to
the ('» mi million of Aflembly, that after their examination thereof, they may fend the
fame to Prefbyteries to be there confidered untill the next Generall Aflemblie.
(Printed Acts of the General Assembly.)
(Extract of a Letter to the Aflembly of Divynes at Weftminfter.)
The other things communicated from thence unto this Church, namely, a Dire&ory
of Church Government, Catechifme, and new Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes in metre, are
printed and published here, to be confidered and examined againft the next Generall
Aflemblie, to be held in July 1648.
Subfcribed in name of the Commiflion of the Generall
Aflembly of the Kirk of Scotland, by
Edinburgh, 26th November 1647. Mr. ROBERT DOUGLASS, Moderator.
Direft, To their Reverend and welbeloved brethren,
the Aflembly of Divines at Weftminfter, the
Minifters of London, and all other well-affe&ed
Brethren of the Miniftrie of England. (Minutes, p. 278.)
•• Edinb. 14 Aprilis 1648, Ante meridiem.
The Comraiffion appoynts the Minifters of this town, or any three of them, to be a
committee to examine the corrections of the Brethren appoynted to revife Roufe Pfalms,
and to conferr with thofe brethren therupon, and to report their opinions to this Com
miflion. The firft dyet upon Mononday at 10 houres in this place.
(ib. p. 375.)
Edinb. 20 Aprilis 1648, Poft meridiem.
The Commiflion appoynts Mre John Adamfon, Doctor Colvill, James Hamiltoun,
John Smith, John Neve, and Patrick Gillafpie, James Gutterie, to revife Roufe's
Pfalmes, and the amenderaents fent in from thefe that wer appoynted by the Aflembly to
revife them, and to report their opinions. Their meeting to be the morne at 7 houres
in the Colledge." (ib. p. 386.)
Edinb. 1 May 1648, Poft meridiem — Sederunt.
Ministers. Elders.
MR. RoT- DOUGLAS, Modr. MR. ZACHARIE BOYD. LIBBERTOUN.
MR. JAMES HAMILTOUN. MR. GEORGE LESLIE. FINDAWHIE.
MR. EVAN CAMERON MR. RoT> BLAIR. SIR JAMES STEWART.
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MB. SAMUELL RUYRPUHD. MB. JOHN BELL. GEOBOE POBTEBPIELD.
MB. HEUGH MACKALI/. MB. JAMES GUTHBIE. LAWBENCE HENDERSON.
MB. JOHN NEVE. MB. MUNGO LAW. JOHN SEMFLB.
\
The Commiflion appoynts Mr. Ho* Douglafs, George Gillafpie, William Colvill,
James Hamiltoun, John Smith, with Mr. John Adamfon, to revife Roufe's Paraphrafe
of the Pfalmes in meeter, the Animadverfiones thereupon, and to Report their opinions.
(Minutes, p. 433.)
Edinburgh, 10th Auguft 1648. — Sefs. xxxvni.
ACT FOB EXAMINING THE PARAPHRASE OF THE PsALMS AND OTHEB ScBIPTUBALL SONGS'
The Generall Aflemblie appoints Roufe['s] Paraphrafe of the Pfalms, with the correc
tions thereof, now given in by the perfons appointed by the laft Affembly for that pur-
pofe, to be fent to Prefbyteries that they may carefully revife and examine the fame,
and thereafter fend them with their corre&ions to the Commiflion of this Affembly to be
appointed for publick affairs, who are to have a care to caufe re-examine the Aniraad-
verfions of Prefbyteries, and prepare a report to the next Generall Affembly ; intimat
ing hereby, that if Prefbyteries be negligent hereof, the next Generall Affembly is to go
on and take the fame Paraphrafe to their consideration without more delay : And the
Affembly recommends to Mailer John Adamfon and Mr. Thomas Craufurd to revife the
labours of Mr. Zachary Boyd upon the other Scripturall Songs, and to prepare a report
thereof to the said Commiflion for publick affairs, that after their examination the fame
may be alfo reported to the next Generall Affembly.
(Printed Acts of the General Assembly.)
Edinburgh, 5 January 1649,- Ante meridiem.
THE Commiffion of the Generall Affembly having this day received a printed copie
of Rows Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes, corrected according to thefe Animadverfions given
in to the late Affembly : Therefore, doth appoint a competent number of thefe corrected
copies, now printed, to be fent to Prefbyteries, that according to the Aft of Affembly,
they may revife and examine the fame, and thereafter return the Animadverfions and
correftions thereof to this Commiffion ; otherwife the faid next Affembly is to goe on and
take this Paraphrafe to their confideration without delay.
(Minutes, p. 115)
(Extract from a Letter directed to Prefbyteries.)
RIGHT REVEBEND,
YEE fhall receive copies of the new Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes, at a merk the
peece, which yow will be pleafed to perufe carefully, and that yow would amend any
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fault you- lindc in them, and fend in your corrections to us with diligence ; for it is not
enough to finde out faults except yee alfo fet downe your owne eflay correcting the
fame.
Your loving Brethren,
The COMMISSIONERS of the GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
Edr. 30th January 1649- (Minutes, p. 147.)
Edinb. 7 Junij 1649. — The Coramiffion appoints the Reports of the corre&ions of
Roufe's Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes to be delyvered into the Clerk, that he may lend
them out to Mr. Johne Adamfone, to be confidered againft the next Aflembly.
(ib. p. 226.)
Edinburgh, 6th Auguft 1649- — Ante meridiem. Sess. ult.
REFERENCE TO THE COMMISSION FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRES FOR RE-EXAMINING THE
PARAPHRASE OF THE PSALMES, AND EMITTING THE SAME FOR PUBLICKE USE.
The Generall Aflembly having taken fome view of the new Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes
in Meeter, with the corrections and animadverfions thereupon, fent from feveral perfons
and Prefbyteries, and finding that they cannot overtake the review and examination of
the whole in this Aflembly ; therefore, now after fo much time, and fo great paines about
the correcting and examining thereof, from time to time, fome yeares bygone, that the
worke may come now to fome conclufion, they do ordain the Brethren appointed for per-
ufmg the fame during the meeting of this Aflembly, viz. Matters James Hamiltoun,
John* Smith, Hew Mackail, Robert Traill, George Hutchefon, and Robert Lowrie,
after the diflblving of this Aflembly, to goe on in that worke carefully, and to report their
travels to the Commiflion of the Generall Aflembly for publick affaires, at their meeting
at Edinburgh in November. And the faid Commiflion, after perufall and re-examina
tion thereof, is hereby authorized, with full power, to conclude and eftablifh the Para
phrafe, and to publilh and emit the fame for publick ufe.
A. KER.
(Printed Acts of the General Assembly.)
Edinb. 7. Auguft. 1649- — The Commiflion recommends to the Brethren appointed
by the Generall Aflembly for correcting the Pfalmes, to haften their corrections ; and fo
foone as they have done, that the Moderator conveen the Commiflion, or a quorum ol
thefe that are neareft, to confider their travells, and prepare the matter againft the Quar
terly meeting.
(Same date.) — The Commiflion of Aflembly considering the power they have from the
late Affembly to give a competent and honeft acknowledgment and reward to the young
man that hes been employed in wrytting of the feveral copies of the Paraphrafe of the
Pfalmes, corrected from time to time, Doe therefore appoint the Brethren appointed to
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revife that Paraphrafe, who can belt know his paines, to confider what (hall be given
unto him ; and to report their opinions therein to the nixt Quarterly meeting.
(Minutes, p. 234.)
Edinb. 20 Novemb. 1649, Poft meridiem.— Sederunt.
Ministers. Elders.
MR. ROT- DOUGLAS, Modr. MR. SAM^. RUTHEBFUIBD. QUHYTBANK.
MB. GAVE IN YOUNG. MB. THOMAS LUNDIE.
Mu. GEOBGE HUTCHESON. MR. JAMES HAMILTOUN.
MB. JoN- MONCREIFP. MR. JAMES GUTTEBIE.
MB. WM- OLIPHANT. MR. HEW MACRAE LL.
MB. GEORGE BENNET. MR. GEORGE LESLIE.
MB. JOHN LIVINGSTOUN. MR. PAT- GILLASPIE.
MR. JOHN SCOTT. MR. JOHN HAMILTOUN.
MR. JOHN DOUGLAS. MR. EPHRAIM MELVILL.
MR. Jo*- DALZELL. MR. ARTHUR FORBES.
MR. DAVID LAYNG. MR. JoN- NEIVE.
MR. MUNGO LAW. MR. JAMES ROTSONE.
MR. WM Row. MR. Jo»- CUBBIE.
MB. ROT- HOME. MR. THOMAS DONALDSON.
This feffione fpent only in the reading and examining the Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes. —
The nixt meeting the morne at 8 houres. (Minutes, p. 244.)
Edinb. 21 Novemb. 1649, Poft meridiem. — A number of the Pfalmes of the new
Paraphrafe this day furveyed. (ib. p. 245.)
Edinb. 22 Novemb. 1649- — A number of the Pfalmes this feffion furveyed.
(ib p. 246.)
Eodem die, poft meridiem. — A number of the Pfalmes this day furveyed and examined.
(ib. p. 247.)
Edinb. 23 Novemb. 1649. — The reft of this Seffion fpent in reading of the Pfalmes.
(ib. p. 248.)
Eodem die, poft meridiem. — Sederunt.
Ministers. Elders.
MB. RoT- DOUGLAS, Mode1". MB. JOHN LIVINGSTON. LORD REGISTER.
MB. GEOBGE HUTCHESONE. MB. JAMES HAMILTON. L. CBAIGHALL.
MB. JAMES GUTTEBIE. MB. GEOBGE LESLIE. L. BRODIE.
MB. RoT- Row. MR. Jo». NEAVE. L. THEK.DEPUTE.
MR. PAT. GILLASPIE. MR. WM. Row. QUHVTBANK.
MR. JOHN MURRAY. MR. GEORGE BENNET. SR JOHN CHEISLIE.
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MB. HEW 31 ACKA r i.i. MB. Jo*. DOUGLAS.
MB. DAVID LAY NO. MB. THOMAS LUNDIK.
MB. MUNOO LAW.
ACT FOB ESTABLISHING AND AUTHORIZING THE NEW PSALMES.
The Commiflion of the Generall Affembly having with great diligence confidered the
Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes in Meter, fent from the Affembly of Divines in England by
our Commiffioners, whilft they were there, as it is corre&ed by former Generall Affem-
blies, Committees from them, and now at laft by the Brethren deputed by the late Aflem-
bly for that purpofe : And having exactly examined the fame, doe approve the faid
Paraphrafe, as it is now compiled : And therefore, according to the power given them
by the faid Affembly, doe appoint it to be printed and publifhed for publik ufe : Here
by authorizing the fame to be the only Paraphrafe, of the Pfalmes of David to be fung
in the Kirk of Scotland ; and difcharging the old Paraphrafe and any other than this new
Paraphrafe, to be made ufe of in any congregation or family after the firft day of Maij
in the year 1650 ; And for Vniformity in this parte of the Worfhip of God, doe
ferioufly recommend to Prefbyteries to caufe make publick intimation of this Aft, and
take fpeciall care that the fame be tymeoufly put to execution, and duely obferved.
COMMISSION TO THE MINISTEBS OF EDINBURGH FOR ORDERING THE PRINTING THE NEW
' .- PSALMES, AND FOB SATISFIEING THE TRANSCRIBERS.
The Commiffion of the Generall Affembly, for the better ordering of the printing of
the new Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes, that they may be corre&ly printed, and that the
people be not extortioned by Printers or Stationers in the prices, doe hereby give power
to the Moderator and Minifters of Edinburgh, or any three of them, with the Clerk, to
order the printing of the faid new Paraphrafe, and to fett doune pryces thereof, and to
take fuch courfe with Printers and Stationers as they may neither wrong the people, nor
any of them another. Recommending efpecially to them to have a care that copies be
corre&ly tranfcribed for the preffe, and that the printed copies be well corrected. Giving
them alfo power to determine and modifie what they think reafonable to give to the
tranfcriber of the copies for all his paines he lies or fhall be at.
(Minutes, pp. 248 and 253.)
Edinburgh, 8th January 1650.
The Committee of Eftates having confidered the Englifh Paraphrafe of the Pfalms of
David in Meeter, prefented this day unto them by the Commifs. of the General Af
fembly, together with their A£t and the A& of the late Affembly, approving the faid
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Paraphrafe, and appointing the fame to be fung through this Kirk. Therefore, the
Committee doth alfo approve the faid Paraphrafe, and interpone their authority for the
publifhing and praftifmg thereof; hereby ordaining the fame, and no other to be made
ufe of throughout this Kingdom, according to the tenour of the faid Afts of the General
Afiembly and their Commiilioners.
T. HENDERSON.
VI. — THE PRESENT VERSION, 1650.
The preceding notices, chiefly extracted from the Journals of the Lords and Com-
mons, and from the Original Minutes of the Commission of the General Assembly,
will shew the very great care bestowed in revising Rous's translation of the Psalms.
Along with these extracts, the reader might compare the additional passages contain
ed in Baillie's correspondence respecting this Version, (Vol. II. pages 379 and 401, and
Vol. III. pages 3, 12, 21, 60, and 97.) It would seem from some of these notices
that one or more intermediate editions between 1646 and 1650, must have been printed,
for the use of Committees in revising the text, but no such copies are known to be
preserved. At length, after all hope of its being adopted in England as part of the
proposed Uniformity had been frustrated, the new Version, being duly sanctioned for
use in this country, was published under this title ; —
" THE PSALMS OF DAVID in Meeter : Newly translated, and diligently compared with
the Original Text and former Translations : More plain, smooth, and agreeable to the
Text than any heretofore. Allowed by the authority of the General Aflembly of the
Kirk of Scotland, and appointed to be fung in Congregations and Families. Edinburgh :
Printed by Evan Tyler, Printer to the King's Moft Excellent Majelty, 1650." Small
8vo, pp. 15 and 308. Prefixed are the Acts of the General Assembly, 6th August, of
the Assembly's Commission 23d November 1649, and of the Committee of Estates,
8th January 1650, (as already quoted,) authorizing this Version to be used from and
after the 1st May 1650.
This was the first authorized edition of our present Version ; and other editions by
Tyler were printed in the same year. Since then it has continued to be republished in
countless numbers ; and having now remained unaltered for the space of nearly two
centuries, (unless some slight variations in orthography,) it would be unnecessary to
insert any specimens of it, except for the convenience of comparison with the text of
1646. That this Version of the Psalms should have remained so long in use must be
mainly attributed to the great care that was bestowed by many learned divines to
render it at once a simple and faithful paraphrase of the original text. To a modern critic
it will no doubt appear destitute of poetical sentiment or felicity of expression. Fidelity,
however, was the great object aimed at, and mere elegance was sacrificed to a close ad
herence to the original. In accomplishing this object frequent use was made of former
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Even unto God who all thing* doth
for me work perfectly.
3. He shall from heaven send, and me
from hit reproach defend
That would devour me ; God his truth
and mercy forth shall send.
PSALM XCI1I.
(Prom the Edition, 1646.)
1 . God reigns ; God's cloth'd with majesty ;
God is with strength array'd ;
He girds himself therewith ; the world
moves not, it is BO stay'd.
2. Thy throne is fixt of old, and thou
art from eternity.
3. The flouds, Lord, raise, flouds raise their
voice;
flouds raise their waves on by.
4. But yet the Lord that is on high
is more of might by farre,
Than noise of many waters is,
or great sea-billows are.
5. Thy testimonies every one,
in faithfulnesse excel! ;
And holinesse for ever, Lord,
thine house becommeth well.
To God, who doth all things for me
perform most perfectly.
3. From heav'n he shall send down, and me
from his reproach defend
That would devour me : God his truth
and mercy forth shall send.
PSALM XC1II.
(From the Edition, 1650.)
The Lord doth reign, and clolh'd is He
with majesty most bright.
His works do shew him clothed to he
and gird about with might.
The world is also utablished,
that it cannot depart.
2. Thy throne is fixt of old, and thou
from everlasting art.
3. The flouds, O Lord, have lifted up,
they lifted up their voice,
The floods have lifted up their waves,
and made a mighty noise.
4. But yet the Lord, that is on high,
is more of might by far,
Than noise of many waters if,
or great sea billows art.
5. Thy testimonies, everyone,
in faithfulnesse excel! :
And liolinesse, for ever, Lord,
thine house becometh well.
In England, some attempts still continued to be made in favour of Barton's Verfion,
(first printed in 1644,) as appears from the following entry in the Journals of the Houfe
of Commons : —
Sept. 27, 1650.— The humble Petition of Wm. Barton, Preacher of God's Word,
was this day read ; Ordered, That it be referred to Mr. Carill, Mr. Nye, Mr. Bond,
Mr. Stronge, Mr. Sedgewick, and Mr. Byfield, or any three of them, to perufe and con-
fider of the Tranflation of the Pfalms set out by Mr. Rous, and fince reviewed by the
faid Wm. Barton ; and, if they fliall approve of the fame, then to license the printing
thereof. — (Vol. vi. p. 474.)
•* The Book of Pfalms in Metre : clofe and proper to the Hebrew : fmooth and plea-
ant for the Metre. To be fung in ufuall and known Tunes. By WILLIAM BARTON, Mr
of Arts,"" appeared at London, printed by Roger Daniel, 1654, 12mo. Prefixed is this
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authority for printing it. " Wednefday January llth 1653[-4.] At the Councill at
White-hall. Ordered by his Highnes the Lord Proteftor, and the Councill, That Mr.
William Barton have the fole printing of his tranflation of the Pfalms," &c. This
edition differs materially both from the firft publication of Barton's Pfalms (licenfed
by the Committee of the Houfe of Commons concerning Printing, April 2nd 1644,)
" London, printed by Matthew Simmons for the Companie of Stationers, 1644," 18mo,
and from another edition, " London, printed by G. M. 1645," 12mo, with " the
approbation of more than forty eminent Divines." The later editions contain " Amend
ments, and addition of many frefh Metres." In the copies fubfequent to 1654, the
Author (who takes credit to himfelf for having, " compiled the whole Book, as near
as may be, in the fame order of words with the original, and for the most part in
as perfect Prose as Verse?) has introduced this fentence into the middle of his pre
face to the Reader : " The Scots of late (he fays) have put forth a Pfalm-Book, moft-
what compofed out of mine and Mr. Roufe his, but it did not give full fatiffa&ion, for
fomebody hath been at charge to put forth a new edition of mine, and printed fome
thoufands of mine in Holland, as it is reported ; But whether they were printed there
or no, I am in doubt ; for I am fure that 1500 of my Books were heretofore printed
by ftealth in England, and carried over to Ireland."
Several eminent Non conformift Divines in London and the neighbourhood having
adopted our prefent metrical verfion of the Pfalms, in the editions printed at London,
1673, 1683, &c. they prefixed an addrefs " to the Reader," which concludes thus : —
" The Tranflation which is now put into thy hands, cometh neareft to the Original of
any that we have feen, and runneth with fuch a fluent fweetnefs, that we thought fit to
recommend it to thy Chriftian acceptance ; Some of us having ufed it already, with
great comfort and fatiffaftion." Signed : —
THO. MANTON, D. D. THO. DOOELITTLE.
HENR. LANGLEY, D. D. THOMAS VINCENT.
JOHN OWEN, D. D. NATHANAEL VINCENT.
WILLIAM JENKYN. JOHN RYTHEB.
JA. INNES. WILL. TOMSON.
THO. WATSON. Nico. BLAKIE.
THO. LYE. CHARLES MORTON.
MAT. POOLE. EDM. CALAMY.
Jo. MILWARD. W">L- CARSLAKE.
JOHN CHESTER. JAMES JANEWAY.
GEO. COCKAYN. JOHN HICKES.
MATTHEW MEADE. JOHN BAKER.
ROBERT FRANKLIN. Ri- MAYO.
4 A
VOL. III.
554 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1650.
WILLIAM BARTON took his degree as B. A. at Oxford, 23d October 1633. In 1656
he was appointed Minifter of St. Martin's, Leicefter; and had the re&ory of Cadeby
given him by Cromwell; but he was eje&ed in 1662. He died sometime between
1672, when he publifhed " Two Centuries of feleft Hymns and Spiritual Songs," and
1682, when an edition was printed of his " Book of Pfalms," bearing on the title to be
" as he left it finiflied in his lifetime.'" In this amended ftate his verfion continued to
be reprinted till 1705.
VII. — SCRIPTURAL SONGS AND PARAPHRASES.
As a suitable sequel to these notices, the following extracts respecting certain pro
posed additions to the Psalmody may be given : —
Edinb. 25 February 1648. — The Commiffion defires Mr. Johne Adamson to revife
Mr. David LeitclTs papers of Poecie, and give his opinion to the fommiffion thereof.
(Minutes of the Commission, p. 306.)
Edinb. 5 April. 1648. — Concerning Mr. David Leitch, The Commifiion appoynts the
letter following to be written to the Presbytery of Allan, [in the margin, Ellon.]—
RIGHT REVEREND AND WELBELOVED BRETHREN,
THESE are to ftiow yow, that our brother Mr. David Leich, being employed in
Par^phrafing the Songs of the Old and New Teftament, hes been in this town fome
tyme, and for als much as he yet is appointed to continue in that employment, our
earned defyre is, that yow endevour your felfes joyntly, for his further encouragment in
that work, provyding that it be no hinderance to him in his prefent charge. So re-
comending yow and your labours to the blifiing of God, Wee reft,
Your louiog Brethren, etc.
Edinb. 5 Apryll 1648.
Dire& to their Reverend Brethren of the Prefbytery of Ellon. (ib. p. 362.)
Edinb. 1° January 1650, Ante meridiem.
The Commiffion of the AfTembly understanding the paines of Mr. Jo. Adamfon, Mr.
Zacharie Boyd, and Mr. Ro* Lowrie have been at in the tranflation of the Pfalmes and
other Scripturall Songs in Meeter, and how ufefull their travells have been in the cor
recting of the Old Paraphrafe of the Pfalmes, and in compileing the New, Doe therefore
returne them heartie thanks for thefe their labours, and that the Moderator fhew this to
Mr. Jo. Adamfone, Mr. Robert Lowrie, and wrytte to Mr. Zacharie Boyd to this purpofe.
(Minutes, p. 260.)
Edinb. 22d Feb^ 1650.
The Commiffion underftanding that Mr. Ro1. Lowrie has taken fome paines in put-
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ting the Scripturall Songs in Meter, They therefore defire him to prefent his labours
therein to the Commiffiou at their nixt meeting. (ib. p. 286.)
It may be added, that in the Minutes of the Commission, no further notice is taken
either of these Scriptural Songs by Leitch, or Lowrie ; which do not appear ever to have
been printed. Of the persons commended for " their travells and pains,"" in this pious
work, a few particulars may be mentioned: 1. MR. JOHN ADAMSON held the office
of Principal of the University of Edinburgh from 1623, till his death in November 1653,
and was the author of various works. 2. MR. ZACHARY Bo YD, one of the Ministers of
Glasgow, has obtained a much greater degree of notoriety. To a work (in verse) called
«* The Garden of Zion," printed at Glasgow 1644, he annexed, and afterwards re-
published, with his Psalms, in a revised form, " The Songs of the Old and New Tes
tament." He died at Glasgow in the beginning of 1654 • but his fond expectations, if
not positive injunctions, for having his works published after his death were wholly
disregarded. 3. MR. DAVID LEITCH, (in Latin Leochaeus,) was minister of Ellon in
Aberdeenshire. He was previously a Professor in King's College, Aberdeen, and pro
nounced, 9th April 1635, a Latin funeral oration on the death of Patrick Forbes of
Corse, Bishop of Aberdeen, which is included, along with a Latin poem by him, in the
volume of the Bishop's Funerals, printed that year in Aberdeen ; and in 1637, he also
published an academical oration, «' Philosophia lllachrymans," &c. In an account of the
" Learned men and writers of Aberdeen," it is said, Leitch " wrote several learned
poems, and was one of the chaplains to King Charles II. and also of the army that went
into England." A volume of Latin poetry by him was printed at London 1657, 12mo.
4. MR. EGBERT LOWRIE was one of the Ministers of Edinburgh. Having conformed
at the Restoration, he was appointed Dean of Edinburgh ; and in 1671 he was ad
vanced to be Bishop of Brechin. He died in 1677.
The proposal of enlarging the Psalmody by joining Paraphrases of other passages of
Scripture, was afterwards brought under the deliberation of the Assembly, at various in
tervals. See the printed Acts of Assembly, 1706, act 4 : Ass. 1707, act 16 : and Ass. 1708,
act 15. In 1745 a collection of such Paraphrases was published, and being remitted by the
Assembly to the several Presbyteries, it came to be used in churches in public worship.
The Assembly in 1775 appointed a Committee to revise that collection ; and it was
again published, with considerable alterations and additions, and retransmitted for the con
sideration of Presbyteries, 1st June 1781 ; and meanwhile it was allowed " to be used
in public worship, in congregations where the Minister finds it for edification." This
collection of Translations and Paraphrases in verse, although only partially adopted at
the time, is now in general use throughout the country ; and it has been contemplated
to have the collection further enlarged.
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Before dismissing the subject! of the Psalmody of our Church, it is worthy of notice, that
the editions of the Old Version, previous to 1650, are almost all accompanied with the
tunes set to music. This would imply a much more general knowledge of sacred music
than now prevails ; but instructions in singing then formed an ordinary part of educa
tion ; and music-schools were supported, at least, in the chief borough towns. A striking
incident is recorded in relation to one of these tunes. In 1582, John Durie, one of the
Ministers of Edinburgh, after a temporary suspension and banishment, (in consequence
of having incurred the displeasure of some of King James's favourites,) on his return
was met at the Netherbow Port, or one of the gates of the City, " by the haill Toun ;"
and the whole assembled multitude marching up the High Street, with their heads
uncovered, and with loud voices joined in singing the old version of the 124th Psalm,—
Now Israel may say, and that truly,
If that the Lord had not our cause maintained, &c.
In the edition of the Psalms, printed at Edinburgh, by the heirs of Andrew Hart,
1635, 8vo, the Editor, (only known by his initials, " E. M." but who appears to have
been a devoted enthusiast,) has given the tunes in four Parts, from a careful examination
of the best copit s ; while he acknowledges " the whole composition of the Parts to
belong to the primest Musicians that ever this Kingdom had, as Dean John Angus,
Blackball, Smith, Peebles, Sharp, Black, Buchan, and others, famous for their skill in
this kind." (See Introduction to Johnson's Scots Musical Museum, edit. 1839, vol. i.
pp. xxvi-xxxiv.) Some of these airs are foreign, either German or French, others are
English, while several of them, such as ' Dundee,' * New London,' ' Martyrs,1 and * St.
David's/ are still to be heard in our Churches, and these fine old simple airs will always
be admired for their " grave sweet melody."
LXXXVII.
LETTERS OF MR. ROBERT BLAIR, MINISTEU OF ST. ANDREWS.
[The first four Letters, addressed to Douglas, are printed from the Originals, in
Wodr. MSS. Fol. Vol. xxv. Nos. 99, 100, 112, 113; and that to Dickson, from
Baillie's MS. The last is that of which Baillie makes special mention, supra, p. 376.]
No. 1.
REVEREND & BELOVED BROTHER,
I HAVE conferred with fome of our Brethren from the Weft, of whom ye did wryt to
me, and albeat they be very unfatifHed with publick proceidings, yet I fand them more
defyrous of conjunction then I expefted. I wifs the rather a dyet be appointed for the
1651. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 557
delayed conference, and the mean tyme tendernes to be ufed toward them & other difient-
ing brethren. As for the A& of Clafies, ye know my mind, that though I was not
fatiffied with fundrie things in it, yet I think it very unexpedient it be cancelled in
anie pairt at this tyme. Ye know well how all the anfwers given to ther Quaeries have
bein abufed, to the farder renting both of Kirk & Eftate, wherof they would be grave-
lie remembred and admoneifhed at this tyme. Yea, farder, I have often heard, and
from a good hand this daye, that they whom the Ad moft concernis, ar moft filent about
it, and they that defyres it leaft, & yet will yeald to it for the ftrenthening of ther
fa&ion, mak moft din about it, and yet will be readie to feoff at a yealding anfwer, and
traduce you therefter. As alfo, it is better to keep this A£t over the heads of them
that now are admitted to imployment, to mak them bettir bairnes when favours ar
granted to them by degries. Confider alfo how, in yealding, we pafs from our late
anfwer to the firft Quaerie, wherin we defyred that power fould not be put in ther hand :
to recall that fo quicklie, I think it both fin and fhame, till they deferve it bettir. And
yet farder, wer not this the waye to unite us with our Brethren the lefs hopefull and
farder out of fight, when needleflie we goe farder from them. And albeat, evin this
confideration is not to be flighted, as I know yow will not, yet that which we ought
mainlie to look to is the Lord's intereft ; the AGt being made to keap judicatories and
places of truft clear, (the rigour, ye know, and felfynes vented therin, I nevir lyked ;)
it would be well advyfed what to putt in the roome therof. They that have been ill
affe&ed doe too much lift up ther creft every wher, which we have* nead to look to in
tyme, if it be not alreadie almoft out of tyme. My opinion and earneft requeaft is, that
this matter be left intear to the Gen[eral] Afs[embly] for fo ye and others that lye
under the burdein of bufines will be heft exonered. Grace be wi:h you.
Your loving Brother,
M. ROBERT BLAIR.
For his Reverend and beloved Brother, Mr. Robert Douglas,
Minifter of the Gofpell.
No. 2.
S*- Are. [St. Andrews,] 16th March 1651.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
I STILL continow craffie [infirm], and am not like to recover health or ftrength. I like
. not the prefent repealing of the Ad of Clafles ; it was ill made, and now it were as ill re-
fcinded, for thereby would be ftrengthened mightily the oppofition that is made to Pub-
lick Refolutions. We have rather need to fee how to curb the too great inclination there
away. I hear, that if Mr. James Guthrie and his colleague be fairly defyred by the
Commiffion, and a place affigned to him for the interim, that he may be induced to
hearken to that defyre. I earneftlie wifh that courfe be followed, becaufe fo firft the
558 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1651.
expe&ed advantage of our wicked invaders therein will be difappointed, as alfo the ex-
pe&ation of wicked men among ourfelves will be fruftrated, as alfo the jealoufy of fome
more forward than wife will be abated, and the moderate fort of honeft profeflbrs will
be moft fatitfied. But I have no will Mr. William Livingftoun's bufinefe be flighted ; I
complained to the King when he wes here, and wiihed him to {how his diflike of all
fuch flatterie. I defyre ye would think of a publick humiliation, and private in fami
lies, contriving the Caufes fo as may be leaft offenfive to any, and yet comprehenfive
enough. The Lord himfelf fleer the helm in this tempeft, and direct yow by his Spirit
in all things, which {hall be the prayer of
Your loving Brother,
M. ROBERT BLAIR.
.
For his Reverend and Beloved Brother Mr. ROBERT DOWGLAS,
Minifter of the Gofpell of Chrift, Thefe.
No. 3.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
IN this troublefome tyme ye ar putt to great travell, and hath but fmall incuradge-
ments, when all things ar fo far out of frame. The fetling of difcipline in the airmie is a
thing very neceffarie, and Oh that the Lord may be pleafed to blefs his owne ordinance.
Our unfatiffied Brethren, I fear, will ftill be unfatiffied for anie thing can be done that
waye, but I hope the Lord will be pleafed, in Chryft, with endeavoures of that kynd.
The firft daye I came out to the Preibiterie, which was Wedinfday laft, I was furpryfed
with the reading of ane Exhortation and Warning, indireftlie applying the characters of
Malignants to diflenters, and requyring Preftnteries to cenfure them. I had heard fuch
a thing muttered, but did not beleive it, albeat letters from Glafgow compleaned of it.
In my judgement it is unfeafonable and not healing, nor fitt to be made ufe of. It is
lyke to make the rent wyder, and doe no good, but to crye Bellum. The Spirit of coun-
fell and couradge reft upon yow.
Your loving Brother,
27th Apr. 1651. M. ROBERT BLAIR.
For his Reverend and Beloved Brother, Mr. ROBERT DOWGLAS,
Minifter of the Gofpell of Chryft.
No. 4.
REVEREND AND BELOVED BROTHER,
THOUGH the enimie be within few mylles, yet my infirmitie puts me from thoughts
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of going anie wher. We ar under a terrible ftorme of Divein difpleafure. The folie
of the Protefters, I think it very prefumptuous ; yet I think it not wifdome to goe to
the height of deferved cenfures, confidering the extremitie of the tyme, and former de-
ferving of the perfones. Forget not Mr. Ja. Durrham : it was againft my opinion he
was loufed from his charge. Mr. Baylie told me they had a mynd to call him to it
again. Though they fould be Hack in it, hald hand to it I pray yow, it will help fome-
what to mitigat the alienated mynds of good people. Mr. Ja. Fergufon is a wyfs and
grave man : I wifs he wer joyned in attendance upon the King. This fame fcribling
ftreffes my bodie. Counfell from heavin fhyne in upon your heart.
Your loving Brother,
[Between the 20th and 31ft July 1651.] M. ROBERT BLAIR.
For his Reverend and beloved Brother, Mr. ROBERT DOWGLAS,
Moderator of the G. Aflemblie at Dundie.
No. 5.
REVEREND & DEAR BROTHER,
WE fcaircelie gott a word one of another, when we were beaten afunder. I ever
feared, our Brethren would ufurpe, and would raither put others to fufiering than to
fuffer themfelves. They invited me to come to their meeting at Edinburgh, by ane letter
dated from Glafgow ; but befide the inabilitie of my bodie, I had fundrie reafibns why
I went not to them. I wrot to fome of their number, that they fhould content them
felves with conference, and not ufurpe power to which they had no calling from God
or man. Notwithftanding they have begune their ufurping wayes, and fitts, as haveing
Commiffion from the Aflembly 1 650, whilk is expyred. And though they fitt peaceablie,
they [there] are parties fent out to apprehend minifters in this fhire, fo that our fynodi-
call meeting was hindered. The prefbyteries here are mending the matter, as they beft
may ; and this day our Prefbyterie hes emitted the inclofed Aft, and tranfmitted it to
their neighbours, haveing alfo appointed ane Faft, the Lord's day come eight dayes, for
the finnes and fufferings of the land. God help us, we are compafled with inumerable
evills. Lord help our captive Brethren, whofe burthen is made heavier then [throw ?]
the proceidings of our ufurping Brethren. Grace be with you and your tofled familie.
Your, &c.
20th Oftober 1651. M. R. BLAIB.
For Mr. DAVID DICKSON.
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LXXXVIII.
MR. JAMES DURHAME, [TO MR. ROBERT DOUGLAS.]
[Orig.— Wodr. MS. Fol. Vol. XXV, No. 121.— The address of the letter is not pre
served, but it was evidently written to Douglas.]
RIGHT REVEREND,
I WAS once in doubt whither to have (laid till the Affembly or not ; but being re
covered in my health, and not knowing quho may be with the King, I have refolved,
upon Mr. Blair's adwice, to goe immediatly to that charge, untill the Aflembly dif-
pofe of me and it, as {hall be thought beft. I doubt not quhen men are to be named,
but yee will be carfull to fee them fuch as that tafke requirs, which I ingenoufly
confefle does not only requir mor zeall faithfullnes and abilities then I have,
but mor then I could have thought of before experience of the fnares and difcouradge-
ments which accompanie it. I can fay litle of the publike, being allmoft affraid of
everie event I can think of; yet, if God wold blefle fom overturs 1 heard from Mr.
Blaire, of waveing all bypaft debats at this tyme, by entreing on a new ground, I thinke
it the only way of healing ; quheras, if things fhall conclud by hotenes, after debat, it
doth not cure y* evill, but will readily bring on afts ard cenfurs on men, quhich will be of
greater fcandall to the Church, in my judgment, then the thing debated, and may pro.
bably.draw more favourers, out of defire to fuffer, with fom, and by others, quhairby
manie will be deimed to ad by ane other principle in that then the prefent contraverfie.
I was greived to heir of fom offence given at Stirling within thefe few days about
preaching, quherin, though I did never wreat to Mr. James Guthrie, and thinks he
might have done otherwife, yet I fee not hou he can juftly be charged in that, having
undertaken no promife, and flayed fo longe a tyme, mor than I thinke wold have beine
defired, if a tyme had beine fet. Befid, the longeft that was exfpe&ed was only till the
armie were up, or wer removed from thence. The days being few till the Aflembly, it
had beine lefle offence to have forborne. But I know yee fee in thefe things further then
I ; and how fair men may outrune refolutions, for perfueing ther own principles and
ends, hes beine obferved by yow long befor this. Though I grant ther be fundrie
things in fome men, quherin yee may be offended, yet I doe exfpeft yee wil rather pri-
vatly cheke them for it, then anie way publikly to feim alienated in your affe&ion
from them, quherof I my felf have no feare. The Lord dire& yow in this ftrait tyme,
quhen the eys of all are on yow, fom with feare, and others with exfpe&atione, quho, I
hope, fhall be prevented or difapointed, which is and fhall be the prayer of your
looving Brother,
July 14, 1651. M. J. DURHAME.
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561
LXXXIX.
PROTESTATION AGAINST THE PROVINCIAL SYNOD AT
GLASGOW, STH OCTOBER 1651.
[From Baillie's MS. Letters, &c. Vol. III. fol. 112, where the date 1652 is given, but
this is unquestionably an error.]
WHEREAS the paper called " Teftimony," etc., voiced in the Provinciall Synod of
Glafgow October 8th, doth very injurioufly refledt upon the late Generall Aflembly,
and was caryed on mainlie by men cenfured by that Aflembly, and others preingadged
in a Proteftation againft it cenfureable by the Afts of our Kirk : For thefe and other
Reafons to be given in, in time and place convenient, We under fubfcribers, in our oune
names and in the name of foe many as fliall adheare, doe Diflent and Proteft againft
that paper, and all other proceedings of that Synod contrarie to the late Generall Aflem
bly, appealling therefra to the next lawfull Generall Aflembly ; and defireing this our
Proteftation and appeale to be infert in the Synod books.
J. BONAR.
M. H. BLAIR.
Mr. JOHNE BURNE.
M. R. WALLACE.
M. ALLAN FERGUSONE.,
M. J. STEWART.
WILLIAM BLAIR.
[A blank in the MS.]
Mr. ROBERT AIRD.
D. MCALPINE.
M. R. SPRUILE.
Mr. HUGH ECCLES.
Mr. JA. INGLIS.
WM. RODGER.
M. R. MAXWELL.
Mr. R. BAILLIE.
Mr. ZACH. BOYD.
Mr. R. INGLIS.
Mr. Jo. BELL.
Mr. Jo- VETCH E.
Mr. WM- RUSSELL.
Mr. WM. CROOKES
Mr. WM. CASTELLAW.
Mr. JA. TAILLOUR.
Mr. Jo. HUME.
Mr. THO. KIRKALDIE.
Mr. WM. MORTONE.
Mr. GEO. YOUNG.
Mr. GAB. CUNYNGHAMB.
Mr. ARD. DENNESTONE.
Mr. R. WATSON E elder.
Mr. Jo. STERLING.
Mr. J. ADAMSONE.
Mr. Ro. WATSONE
younger.
JA. BUCHANANE.
Mr. MATH. RAMSAY.
Mr. JA. FERGUSONE.
M. Jo. COCHRANE.
Mr. PAT. COLVILL.
REASONS OF DISSENT.
1 . First. That we were content to goe alongft with them, for Union's fake, in all
things demanded, fo that ane publid vote of the Synod fhould not pafs difallowing the
Publift Refolutions ; but thitwas refufed, as appears be their Inftruftions.
2. They divided the Overture, and to make the firft part more taking, they changed
the word in the Overture * Difiatiffied,' into * Not being cleare to read prefentlie:
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8. The Synod haveing voted only ' That they were not clear to read prefentlie,' they
voiced the whole Overture in a fecond vote ; they keept the word ' Diflatiffied,1 which, for
obtaining voice in the other, they had taken away.
4. They not only voted Diflatiffa&ion with Publift papers, bot did imply, that while
| untill] they were fatiffied, they would no wayes joyne for oppofeing the enemie ; as
appears be compareing the tirft and third Inftru£Hon.
5. They did admitt Ruleing Elders to voice, who had no commiflion to inftruft their
power to the feffion, and had no feat in the Prefbyterie fince the laft Synod ; as the Pref-
byterie books did declare.
6. That while in their Inftru&ions they did challenge the Commiifion in many things
of negleft of duty, and it being offered be the Brethren to fhow, that the Commiflion
had not been deficient in thefe things, be their fupplication prefented to the Parliament,
yet it was refufed to fuffer thefe papers to be read, which could have cleared the
Commiffion.
7. That while the Countrey was in great danger of the Sectarians, as was fhown be
diverfe Brethren of the Synod, that fome did keep meetings with them, and fome gone
in to them of their number, yet all, for the Teftimonie againft the Sectarians, was de
layed for fy ve or fex weeks after the Synod ; albeit it was proponed in the Synod and
Committee be them, yet nothing was done againft them in the Committee, and nothing
fpoken againft them till the Synod was to ryfe, and nothing at all was reported againft
the Se&arians be the Committee.
8. And while diverfe Inftru&ions were given, wherein every member of the Synod
could not fay he had a fcruple, yet they would have the fcruples fent as from the whole
Synod, although there was not one member of the Synod would owne them all ; but
when it was required that the Caufes of the Faft fhould be read, the moft of them being
agreed upon be them all, yet the like was refufed, though the prefent condition of the
Kingdome did neceflarly require the fame.
9. Though the prefent condition of the Kingdome did ueceffarlie require the Warn
ings to be read, and the Caufes of the Faft, as faid is, yet they did delay all till probably
their reading will be ufelefs.
XC.
ADVICES AND ANSWERS FROM DOUGLAS AND OTHERS IN THE
TOWER OF LONDON, TO BAILLIKS QUESTIONS, 29rH JUNE 1652.
[From the same, fol. 116. — See supra pages 188 and 189 respecting this paper. The
following extract from the Presbytery Records of St. Andrews, furnishes the names
of the Ministers who were surprised at Alyth, and carried prisoners to London.
1652. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 563
Septr. 1, 1651. — w The Prefbyterie mett occafionallie for advyfeing q* is incumbent
to be done by ym in relation to certaine Brethren, latelie taken prifoners at Elio*, as Mr.
Robert Dowglas, Mr. James Hamilton, Mr. Mungo Law, Mr. Johne Smith, Mr. James
Sharp, Mr. George Pattullo, Mr. Johne Ratray, Minifters, and Mr. Andro Ker, Clerk
to the Generall Affemblie; did appoint a letter to be writen to Lieutenant-Generall
Moncke for yr reliefe, and a letter to the Brethren for comforting and encouraging ym
under yr fuffering ; and Mr. Alexr. Wedderburne appointed to goe with both.11]
IT is hoped that care has been taken for the elections in Prefbyteries of qualified and
well-affe£ted perfones. The next labour is for the conftitution of the enfuing Affembly.
To which effeft it will be neceffare that fome few meet together on the Mononday
or Tuefday before the meeting of the Affembly, to prepare, order, and confult on all
things neceffarie, and to informe themfelves of the refults of the meetings of the Declyn-
ing pairtie, and to arme themfelves accordingly.
If the Commiffion of Affembly have not already taken courfe for preaching and
opening the Aflembly, the time being fo Ihort, it will be neceflarie that the prefent
Moderator of the Commiffion fpeak to Mr. Robert Blair, and failzieing him, to write
to Mr. David Dickfone to fhow them it's a duetie lying upon one of them as laft Mo
derator to open the Affembly ; and that both of them prepare to preach, the one before,
the other after noone, according to the cuftome, in refpeft of the abfence of the Modera
tor of the late Affembly 1651, and the incapacitie of the Moderator 1650 to moderate
in this now enfueing Affembly by his Declining [the Aflembly of] 1651, and confe-
quently this which is conveened by the authoritie of that : In cafe of Mr. Blair's infir-
mitie or abfence, one of the minifters of the towne where the Affembly meets, may be
written unto to preach with Mr. David Dickfone.
If Mr. Andrew Cant, Moderator of the Aflembly 1650 be there, and take the chaire,
offering to open the Aflembly as laft Moderator ; or if it be moved, that he may doe
it, (both which may be done upon defigne), it is not our opinion that he can be ad
mitted as a member, much leffe to moderate untill he have paffed from and renunced
under his hand- writing the Declinator, which neither he can give, nor the Affembly
receive, before they be conftitute ; and fo ane other muft moderate and open the
Aflembly : much lefs is it queftioned that he fhould be debarred, if he acknowledge
this Affembly under any Proteftation or declaration, That the acknowledging of
this is not to be underftood as any acknowledgement of the preceeding Affembly, or
fuch like.
That the Aflembly may be conftitute be vertew of the Indi&ion of the preceeding,
Let the Aft of Indi&ion be firft read before receaveing in of any Commiflions ; and
thereafter, the A6t for the order of calling the roll ; and fpeciall care would be had that
no way be given to any Overture, (if fuch fhall be propounded upon the fpecious pre-
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tence of peace and union,) for afferting the authority of this Affembly, either directly or
indire&ly difowneing the preceeding.
FOR THE REASONS FOLLOWING : —
1. ANY Declaration bearing that the acknowledgement of this Affembly is not to
import any acknowledgement of the former, is fo clear, that it needs not to be fpoken
to. But fmooth Overtures paffing over the queftion, or not takeing notice for the time
of the Ad of Indiftion ; or, That the Affembly is to be held legall or lawfull without
relation to the Indiftion, or any fuch, are all upon the matter reall pafllng from the
Aflembly and burying of it for ever : For what Aflembly could owne it, when this in-
di&ed by it doeth not owne it, efpecially feeing tyme may and would certainly, in that
cafe, make the difference wyder and the Declyners pairtie ftronger. What Synod, or
Prefbytries, or Minifter, would or could owne that Affembly or their A&s, if the au-
thoritie of it were fo flighted by this Generall Aflembly, no obedience to their Adb
could be urged, nor difobedience cenfured.
2. It were at the leaft to keep the authoritie of the preceding Affembly under quef
tion, and fo the Declyners fhall have juft reafon to think that yet sub judice lis est ;
which were a weakening of the authoritie of the Aflembly, and a ftregthening of their
ufurpatione.
3. If this Aflembly either put or leave the authoritie of that under queftion, the De
clyners fhould have juft reafon to difacknowledge their cenfures, and notwithstanding
thereof, to exerce their miniftrie untill it be taken from them by ane unqueflioned
authoritie : And this were in the Affembly a fearfull proftituteing of the Ordinance of
the Miniftrie and Church cenfures to contempt, and to leave the precious Ordinances of
Chrift to be efteemed valide or invalide, lawfull or unlawful!, according to the pleafure
and humor of men, and their vertue and value to be changeable with times and perfons.
4. It's a falvo to all fuch as doe, or can be moved to difclaime the late Aflembly, that
a ftrong pairtie.cf fuch may be admitted, under pretence of peace and union, but in
deed to trouble the publift peace and order of the Kirk; who, being admitted, will plead
(and poffiblie can with fome appearance of reafon, from the fame argument of peace and
union,) that other A&s, alfewell as the Aft of Indi&ion, thefe efpecially of cenfures
may for a time not be owned ; and fo as they have a falvo to difowne the authoritie,
the Declyners fhall obtaine a libertie to exerce minifleriall duties with a non obstante
of the A£b of that Aflemblie.
5. As fuch a Declaration will work in favour of the decliners of, fo in prejudice of the
adhearers unto the authoritie of that Aflembly, as putting or leaving the authoritie of it
in queftion ; yea it feems to be a plaine admitting of a declaration or proteftatioii againft
it. To doe a deed commanded under proteftation or declaration, that it is not by vertue
of, or in obedience to the command, is to proteft or declare againft the commander and
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his authoritie ; and the thing commanded being performed, it can import nothing elfe :
and if the authoritie commanding accepts of performances with fuch declarations and
proteftations, he accepts and admitts of proteftations and declarations againft himfelffe
and his owne authoritie : Soe, if the Affembly either themfelves declare, or admitt
others to declare, That they doe not hold their meeting to be in relation or by warrand
of the preceeding Affemblie, they thereby fignifie no leffe than a denyall or difowning of
the authoritie of that Affemblie.
6. If the authoritie of the late Affembly be not acknowledged, the authoritie of this
muft be queftioned, the meeting of this haveing no other warrand but from that, and
foe it muft be a meeting without warrand, and illegall ; and fuch a meeting cannot give
authoritie to it felfe.
7. No Commiflioners can affirme or declare that their meeting is not in relation to the
Indittion of the former Affembly, without manifeft and unfaithfull contradicting of their
Commiffions, which doe expreflie relate to that Induction, and bears that as the narra
tive and caufe. And fo fuch declarations being of neceffitie to be regiftred, and the
Commiffions alfo to be keept in retentis, their unfaithfullnefs shall inevitably be keept
in record to all pofteritie.
If any Commiffions from Prefbyteries bear fuch Declarations and Proteftations (which
is to be carefully obferved,) or any Commiffioners make fuch verbally, in our opinion
the Commiffions may be rejected as limited, and the Commiffioners removed, as limit
ing themfelves ; at the leaft they ought to be laid afide untill the remanent Commiffions
be given in, and the Affembly be conftitute of uncontroverted members.
None depofed or fufpended can in any tearmes be admitted to this Affembly, nor can
thefe who fubfcryved the Declinator given in at St. Andrewes, except they paffe from
and renunce the Declinator by a declaration under their hands : as for the adhearers unto
it fince the Affembly 1651, this Affembly cannot take notice of them untill their adhere-
ing to it be judicially delated and made good : and if it be informed and inftru&ed,
they are then to be removed alfewell as declyners.
After the Commiffions are given in, the nixt is to choife the Moderator ; for order
ing whereof, the A£t made thereanent is to be read. And we pray the Lord to direft
the Affembly upon one of abilities for the imployment, unqueftionable integritie for the
caufe of God, and of knowledge and foundnefs in the prefent debates and differences.
For want of the Regifters, the Affembly muft be content at this time with the print
ed Afts, and extra&s of fuch A&s, as ufually are called for. And the Clerk, in refpeft
of his reftraint, will appoint one to attend the Affembly with fuch neceffarie papers as
he can at prefent think of. But it will be neceffarie, after the conftitution, that the
Affembly formallie warrand any they pleafe to fupply the Clerk's place in this Affem
bly, and fubfcribe the A&s of it in his abfence.
In our humble opinion it will be fitting, That the Affembly ufe all poffible hafte to a
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conclufion, ingadgeing themfelffs in alfc little buflinefs either of publift or private con
cernment as can be. But tin-It- feem neceflarie :—
1 . That a full and plaine Declaration be emitted againft all and every encroachment
upon the liberties, priviledges, and authoritie of the Kirk, the Judicatories, Miniftrie,
and other ordinances of Chrift, and againft Separation ; with a reccommendation to
Prefbytries and Synods to take effectuall courfe.for oppofeing thefe evills, efpeciallie
where any Separatifts already appear.
2. The Commiflion for publict affaires would be renewed; 1. Of a recommendation,
for further cenfure of any depofed or fufpended minifters by the late Aflembly at Dun
dee, or by any others whatfoever judicatorie of this Kirk, or commiffions iflueing from
them that have exerced any part of the minifteriall function fince the fentences given
againft them. 2. Of a particular power to confider the feveral conditions of all cenfur-
ed minifters, according to their abilities for the miniftrie, repentance for their offences,
and good behaviour fince their cenfures, to put them in a capacitie of readmiffion to the
miniftrie, if the Lord fhall offer them a call.
3. There would be a generall renovation and continuation of all the references and
commiffions appointed by the preceeding Aflembly.
4. It feemes neceflarie alfo that there be a recommendation to Prefbytries and Synods
to take notice of minifters that have imployed any depofed or fufpended to preach, or
exerce any pairt of the minifteriall calling.
Weconceave, in our humble opinion, it better that the Aflembly indift the nixt to
fome day in the nixt year, than that this be continued and prorogated.
If the Aflembly fliall meet with any Declinator, they know what they ought to doe;
yea, if they meet with greater oppofition, we confidently hope that confcience of deutie,
and former prefidents, will animate them to fhew faithfullnefs, courage, and refolution
againft it ; and fhall conftantly pray for the fulfilling of that promife, Ifaiah 4, " That
the Lord may create upon every dwelling-place of Mount Zion and her aflemblies a
cloud and fmoke by day, and the fhineing of flaming fire by night, and upon all the
glory a defence,"11 etc.
Thefe are our thoughts, as we can conceave, of your bufinefs, from fenfe of duty,
without the leaft prefumption of prefcribeing or limiteing any man's better judgment.
XCI.
JOHNSTONE OF WAHRISTON TO MR. JAMES GUTHRIE,
29rH MARCH 1654.
[From the Original in the Editor's possession. The initials « M. S. R.,1 « M. R. D.,'
« L. B.; * S. J. Ch.,' « M. J. G.,1 • M. P. G.,1 stand respectively for Mr. Samuel
1654. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 567
Rutherford, Mr. Robert Douglas, Lord Broghill, Sir John Cheesley, Mr. James
Guthrie, and Mr. Patrick Gillespie.]
LOVING BROTHER,
BLISSED be the Lord that preferred you in your homgoing. I fhal foone goe throu
the booke, and prefle diligence on vthers who ar too floue. For neues, Lieut. Gen.
Monk, wee heare, is nou, or wil be this week, on his journey to command in Scotland,
and withal is reported to haive fayd, that he could live with any but the Remonftrators
and Protefters in Scotland ; and that he hes commiflion to burne and deftroye wherfo-
ever the Highlanders are refetted. Ther is fom report as if the Mfarques] of Neucaftle,
Inchquin & Langdayle, wer com to the North. Their is a declaration of the Caufes of
a Faft in Ingland, in which their are fom good, fom doubtful, and fom bad things.
M. S. R. hes feen the ordnance to the thirty minifters and elders about planting Kirks,
and fayes, it is lyk the old High Commiflion. I haive not yet feen it, but on[e] of the
diurnals fayes, the Councel of State is about the fettling a gouver* of the Church as
before of the Staite. M. R. D. preached laft Saboth bitterly againft vs as maikuig
humiliations and communions in the countrey only for a nayme to ourfelves,and that people
might idolize vs, &c. And then in privat he fpake to my L. B. againft the King and
nobles and our native reulers as worfe than the Inglifh, and that he durft not in fecret
praye for their reftitution. Midleton, I heare, hes an abfolut commiflion, not only in
military and civil affaires, but alfo in ecclefiaftical, with exprefle power to depofe and
putt out minifters. I think it an obfervable circumftance of tyme by Providence tryft-
ing the 20th of Merch to be the day of the Inglilhes apoynting their Faft, and of our
begining our notes of our Teftimonye, and the 24th of Merch to be the daye of their
Faft, and of our finifliing our Teftimonye letter, and meeting ; which I wifh they would
taik for an good aunfwear of their Faft. I heare their ordinance about trying of
minifters exprefly declares their tryal and approbation to be no facred or foleme fetting
a man apart to the minifterye, but the ground and warrant of the magiftrats giving to
fuch the ftipend, and fo to fhuffle and fhutt out ordination, &c. It pleafed the Lord to
affift M. S. R. on Sunday al day to lecture on the 50th Ifay, and preach on the 4, 5,
6, v. Their was fuch a throng in the Grayfreers in the foreanoon, and in the Tron
Kirk in the afternoon, and fuch a thinnes in the reft of the kirks as we haive not readily
feen the lyke fince the 1638. He preached pairt of our Teftimonye. M. R. D. fayd
wee had fent vp three of our number, and fom of vs maid fom oppofition to it only
becaus wee was not called vp ourfelves. Yee would not forgett to fend in the papers
to S. J. Ch. and alfo yr draught of the Teftimonye to the fynods. We haive fent an
exprefle to Mr. Jh. Levifton with the letter and tuo fubfcryved Teftimonyes. I heard
that Col. Lilburne fayd to on[ej, that he was the occafion of fending for thes three minif
ters, by a letter of his to the General, as a waye to fatiffye the godly in Scotland ; and
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if he had knouen befor what he hard nou, he fhould halve defyred lettres to haive been
written alfo to M. S. 11. and M. J. G. Som hes maid a report goe throu the countrey
as if wee had quyetly agreed with the Inglifhes, and that wee wer rayfing a Whigimyre
road vnder Argyle ; who, in the raeantyme, I heare, hes written baifely flattering and
ingaging lettres to the Prote&or. Alexr. Jaffray is lying feake, and fo is Mr. Jhon
Meinzeis bedfaft and not aible to goe vp. I haive written you al the neues 1 know. I
fend to you heirwith a copye of the firft paper which was written, to mark the cheifeft
paflages of fcripture, to be the matter of meditation and an advifandum befor any incor
poration or ingagement, that you may fend it to Mr. Jam. Simpfon to pervfe ; at the
leaft the laft pairt of it from the midle of the 8th fheet to the end, which is anent argu
ments from the Covenants and Ingagements, wherwith he may compare the neu gouver*
in its four articles, and fett doun fhortly the direft antithefes between the tuo. Lykas
I fend you the firft fix Aunfuers that war written in 1652 to the objection about
Daniel ch. vlt., about our former principles, that you may fend it to him, becaus the
vther paper which he hes relates theirto ; and defyre him to fend me back both thes
papers, and the former that he got with him, and his fhort draught and his long
draught both of his reafons againft talking places. 1 cannot aunfuer that any of thir
copyes ar right; for I haive borroued them from Mr. R. Trayle, and hes promifed to
re-delyver them. Anent vther things I wil faye no mor at this occafion, but that I
haive found the Lord's temple-try ftes and condefcentions as fenfible fince our pairting as
ever of befor ; bliffed, Miffed be his nayme. A fpeaking Chryft will proove a working
reigning Chryft in the fight of his freinds and foes. The grace of the Lord be with
you, and with your wyfe and children.
Your loving Brother,
M. P. G. is not yet come heir. A. JHONSTON.
29th Merch 1654.
To my loving Brother Mr. JAMES GUTHRIE, Minifter
of God's Word at Stirling.
I
XCI1.
INSTRUCTIONS TO MR. JAMES SHARP, FOR LONDON, 23c AUGUST 1656.
[From Baillie's MS. Letters, &c., Vol. III. fol. 236: See pages 324 and 330 of this
volume, where notice is taken of Sharp having been sent to London, to Cromwell,
on the part of the 1'ublic Resolutioners.]
1. Yow would labour to give a right impreffion of the difpofition of the Minifters in
this nation who ftand for the Publift judicatories of the Kirk, to live peaceably and in-
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offenfively under the prefent government, by fhewing what teftification they have given
heirof : J . By their quiet behaviour hithertill fmce they were brought under it ; 2. By
what was declared by fome of them, underftanding well the mind of the reft, to my
Lord Prasfident in February laft ; and 3. By what many others of them, from the feve-
rall Preibytries, ar at this prefent tyme voluntarlie declaiming in petitions to the Coun-
cell of Scotland.
2. To clear and make manifeft the groundlefs arrogancy of our Brethren, in afluming to
themfelves the name of the Godly Partie of the miniftrie ; together with the injuftice and
falfliood of their afperfing of the generalise of the reft of the miniftrie as inefficient, or fcan-
dalous,or both. Andforthispurpofe to fhew: — 1. That thegreateft partof the minifters who
before our late differences were juftly efteemed and looked upon as the moft eminent, honeft,
and godly minifters in this Kirk, and were moft inftrumentall in the work of God, doe ad
here unto thePublick Judicatures unto this day. 2. That(which is undenyable and notour,).
a great part, if not the farr greateft part, of our DifTenting Brethren, have been admitted
to the miniftrie within thefe very few years, moft part of thefe alfo being hot very young
men ; and very few of all of them that were minifters when the late work of Reforma
tion did begin. 3. That although our Brethren did blaze abroad in publift, and fuggeft
to thefe in power fuch afperiions againft the generalitie of the miniftrie ; yet, when in
their refpeftive Prefbytries, at the viiitation of Kirks, and in their refpe&ive Synods, at
the tryall of the feverall Prefbytries, they are required, upon their confciences, to declare
their knowledge and judgement concerning the life and abilities of every one of their
Brethren, little or nothing hath been reprefented by them of any challenge concerning
the converfation or qualification of any particular minifter in their judicatures ; yea,
although upon occafion of fuch generall afperfions fpread and publifhed by them, they
have often been in judicatures and publick meetings earneftly attefted to condefcend
upon particular perfons and challenges, and folemne promifes have been made to them
that judicatures fhould forthwith goe faithfullie and impartiallie about the tryell and
cenfure thereof, yet never would they be induced to doe this. 4. That within thefe
three years, as many fcandalous, unable, and unprofitable men, in all the corners of the <
land, have been removed from the miniftrie ; fo, through the Lord's goodnefs, many
able and gracious young men have been, in our bounds, placed into their roomes, and
we can warrantably affirm it, that within thefe laft three or four yeares, there have been
more able and pious men admitted to the miniftrie in the feverall parts of the land, than
was at any tyme in fo fhort a fpace, or much more, fmce our late Reformation. 5. We
can alfo warrantablie affirm, that as never more frequent nor more accurat vifitations
of particular Kirks, for infpeftion and tryall of the converfation, doftrine, diligence, and
faithfulnefs of minifters in their charges, have been than of late within thefe three or
four yeares laft bypaft ; fo that we have thereby found not only good evidence of the
godly converfation, and of the found and edifying doftrine of minifters generallie ; but
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alfo more painfulnefs in their labours, and more fuccefs thereupon, throw the Lord's
bleffing, than hath been before. 6. Although we will not deny, but it is very probable
that in fundrie parts there may be found fome men in the miniftrie unfuitable in con-
verfation to their holy calling and infufficient, (and we wifh from our hearts that our
Brethren who afperfe us, had not thefe late years admitted fo many infufficient men, as
is notour they have done,) yet we may truelie fay it, that our Brethren's wayes and
aftings this tyme bypaft, by which they have taught men to vilifie the authoritie of
Judicatures, and to contemne the exercife of Difcipline, hath been a great obftructiun
and hinderance to tryall, finding out, and cenfuring of fuch. And we give affurance
that the Judicatures of the Kirk, they not being hindered to go about the work, nor
being expofed to have their authoritie in the exercife of ecclefiaftick Difcipline con
temned, (hall ufe all diligence, faithfulnefs, and impartiality to try and cenfure fuch
where they can be found within their refpeftive bounds ; as fome Synods of late,
alfoone as they had libertie to conveene, have given proofe of their fidelitie and zeale in
this work, by removeing from the miniftrie fome who were of their own judgement as
to the matters of Publift differences. 7. In a word, we can fay in truth, the Lord
bearing us witnefs, that this afperfion of infufficiencie, fcandaloufnefs, and corruption
caft by our Brethren upon the generalitie of the miniftrie of our judgement throughout
the land, is moft uncharitable, unjuft, and falfe.
In relation to the prefervation of true Religion and Government of the Church efta-
blifhed among us, it is to be defired:—
1. That effe&uall courfe be taken for the fuppreffing of Poperie, fo much increafed and
abounding of late in this land, which, if it be not tymouflie obviat, cannot but prove
moft dangerous to Religion, and to the peace and fafetie of the State.
2. That the ecclefiaftick government be permitted and allowed to runn in its right
channel!, and to goe on in its exercife, as it is eftablifhed in this nation, according to
the word of God, by Adls of Generall Aflemblies, and A£b of Parliament.
3. Yet if on fuggeftion from this, or from themfelves above, any motion be made
towards the calling of a Generall AfTemblie, yow would moft feriouflie reprefent the
inexpediencie thereof for the time, and indifpofednefs of this Kirk for it in regard of
the prefent differences and diftempers ; which would readily be encreafed and heightened
to the great prejudice of religion if there were a meeting in a Generall Aflemblie, be
fore there be time to compofe and fettle matters and men's fpirits in inferior judicatories.
4. That there be no intrufion allowed of perfons into the miniftrie in congregations,
without the lawfull and orderlie confent and election of the congregations, or without
orderlie tryall and ordination by prefbyteries ; but that the whole calling of perfons to
the office of the miniftrie be permitted and allowed to be afted and carried on according
to the eftablifhed order of this Church, and particularly that A£ of the Generall Af-
femblie 1649, intituled the Dire&ion for Ele&ion of Minifters.
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5. That the Ordinance concerning the fettleing of maintainance upon minifters in
Scotland, emitted in the year 1654, be made void and taken away, in regard it doth
overturne the eftablifhed order and government of this Kirk, efpeciallie as to the plan
tation and calling of minifters ; as hath been evidenced in the considerations upon the
faid Ordinance which were given by us to the Lord Generall.
6. That perfons produceing certificats from their refpeftive Prefbyteries, bearing
teftimonie of their calling and admiffion unto the miniftrie, in congregations within the
refpe£tive bounds of the prelbytries certifying conforme to the order abovementioned,
and of their blamelefs and godly converfation, and of their abilitie and fitnefs to preach the
gofpell, have, by the Civill power, allowed to them the ftipend and whole benefits belong
ing to the refpe&ive charges whereunto they are called and admitted. And that the ftipend
of no congregation be fettled upon any perfon intruded upon a people to be their minifter,
contrare to the aforefaid lawfull and eftablifhed order of calling and admitting minifters.
7. That the Ecclefiaftick difcipline be permitted to be exercifed by the Judicatures of
the Kirk according to the order therein eftablifhed ; and the Ecclefiaftick cenfures that
fhall be ena£ted and pronounced againft any members of this kirk, minifters, or others,
for fcandales and offences, be not impeded nor ftoped, nor any perfones fo cenfured dif-
obeying, contemning, or oppofeing the difcipline of this Kirk, be countenanced or in-
couraged in their difobedience, contempt, or oppofition.
And whereas fome may be buffie to fuggeft, and upon fuch fuggeftion it may haplie
be obje&ed that the Judicatures of the Kirk being fuch for the moft part as ftand for
the authoritie and conftitution of the two late Generall AfTemblies, doe exercife oppref-
fion over thefe that difTent from them ; and that were they permitted to exercife their
full power and authoritie, they would crufh the other part, by cafting out many godly
minifters, holding out manie godly expeftants, and cenfuring all others diflenting from
them. This may be made evidently appear to be nothing elfe but a forged, unjuft,
flander, by the A£t of the Generall Aflembly at Edinburgh, 1652, intituled, " an Aft
and Overture for peace and union of the Kirk," and by the Overtures made by us to our
diffenting Brethren in November laft ; efpeciallie as they are expreffedin our Reprefenta- "
tion given to them November [24th], and our carriage in our Judicatures all along the
tyme of our differences, wherein we have borne with much and conftant patience many
fad, bitter, and unjuft afperfions caft upon us by them, in preaching, write, and print ;
yet never to this day cenfured or challenged any of their judgement upon the account of
our differences, or for any of their injurious afperfions caft upon us, nor ever oppofed we the
entrie of any of their judgement into the miniftrie ; but was ever willing to admitt him
upon an orderlie call, if they would only have declared their refolutions to live peaceably
with us, and to abftaine from holding up debates and contentions about the matters of our
Publict differences, (which thing we were allwayes reallie willing to declare and per-
forme for our part,) leaveing to them the full freedome of their judgement in thefe matters.
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8. That no companie of Minifters or others be efteemed or acknowledged to be a pref-
bytrie or other kirk judicature, who have not been owned as fuch a Judicature ; and that
if any few minifters, or others who are not authorised in manner aforlaid, take upon them
the authoritie and jurifdi&ion of a kirk judicature, and doe exercife any a&s of govern
ment, in calling or depofing of minifters, or inflicting any other cenfures, that they be not
countenanced, nor any of their actings ouned as deeds of a I. m full Judicature.
9. Becaufe our adverfaries may be buflie to mifreprefent us as having been averfe
from Union, the matter of the Overtures of Union which we condefcended unto, would
be made known to thofe in power, and to the godly Prefbyterian Minifters there. As
alfo the points on which they ftuck and refuifed to unite with us, which were thefe two :
1. That we granted not unto them Committees of equall numbers of both judgments
for purgeing. 2. That we required fubordination and ftibjedion of inferiour judicatures
to their refpe<5tive fuperior judicatures, according to the nature and order of Prelbyteriall
Government in this Kirk, and the conftant uncontroverted practice thereof before the
time of our unhappie differences. The unreafonablenefs and inconfiftency with Prelby
teriall Government, and the eftablifhed order in this Church, of requiring the former and
refuifeing the latter, is fully and clearly evidenced in our laft two papers relateing to
the Conference.
10. If it fhall happen that any new motion be made for union with our diflenting
Brethren, it would be fhowen, that we cannot pofliblie condefcend any further then we
have done alreadie for obtaining Union with them in our above-mentioned Overtures in
November laft, as they are exprefied in our Reprefentation in the faid moneth of No
vember, unlefs we would condemne ourfelves, and renunce our judgment in the matters
of difference betwixt them and us, which we could not doe without wronging our own
confciences, quitting truth, provoking God, and rendering our Church and Religion hate-
full to all Civill powers, nations, and Churches about us. And if it be moved that an
Union be made between them and fome of us whom they are pleafed to favour with the
estimation of honeftie and godlinefs, laying by others, it would be declared that we
are moft willing that all fuch perfons in the miniftrie as can be challenged for fcandale
or infufficiencie be impartiallie tryed and cenfured in an orderly way by the Judicatures of
the Kirk, or committees of unqueftionable judicious and godly men, to be nominated by the
faid refpe&ive Judicatures ; but that we neither can in confcience, nor will ever hearken
to Inch a motion as that whereby a great part of the minifters of this Kirk, (whereof
many are pious and able men, whatever our Brethren think of them,) fhall be condemned
as infufficient,fcandalous, and corrupt, without hearing, without any try ell or procefle, and
not only a more woefull rent made in this Church, but alfo the very conftitution and
frame of this National! Church overturned and rafed, and all caft doune into a confufion.
Mr. DAVID DICKSON. Mr. ROBERT DOWGLASS. Mr. JAMES WOOD.
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XCIII.
PROPOSALS OF THE PROTESTERS TO THE LORD PROTECTOR.
[From the same, fol. 238.— At page 353, Baillie refers to these Proposals of the Pro
testers which they sought to obtain from Cromwell, by sending some of their num
ber to London ; but in this they were defeated by Sharp, who had been sent thither
as agent for the other party in the Church.]
1. THAT your Highnefs will pleafe to give warrand for a Commiffion to be iffued to fuch
perfons of abilitie and foundnefs who underftand the affairs of the Kirk, as your High
nefs fliall think fitt, who may have and exercife the power which was heretofore in the
Commiffion of the plantation of kirks in that Nation ; and that the faid Commiffioners
may be authorized and required to difpofe of the publick maintainance, according to the
rules and a£ts of uncontroverted Afiemblies of the Church, and lawes of that land before
the year 1651.
2. That a particular Vifitation may be, confifting of an equall number of both judg
ments, of approved godlinefs and zeale for the work of reformation ; whereof the one
half to be agreed upon by thefe who are for the Publick Refolutions, and the other half
by the E emonftrators, for planting and purgeing of minifters and elders, and for com
peting of prefent and future divifions in Prefbytries and Congregations within the bounds
of every Synod ; having power and authoritie for that effect from the refpeftive Synods
themfelves.
3. That there be alfo a general Committee of delegates from the feveral Synods, of an
equal number of both judgements, to be choifen and agreed as aforefaid, authorifed by
the Synods, without whofe previous advyce and confent the refpe&ive Synods may not
ranverfe any thing done by the forefaid Vifitations ; and fuch Vifitations and Commit
tees to cdntinue untill the prefent differences be healed, or the Lord fliall in providence
minifter fome better way for the fettleing of peace amongft them.
XCIV.
LETTER, LORD BROGHILL TO MR. ROBERT DOUGLAS.
[From the Orig. Wod. MSS. Fol. Vol. XXVI. No. 8.]
V
WORTHY SB.
I SEND this on purpofe to defyre you to favor me with your, Mr. Wood, and Mr.
Sharped company, fomewhat early to-morrow morninge, becaufe I heare of fom frends
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wil be with me all the afternoone, wherby othenvife I may be deprived of that time I
intend to fpend amongft yow. Pray favor me with fendinge to Sterlin for Mr. Symp-
fon, to be with me at Edinbrough, on Tuifday morninge, without fayle, before the
Coum-ill does fit, for fom reafons fhalbe communicated to you when you com out.
Sir,
Your very af* frend,
Pinky, Lord's day in the evening, and humble fervant,
10ofAug'[16]56. BROOHILL.
For my worthy frend Mr. Rob* Douglas, Minifter of the Gofpell at
Edinbrough : In his abfence, for Mr James Wood, or Mr. James
Sharpe, M inifters of the Gofpell, or either of them, at Edinbrough.
XCV.
ARTICLES EXHIBITED AGAINST MR. PATRICK GILLESPIE.
[From Bailie's MS. Letters, &c. Vol. iii. fol. 243. This appears to be the libel men
tioned by Baillie, at page 372 of this volume, and which he says was imputed to him,
but he denies his having seen it till produced by Gillespie at a meeting of the Faculty.]
ARTICLES WHEREFORE MR. PATRICK GILLESPIE OUGHT NOT TO BE PRINCIPAL OF THE
COLLEDGE OF GLASGOW, BOTH FOR INSUFFICIENCIE, NEGLECT OF DUETIE, AND
MALADMINISTRATION OF THE REVENUES OF THE SAID COLLEDGE : — AND FIRST OF
HIS INSUFFICIENCIE AND NEGLECT OF DUTIE.
1. First, THE Principall of the Colledge of Glafgow, according to its foundation, and
the ordinarie pra&ife ufed in that Houfe, is obliedged to be chief Profeffor of Theologie
therein, to have each week publick leflbns of Theologie and Philofophie, as thefe who
formerly were Principalls did carefully a& the fame to the great advantage of the Stu
dents of Theology and Philofophie, and credit of the Univerfitie, and that notwithftand-
ing that the burden of the manageing of the public affaires thereof, and the ordering of
what related to the building of the edifice lay upon them as now it doth upon Mr.
Patrick Gillefpie ; but fo it is, that the faid Mr. Patrick, under pretext all this time of
going about the Colledge affairs and buildings, hath neglefted that part of his charge,
and hath taught as good as none, for his whole dictates of Theology Leflbns, for the
fpace of five yeareg, will be comprehended in two fheet of paper : And therefore he is
not fufficient for that charge.
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2. Secondly, The Principal of the faid Colledge, according to its foundation and or
dinary cuftome of the Houfe, ought to prefeed to all publia aaesand difputes : To wit,
when the Theologues give out Thefes before they be licentiat to preach, or thofe who
by publick programmes were invited to difpute for a Regent's place, when any vaiked,
the Principall alwayes was Prefes in thefe difputes : But fo it is, that to this day Mr.
Patrick hath not at all prefeeded in any of thefe difputes, but left them ftill to be gone
about by ane other. And for the private difputes of the Theologues amongft themfelves,
which ufed to be weekly, he hath very feldome been prefent at thefe ; but ordinarily
leaves thefe to be ordained by the other Profeffors, notwithftanding that by agreement
betwixt him and them, he be oblidged to wait upon them courfe about : And therefore he
is no wayes fufficient for the faid charge.
3. Thirdly, The Principal, by his place, is an ordinary examinator of the Students
of Philofophy, both at thofe times when they are to be promoved and called in yearly,
and likewife at the folemne examinations that they undergoe when they paffe Mafters
of Arts ; which duetie, as a chief part of their charge, all the Principals in the Colledge
went about very carefully, and made fearch how the Students were taught by their
Mafters, and did profite : But fo it is, that Mr. Patrick, fince his taking upon him the
office of Principall in the faid Colledge, to this day hath not examined, at thefe folemne
times, the Students of Philofophy, neither hath at any other tyme tryed how they are
taught by their matters, and how they profite in their ftudies : And therefore, it being
palpably knowne that he is unfitt for going about any of thefe dueties to any purpofe,
he is altogether infufficient for the faid charge.
4. Fourthly, Albeit the teaching of the Oriental tongues, by the Vifitation of the Col
ledge, was put upon another Profeffor, and the Principall was eafed of that burthen, yet
it is moft neceffarie that he who is Principall, and fo by his place the Prime Profeffor
of Theologie, fhould have (kill in thefe languages, and ftiould clear and expound to Stu
dents the hard places of Scripture : But fo it is, that Mr. Patrick is fo farr from that,
that it is known how little infight he hath in the Latine ; and this he evidenced at his
firit fpeech in Latine, that he had at a public meeting of the Colledge, at the Laureation
of a Claffe of Philofophy, when he began his prayer as an imprecation, ufeing thefe
words. — " Auspiciis nostris Domine Deus adesse dedigneris ;" that is, — " Deinzie not
Lord to be prefent at this our meeting ;" And when in the clofe of that a&ion he was
defired, by one of that meeting, to pray and fend away the newlie Lawreat fchollers with
a bleffing, after a little paufe, when it was expe&ed that he would pray, he rofe up, and
without prayer difmifled them, faying " Ite? — " Goe away ;" Yea, it is his ordinarie cuf
tome, (which ufed not to be done by any Principall before,) to pray in Englifh when he
meets with the Theologues at their private difputes, or with the Students of Philofophy
in the Common-hall : And therefore, his deficiency and weaknefs being known, he is
altogether infufficient for the forfaid charge.
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ARTICLES OF MALADMINISTRATION OP THE RENTS AND REVENUES OF THE
FORSAID COLLEDGE.
1. First, HOWBEIT the faid Mr. Patrick Gillefpie hath a fair and large fallary each year
of the firft and readied of the rents of the faid College, yet he not being fatiffied thenvith,
hath taken of the revenues of that Houfe to his owne ufe the fummes following, at leaft
he hath obtained right thereunto by the Moderators of that Houfe : As firft, when he
was called up by his Highnefs the Lord Prote&or, fome three yeares agoe, he obtained
of his Highnefs a gift to that Colledge of the Superiorities of the Bifhoprick of Galloway,
together with two hundreth merks fterling money for maintenance of fome Burfars of
Theology ; and notwithftanding, his Highnefs did allow him fufh'cient maintainance for
his journey, and that according to his own account, given up by himfelf of his difburfe-
ments, in obtaining of the forfaid gifts to the faid Colledge, there was payed to him by
the Colledge ane hundreth pund fterling or thereby ; yet the faid Mr. Patrick took of
the Colledge rent, at his return, three thoufand merks Scots money as a reward for his
pains.
2. Secondly, At the laft time when Mr. Patrick went to London he was commiflionat
by the Remonftrating partie, with others, to negotiat thefe things which by them were
committed to him, and thofe who were joyned to him in that commiflion, and by that
partie large fummes were collected and given to him and others joyned with him, for
defraying their expenfes in that journey ; and further his Highnefs the Lord Protestor
did liberallie allow to the faid Mr. Patrick a larger foume of money, nor might have
been Vufficient for his maintenance during that fpace. The faid Mr. Patrick having a
particular Commiflion from the Colledge, (which he took from them after he was en
gaged to the Remonftrating partie to goe up for them,) to do what he could for obtaining
fome new gift from his Highnes to them, as if his journey had been only undertaken for
the Colledge, and that it was incumbent to them to bear all his charges dureing his long
abode at London, (befide all that he gott liberallie from his Highnefs, and lykewayes
from the Remonftrating partie, who were thofe that fent him up in that journey,) he hath
taken of the Colledge 20 fh. fterling money for ilk day, from his going from Scotland
to his returne back againe, which being the space of eleven moneths, will extend to
three hundred pound fterling, and above.
3. Thirdlie, As if the famen had not been enough, he hath obtained a warrand (fome
eight or ten dayes after he had gotten warrand for the precedent foume) under the hands
of the Mafters of the Colledge, for 300 pound fterling further ; which bears that the faid
300 pounds fhall be payed out of the firft and readieft that the Colledge fhall obtaine by
the late gift of the tithes of thefe benefices, chaplanries, and others, within the Bifhop
rick of Glafgow, which his Highnefs has paft in favours of and for the behoof of the faid
Colledge : And befides both thefe foumes, which extend to 600 pound fterling, the
Colledge, upon his account, given up to them of deburfements and expenfes he was at
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procureing and paffing of that late gift, have allowed the faid Mr. Patrick 120 pound
fterling or thereby.
4. Fourthlie, Howbeit it be incumbent to Mr. Patrick, in regard of his place and truft,
by all lawfull meanes to better the yearly revenues of that Colledge whereof he is Princi-
pall, yet he hath taken a gift, and hath a right paffed to him by the Moderators thereof
that what he can finde out for augmenting the old rentall of the Colledge, fpeciallie in
the Bifhoprick of Galloway, the equall half thereof fliall be appropriat to himfelf yearly,
during all the dayes of his lifetime, and that by and attour his large falary which yearly
is provided and payed to him.
5. Fifthlie, All this is the more to be taken notice of ; First, Becaufe it is well known
that other gracious, learned, and moft able men, who have been Principals in that Col
ledge thefe many yeares bygane, and faithfullie went about the difoharge of their duetie
therein, diverfe of them did obtain, by their diligence and care, from the late King, his
Father, and others who were Governours in this nation, a great deal more nor yet hes
been in that kinde by Mr. Patrick ; as Mr. Patrick Sharp obtained the Perfonage of
Govane, Principall Boyd the Perfonages of Renfrew and Kilbryde, and Dr. Strang the
Biihoprick of Galloway, and other cafualities ; yet none of them either did require, or
took any thing of the faid Colledge, or of the benefices that were brought in to it by
their paines, by way of gratuity or otherwayes. Secondlie, Becaufe it was well known
that unlefs the Principall of the Colledge be willing, and confent, no right can be granted
of anie part of the rents of that Houfe to any perfon ; which makes it clear that what is
granted to Mr. Patrick of this kinde, hath made its rife from himfelf, or if it was firft
moved by others, that he hath readilie accepted what was offered. Thirdlie, Becaufe
it is certaine that the whole rents of the Colledge is to be imployed in pious and publift
ufes, for the behoof and maintenance of poor Students, of the Fabrick, and Bibliotheck,
and that the Principall and Mafters are only adminiftrators of the rents of the Houfe,
who can not be anfwerable to God nor man, if they lhall appropriat any part thereof to
themfelves, except what is allowed to them for their falary ; and this they muft make
appear in their yearly accounts, which are to be made yearly, whereof the Proveft and
Baillies of Glafgow are appointed to be Auditors.
No. XCVI.
LETTER, MR. PATRICK GILLESPIE, TO MR. DAVID DICKSON.
[Orig.— Wodrow MSS. Folio Vol. XXVI, No. 22.]
RIGHT REVEREND, London, July 2d 1657.
I AM heartily forrie that our breach ihould beare fuch characters of judgement, as ar
mor then legible in the mifgiving of all endevours which haue been applied for healing,
VOL. III. 4 D
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and doe put a difcouragement vpon all men who wifhe our Vnione henceforth to endeu-
our it. I need not reprefent to yow things which haue been experimented by us on all
hands, how much the work of the Gofpell, and the ordinances of Chrift, fuffer through
our divifiones ; but I defire to put yow in mind how much wee ar at a lofle, by our
differences, vpon this account, that the minifters of Scotland being fo much on in judge
ment, and aggreed in fo many things as that they ar mor on[e] then any fuch number of
minifters in any of the Reformed churches, yet cannot walk together becaus of difference
about thefe things, which gaue the rife to our breache. This befpeaks us in the judge
ment of fober men, to be of very vnfober fpirits, and of extremlie rigid principles to
ward all others who differ from us in the leaft things. I am therfor humbly bold with
yow, (to whom I acknowledge I owe verie much, and for whom I haue an efteeme be-
comming my obligations), to befeech yow yet to take into your ferious confederation
thefe things which were required by yow from us at the laft Conference for Vnion, and
were not agreed unto vpon on[e] part ; and to fee what abatement may be of your de
mands, and what farther condefcenfion for peace-fake, as I am alfo willing in like maner to
think of thefe things demanded on on[e] part, and fo farras I can, with a good confcience,
to ftretch myfelf, and to befeech others, to all poffible and lawfull condefcenfion. And
however I have been represented to yow, in my vndertaking this journey, or manage
ment of my truft heer, (as I haue mor then probable ground to think I haue been mif-
reprefented), yet I am confident to make it appear that an honeft peace hath been de-
figned in the firft place by me and thefe who fent me hither, and that inculpata tutela
hath but a fecond confideratione with us. If yow judge any thing heer worthie your
thoughts, (wherin I profefle I haue no defigne befide the preferuation of our Churche
Government by our own concord, for which I could be exiled if that could procure it),
vpon your intertainement of the motione, in any probable way of agreement for careing
on the work of Reformation, yow fhall command my cordial fervice, and poor endevours
for that end. Your louing Brother to feme yow,
P. GlLLKSPIB.
For the Reverend Mr. David Dickfone, Profeffor of Theologie in the
Colledge of Ed'., and Mr. Robert Douglas, Minifter at Edr.
XCVII.
MR. JAMES SHARP TO BAILLIE, AND BAILLIE'S REPLY.
[Orig. Wodrow MSS. Folio Vol. XXVI, Nos. 86 and 75.— These letters are not contain
ed in Baillie's own collection. They should have been included in the body of the work,
at page 382 of the present volume ; but they were overlooked at the time, from the cir
cumstance of the first letter having no address, and the second, being simply indorsed
1658. ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 579
" Double of ane letter sent to Mr. J. Sharp," and having neither the writer's name,
address, or date. An examination of the letters, leaves no doubt as to the writers or
persons who were addressed. A few corrections, and the words near the beginning
of the last letter, printed within brackets, are in the hand-writing, apparently, of John
Bell, who may have been the bearer of the letter itself]
No. 1.
REVEREND Sr Craill, Auguft 2, 7 aclock in the morning, 1658.
THE boxe yow fent, with all the papers yow mention, came to my hand yefternight,
the 1 of this currant. I am fo overcharged with bufines at prefent, beeng to preach to
morrow, and on Weddenfday the exercife befor the Prefbytrie lyeth upon me, that it
will not be poffible for me to goe about the difpatches to London, in reference to your
Town's bufines. Since the petition from the burghs, and that alfo from your Town, are
not fent to London, I know no furer way to gett them prefented to his Highnes then by
our friend there, elfe Mr. Lockart, or the Prowoft of Edinburgh might have offered
them, if they had been in time fent to them. I am hopefull that our freind will be re
turned to London befor that our letters can come thither, and I think I may perfwade
him to ufe meanes that thefe petitions fhall be delivered to the Proteftor, that if he find
not the opportunity to prefent them by himfelf, the Secretary, or one of our freinds of
the Councill at Whythall, may doe it ; and, for this end, I purpofe to wreat to the
Secretary and one of the Councill. Some three dayes agone I receaved the refolution
of the Printer above, anent the readie deliverie of the books to the Stationar, and that
yow may know what it is, I have fent it heirin inclofit for your perufall, that when
yow have feen it, and confidered of it, yow may fend it to Edinburgh to my Brother.
I know the fubfcryver of the letter, Alexr Blair, to be diligent and punctually faythfull
in what I or my Brother will put upon him, and a fitt perfon to manage fuch a bufines ;
but I think his allowance he craves for change and exchange exorbitant, and if the way
he mentions in his letter, which I do not know, or any other yow could fall upon, could
make it more eafy, I wifhe it were fpeedily done : and therfor I have fent away the
bearer to yow, that yow may have time to fend your refolution theranent to Edinburgh
again Fridayes night the 6 inftant, again which tinje I fhall have my letters ready to
our friends above, and fhall fend them by an exprefs to Edinburgh, that by the Saturna-
dayes poaft they may be tranfmitted to London. Since yow judge it fitt that books be
delivered to the Stationer, I think it will be conducing to the more effeftual managing
of your Town's bufines, that an eflay be made upon him by the Printer at the time of the
delivery of my pacquett to him. I could wifh that the charge of thefe books might be
awoydit ; but I am ftill of opinion it is the moft promifing way yow can fall upon for
the effeftuall profecuting of your bufines. I fhall wreat to our freind, upon fuppofition
that the Printer is in readines to deliver thefe books, and fhall fend the petitions with
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your other papers to him. I {hall wreat alfo to Col. Witham to further the bufines by
his letters. I know not if M. Patrick hath got the report to be fent up ; but I hope
your papers will come in time. I have not the time now fully to perufe them, but I
{hall, upon my fending of them to Edinburgh, give yow an account of what {hall be
done with them. The account of the port charge will be given to yow by my Brother
alfo. I would not keep the bearer for lofing of time to yow. I need not mind yow of
the necefllty of keeping the matter of the books and the Stationar with all clofenes, and
that your refolution therin be fpeedily fent to Edinburgh. I have not as yet feen M.
John Carftares. I am fo ftraitned that I can adde no more ; but commending yow,
with the Lord's work in your hand, to mercy and grace, that I am,
Your uery loving Brother,
JA : SHARP.
Prefent my refpefts to M. Baily, as alfo to Mr. Bell, and excufe I have not fent a
particular returne to his. My Wife hath yow kindly remembred.
No. 2.
REVEREND AND DEIR BROTHER,
VPON the recait of yours, and the ficht of the inclofed that was diredt to your Brother,
by Alex*. Blair, John Bell was fent from this to Edinburgh, wha, (as ye defyred in
yours,) delyvered Alex'. Blair's to your Brother. As for the books mentioned thairin,
your Brother thocht fitt that David Thomfoun fhould have them, and [Mr. Scharp being
aff town, at his returne, Mr. Bell fpak to him again, and appointed to meit with him the
morrow afore I went of the Toune; bot that morning he uent to fie my Ld Suintoun, fo I
mifled him becaus I behooved that day to uait upon Defborou, and I left the monie
w* Wm. Mitchell, merchant to be delyvered to him quho hath fent me the letter ;] and
fince a letter beiring fo much is cum to this place, dire&ed to John Bell ; wha, befoir he
cam bak fra Edinburgh, your Brother fhew me the box with the letters quhilk cam from
yow to go to London, and geav affurance for the port, &c. quhatfomever it fhould be.
How fuin thes letters, with the books, quhilk by the Printer wer to be put in the Sta
tioner's hand, wer fent away, wee heir have not hard, bot wald be glaid to ken
quhat zee have hard thairanent, for it was not thocht fitt that anie of our wyfe fecreit
freinds heir fhould mak inquirie for thes things, leaft uthirs thairupon micht have
drawne inferences. The Lord Keiper and Swintoun have bein heir this ouk. The
Lord Eeiper was at the Newmils, drinking of the waters thair for his helth ; and
duiring his abod at Newmils, was waited vpon by fum fent fra this, quha caried
with them fik things as wer fitt for the Lord Eeiper, quhilk reddilie that place
quhairin he was could not afford him. He cam to this toun vpon the Wednefday quhair
nathing was left undon that could evidenc thair refpecls to his Lordfhip ; Swintoun
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alfo was faluted, and courteflie intertinied. The Lord Keiper at his going fra this fpak the
Proveft, with Baillie Walkinfhaw, and fum few vthirs anent that debait quhilk had long
bein betuixt them and Mr. Gillefpie, and told, that Mr. Gillefpie was willing to fub-
mitt all to him ; quhairvnto they replyed, that if the particular quhairin the difference
hes bein, wer a mater of thair fortoun, or fik as wer in thair power, they wald willing-
lie lay it doun at his feit, to be difpofed vpon at his Lordfhip's pleafour. Bot in regaird
that it was the liberties of thair Burgh, quhilk to thair pouer they wer oblidged by oath
to mentein, and that the whol Royall Burghs had looked vpon that buffines as a mater
concerning them all, and vpon that confideration had petitioned his Highnes, the Lord
Prote&our for the burgh of Glafgow ; upon thir and uther weightie reafouns they wer
forced to beg his Lordfhip's favour, and intreat that he wald not tak it ill that in that
they could not agre to anie fubmiffion. And with all they fhew his Lordfhip that if he
or the Councell of Stait in all the nerrow and acurat fearch that had bein taken, fand
anie perfoun of thes quha wer in office, or on the Toun-Councell, that deferved to be re
moved fra truft, or for a'tym to be laid afyd, they profefied that moft willinglie they
fhould geiv obedience thairvnto. Quhen the Lord Keiper fand them thus refolved, with
out anie fignification ather of diffatiffa&ion or of fatiffaftion with thair anfuer, his Lord
fhip prefTed them no farther, onlie it was thocht that he fhew Mr. Gillefpie that the in-
terpofition quhilk he offered to mak wald not prove effectuall for what Mr. Gillefpie
defyred. Quhat courfe heirafter will be followed by Mr. Gillefpie in profecutiori of
that report, (whilk zit is not fent vp to Lundoun) wee can not tell, or how the Lord
Defburrow will carie in the buffines, wee heir ken not ; onlie, it is apprehendit that
one of thrie may now be efTayed, ather to get the report with all fpeid fent up and baked
with Swintoun's moyen, that upon its being prefented to the Prote&our, ordour may be
givin to remove the prefent Magiftrats, and put in P. G. his pairtie ; or it may be that
the tym of the election being neir at hand, vpon the firft Twyfday of Oftober, they will
deall for a new letter fra the Prote&our to ftope a new election, as they did the laft zeir :
or that the whol mater be fent back to the Councell of Scotland that they may deter
mine in that buffines heir, and till that be don, a letter be procured fhortlie fra the Coun
cell of Stait in Scotland, direft to the prefent Magiftrats to ftay anie new eleftion till
his Highnes, upon the report fent up to him, declair his pleafour quhat he will have don
in that mater for the clofing of it. As oft befoir, the Toun, in thair ftraits, fo now alfo
they have fent this exprefe, and by my letter to zow, acquants zow with thair buffines
how it ftands, intreating that ze wald be pleafed to writ anew to zour freind above ; and
try at the Prenter's quhat is becum of the books that wer to be put in the Stationer's hand,
and how he was fatiffied with them ; as alfo quhidder zour freind the Stationer hes gottin
the box above fent vp, and quhat is don with the petitions and uthir papers that went
up in it. As alfo, they wald be glaid that, if zee think fitt, zour freind be informed of
quhat now- 1 have acquainted you with, and hee intreated to gaird above, in fo far as
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may be, againd anie courfe that can be taken vnderhand or vtherways by P. G. and his
freinds thair to the Toun's prejudice, and becaus C[ol.] Watham will bed found Defbor-
row's mynd anent his Cat if tact ion or (lill'.itii'taction with the Tourfs anfuer geivin to his
Lordlhip heir, they intreat that zee wald writ to him thairanent, in fo wyfe and cannie
a way as zee think will be mod convenient, and with all deal! with the Colonel), that
if anie motion be mad[e] be Swintoun, or anie vther to the Councell of Stait heir, that he
wald fie to it, and hinder it fo far as may be, at lead till the Toun be called to plead for
themfelf. Your fecreit freinds heir have fum thoughts of fending upe a verie active and
honed young man to wait for fum tyme on thair affairs thair. They will direft him to
Mr. John Lockhart, qulia is now at Court, (if at all he be fent,) bot thair purpofe is
that he may, by letters weiklie, let them ken if anie thing be in agitation relating to
them, and that he may underdand thes mainlie by the Stationer ; no that ather the Toun,
or he that fhall be fent thair, may ken quha zour freind is that a&s for them abov, at
zour intreatie ; bot the information may be conveyed to him be the mediation of the
Printer or fum vther handfum way yee will prefcryve. Bot in this they intend to
follow zour advyfe, in fending one vpe or not to wait thair as agent for them, to re
member thair freinds of their buflines, as faid is. The Toun has hithertills holden aff
anie nomination of a perfoun for filling Mr. Durham's place, and by fair general dealing
with our commoun feffion hes keiped them fra thair paremptour way. Bot in end,
quhen maters cums to a paremptour, they then intend to follow the advyfe they have
gottin fra thair freinds thair Eaft ; and withall they have thouchts of indevouring, (if
they fend vp anie perfoun to attend thair effairs,) to obtain a letter fra the Proteftour
to the Councill of Stait in Scotland, for ordaning that the Toun of Glafgow may be war
ranted to mak choife of a minifter for thair vacant place, and that none, againd the con-
fent of the Magiftrates and Councell and the bodie of the Toun, be thrud vpon them.
If ze think this feafable, zee will geiv zour beft advyfe how it fhall be obtained, and
quhat courfe fhall be followed for that effect. And lykways they conceav it may be
eflayed to obtain fra the Prote&our a favorable letter for the Toun of Glafgow direct to
the Councell of Stait heir, vpon the Burrows thair petition prefented to his Highnes for the
toun of Glafgow. Your fingular refpefts to the publick intereft and to the good of this
place, imboldens me to be thus trublefum, as to intreat for zour patienc in reading, and
wifdom and wonted reddines to do, in the above-mentioned particulars, fo far as zee conceav
may be for thair good, and with all by zour letter with this beirer, to let me ken quhat zee
think fitted to be don in thair fending of one vp, and in that whilk relaits to a Minifter,
and to the Burrows thair petition : For the teftifeing of the Toun's refpefts of thankfulnes,
to zour felf for all the expenfie and pains zee have bein put to in thair efFairs, I fhall for
the tym fay nothing. Bot if they can be vfefull to the publick intereft, or any thing can
be don[e] by them to tedifie thair refpe&s thairto, let me know, and I dar fay in thair
nam they will not be inlaiking.
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XCVIII.
BAILLIE'S COMMENDATORY LETTER PREFIXED TO DURHAM'S
COMMENTARY ON THE BOOK OF THE REVELATION, 1658.
[Baillie incidently mentions (vol. iii. p. 312) his being a hearer of Durham's Lectures ;
and referring to his last illness (ib. p. 368), he says, « the perfecting of his work
on the Revelation for the presse was very heavie." It was published at London
three or four months after his death:—" A Commentarie upon the Book of the
Revelation, &c. Delivered in several Lectures, by that learned, laborious, and faith-
full servant of Jesus Christ, MR. JAMES DURHAM, late Minister of the Gospel in Glas
gow.— London, printed for the Company of Stationers, Anno Dora. 1658," folio.
The particulars of Durham's life — by birth a private gentleman,— his serving in the
army, — his call and devotedness in the work of the ministry — his death in July 1658
at the early age of 36— are well known, or may be found in numerous biographies ;
and his various writings, always highly esteemed, are still deservedly popular in this
country.]
READER, — Being defired to fpeak my knowledge of this fubfequent Work, I acknow
ledge that I was one who frequently encouraged the Author to let it go abroad. For,
however he had no time to polifh it, and what is here almoft all was taken from his
mouth by the pen of an ordinary hearer : Yet I am affured, the matter of it, as I heard
it weekly delivered, is fo precious as cannot but be very welcom and acceptable to the
world of believers. I am confident, that the gracious defign which fome worthy Breth
ren amongft us have in hand, and have now far advanced to the good fatiffaftion of all
who have tailed of the firft fruits of their labours, of making the body of Holy Scrip
tures plaine and ufefull to vulgar capacities, is not a little furthered by this piece : For,
albeit with greater length (as the nature of the Book of neceflity did require) than thefe
Brethren's defign of fhortnefle doth admitt ; yet it maketh very plain and ufefull that
without all queftion hardeft of all Scriptures. This I can fay, that diverfe of the moft
obfcure texts of that holy Book, which I underftood little at the beginning of his Lec
ture, before he clofed his Exercife, were made to me fo clear, that I judged his Expofi-
tion might well be acquiefced into without much more debate.
That wit were more than ordinary weak, which durft promife from the pen of any
man a clear and certain Expofition of all the Revelation before day of performance of
thefe very deep and myfterious Prophefies. It was not for nought, that moft judicious
Calvin and acute Beze, with many other profound Divines, would never be moved to
attempt any explication of that Book : Yet I hope I may make bold to affirm, without haz
ard of any heavie cenfure, that there is here laid fuch a bridge over that very deep
river, that whoever goeth over it, fliall have caufe to blefie God for the Author's labour.
584 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1658.
The Epiftle fpeaketh to the man : I {hall adde but this one word, That from the day
I was employed by the Prefbyterie to preach and pray and to impofe, with others, hands
upon him for the Miniftery at Glafgow, I did live to the very laft with him in great
and uninterrupted love, and in an high eftimation of his egregious induements, which
made him to me precious among the moft excellent Divines I have been acquainted with
in the whole Ifle. O if it were the good pleafure of the M after of the Vineyard to
plant many fuch noble vines in this land ! I hope many more of his labours {hall fol
low this firft, and that the more quickly, as this doth receive the due and expected
acceptance. Thefe in the Lord.
ROBERT BAYLIE.
Q" The Epistle M to which Baillie refers in this last paragraph, is an address " To the
judicious and Christian Reader," by Mr. John Carstare s, one of the Ministers of Glas
gow, from which the following is an extract : — J
THE Reverend (now triumphing and glorified) Author was fo famous and de-
fervedly in high efteem in our Church, both becaufe of the fingular and extraordi
nary way of God's calling him forth to the Miniftery of the Gofpel, having left
the Univerfity wherein I was at the fame time a ftudent) before he had finiflied
his courfe of Philofophie, and without any purpofe to follow his book, at leaft in
order to fuch an end ; and having lived feverall years a private gentleman, with
his wife and children, enjoying a good eftate in the countrie, from which he did,
no doubt, to the great diflatiffa&ion of many of his natural friends and with not
a little prejudice to his outward condition, retire, and (being called thereto) humbly
offer himfelf to trials, far from his own home, in order to his being licentiate! to preach
the Gofpel ; in the Miniftery whereof he was immediately therafter fettled here at Glaf
gow, where it hath not wanted a feal in the confciences and hearts of his hearers.
And alfo becaufe of his eminent piety, ftedfaftnefie, gravity, prudence, moderation, and
other great abilities, whereof the venerable General Aflembly of this Church had fuch per-
fwafion that they did, in the year 1650, after mature deliberation, very unanimoufly pitch
upon him, though then but about eight and twenty years of age, as amongft the ableft,
fickereft, and moft accomplifhed minifters therein, to attend the King's family, in which
ftation, though the times were moft difficult, as abounding with tentations and fnares,
with jealoufies, heart-burnings, emulations, and animofities ; and flowing with high tides
of many various and not a few contrary humours, he did fo wifely and fathfully be
have and acquit himfelf, that there was a conviction thereof, left upon the conciences of
all who obferved him, and fo as he had peace through Jefus Chrift as to that
miniftratiou
In the whole feries [of thefe Lectures] — thou will difcover — great light in the Scriptures,
and very deep reach in the profoundeft and moft intricate things in Theologie, to a publick
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profeffion whereof, in this University of Glafgow, he was fometime (to wit, a little before
his being appointed to attend the King's family) by the Commiffioners of the General
Aflembly, authorized for vifiting the faid Univerfity, moft unanimoufly and folemnly de-
figned and called, to the great fatiffaaion and refreshment of many ; and more particular
ly, and efpecially of famous and worthy Mr. Dickfon, to whom the precious Author was
chofen to lucceed in that profeffion (he being called to a profeffion of the fame nature in
the Univerfity of Edinburgh), as one of the ableft and beft furniflied men, (all things
being confidered) in our Church, that were not already engaged in fuch employ men ta
and moft likely to fill Mr. Dickfon's room
JOHN CARSTAIRS.
Glafgow, 23d September 1658.
XCIX.
GENERAL MONCK TO MR. ROBERT DOUGLAS. MARCH 1660.
[Orig.— Wodrow MSS. Folio XXVI. No. 50. The words printed in Italics are
deleted in the MS.]
SIR,
I RECEIVED your letter of the firft of March which was very welcome to mee, and
muft acknowledge myfelf much bound to you and the reft of your Brethren for your
prayers and councell, and I hope through grace I fhall not be found wanting to God
and my country in the purfuance of thofe ends for which I vndertooke this quarrell. I
have bin very much fatiffied with feverall difcourfes that I had with yow, nott long be
fore my leaving Scotland, wherein yow have expreffed your care of the Church of God,
and your indifference as to Civil Government. And truly, Sir, I hope that all wife and
good Chriftians will not thinke itt their intereft to runne into blood for any fingle or par
ticular Civill forme of Government whatfoever. As for Prefbytery, what I declare to
the world, which was both my confcience and reafon, fo I afiure yow I adjudge itt the beft
expedient to heal the bleeding divifions of thefe poore Nations, foe itt be moderate and ten
der, otherwife itt will but inrage our difeafe and increafe our wound : And I blefle the Lord
that I have received your concurrence in this particular. As Scotland hath bin alwayes
deare to mee, foe much more am I now ingaged for thofe large expreffions of their love
and affe&ion to mee, which I have foe lately experienced. And I doe affure yow, Sir,
that there is nothing wherein I can ferve them with fecurity to the Common Wealth,
but they fhall command mee. The great allurements that drew me from that defired
privacy were none others but to endeavour a fettlement wherin wee might have pro-
te£bion from Tyranny and Anarchy, and the Churches of Jefus Chrift their juft liberty ;
foe that I hope, while wee are going forward to thefe good ends, good men will nott quarrell
with vs if wee doe nott proceed in every particular according to their judgements, but
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586 ORIGINAL LETTERS AND PAPERS. 1661.
will acquiefce in the Providence of God, and in the llefolutions of thofe in authority. I
know yow have bin a great inftrument of good in that Church, and therfore doe defire
yow to vfe your intereft for the prefervation of the peace, and the quieting mens fpirits,
M'hich is indeed both the duty and the glory of a Chriftian, and the efpeciall worke of
the Miniftrie of the Gofpell. I hope yow will nott mifmterprett thefe expreflions as if I
had the leaft jealoufye of my deare freinds in Scotland, but judge they proceed from my
tendernes and care, for the prevention of future troubles and divifions. I have noe fur
ther but to begge the continuance of your prayers. I am,
Your very loving freind and fervant,
S. James's 14> Mar. 1659 [1660.] GEOROK MONCK.
Mr. Robert Douglafs.
For the Reverend Mr. ROBERT DOUGLAS at Edinburgh. Thefe.
C.
THE EARL OF MIDDLETON TO THE LORD CLERK-REGISTER.
[Orig. — Wodrow MSS. 8vo. XI. No. 7. — The Act to which this letter refers was
unquestionably one " of the greatest consequence imaginable," being the Act Rescis-
sory, passed on the following day, the 28th of March, by which all Parliamentary
proceedings subsequent to the year 1639, were at once annulled.]
Edinburgh, March 27, 1661.
MY LORD,
THE A& that is now before you is of the greateft confequence imaginable, and is like
to meet with many difficulties if not fpeedily gone about. Petitions are preparing, and
if the thing were done, it would dafh all thefe buftling oppofitions. My Lord, your
eminent fervices done to his Majefty in this Parliament cannot but be remembered to
your honour and advantage. I am fo much concerned becaufe of the great help and
afiiftance I have had from you, that I cannot, without injuftice and ingratitude, be want
ing in a juft refentment. Now I am more concerned in this than I was ever in a parti
cular. The fpeedy doing is the thing I propofe as the great advantage, if it be
poffible to prepare it, to be prefented to-morrow by ten o'clock in the forenoon to the
Articles, that it may be brought into the Parliament to-morrow in the afternoon. The
reafon of this hafte (hall be made known to you at meeting by,
My Lord,
Your moft affectionate Servant,
MIDDLETON.
For [Archibald Primrofe] my Lord Regifter.
GLOSSARY OF OBSOLETE WORDS.
Accresse — increase, accession.
A doe-— exertion .
Adoes — concerns.
Affraye — to terrify.
AJlought, inflocht — fluttered, in a flurry.
Agreeance, grea.nce — agreement.
Airth — direction.
Allanerlie, allenarly — only.
A llutterly — altogether.
Alssoone — as soon.
Always — however, nevertheless.
Amirs — embers.
Ancessouris — ancestors.
And — if.
Anent — concerning.
Assession — the act of assessors.
Athort, — abroad, far and wide.
Athort — athwart, through, across.
At once — by and by.
Attoned — at one, brought to concord.
A ught — ought .
A ughtand—-o\v'mg.
Avocke— call away, prevent.
Ayre (i. 133) — first whisper.
Babies — infants.
Back, lacks — a body of followers or sup
porters.
Backing — supporters, followers, partizans.
Bains — baths.
Baird — beard .
Bairns— children .
Band — oath, written obligation.
Bardish — impertinent .
Baseness — humble terms.
Bayard (ii. 75) — bankrupt.
Baxters — bakers.
Beddall — sexton.
Been — be-en — being.
Bensail — bent-sail, bias, propensity,
Beseek — beseech .
Bicker, bikkeriug — contention, strife.
Bicocks — a term of reproach.
Blaw — to flatter, to coax.
Blenk, blink — to look with a favourable eye.
Blenk, blink — slight perusal, a glance.
Blephum — mere pretence.
Blew bore — fair appearance, an opening in
the clouds.
Block — to plan, to devise.
Blocking — framing, rough hewing.
Blustered — blotted, disfigured in writing.
Blithe — glad.
Boast, boasted — threats, to threaten.
Bocardo — spectre, bugbear.
Bonny — elegant, fine, beautiful.
jBoord-head—hesid of the table.
Boarding — boarding.
Brae — declivity.
Braid and wide (i. 16) — far and near.
Brangled — to confound, to throw into dis
order.
Breast a brae — to climb, to surmount a
difficulty.
Brether — brethren, brothers.
Broaching — hatching, opening up.
Bruckle — brittle.
Bud, budds — a bribe, bribes.
Suits — matches for firelocks.
Burn-ill — suffered severely.
By — besides.
Bygane — in time past.
Bygones — denoting what is past.
0
Caged — imprisoned .
Call, co? — to drive.
Canny, cannie — sly, prudent, cautious.
Cannyness — prudence, caution, skill.
Carder — player at cards.
Cass — to annull.
GLOSSARY.
Catches — ketches, ships
( -auldrifeness — coolness, want of ardour.
Caulms, chalmes — moulds.
Cawey — street.
(Javell — lot, to cast cavels.
Ceeding— ceding, yielding.
Cessing — taxing, assessing.
Chainzied — chained.
Chock, choack — critical moment, or state.
Clagg — clog.
Clanculary — secret.
Clap — instantaneously, in a moment.
Clatters — idle reports.
Coft — bought, purchased.
Coinzie-house — mint-house.
Coldrife — lukewarm .
Compear — appear.
Compearance — presenting one^s self.
Compesce — to restrain.
Compesced — defeated, restrained.
Conditions — stipulates.
Convase — to combine.
Cotters — cottagers.
Coule — cap, night-cap.
Coupers — horse-jockies, horse-dealers.
Craw — crow.
Cracking — credit decreasing.
Craig — throat.
Creevishes — crayfish .
Crise — crisis.
CrooJce— iron chain by which the vessel is
suspended above the fire.
Crowner — colonel, commander of troops
raised in one county.
Crub— curb.
Cujfes — blows.
Cummer — gossip .
Cunninglie— -skilfully.
Cusing — cousin .
Currants, currents— diurnals, journals.
Curious — anxious, fond.
Cnttedly — hastily, sharply.
D
Dainties— & rare thing.
Dear, deir— to hurt, injure, grieve.
Deaved — deafened .
Deboische (ii. 341)— to corrupt, debauch.
Debosching (ii. 72) — corrupting.
Deboirded (i. 148) — deboirdeit (ii. 384)—
swerved, gone beyond bounds.
Decairt (i. 303) — discard.
Decerned — adjudged, gave judgment.
Decreet — sentence.
Dement'— in deprive of reason.
Demented — distracted, unsettled in mind.
Devoire — devour, swallow.
Dilled down — died away.
Dilligat (i. 307) — accurate, refined.
Dimit — to resign.
Dimitted — gave in his resignation.
Ding — beat, drive.
Dinn, dinne — noise.
Disjuw — breakfast, to swallow up at once.
Dittay — indictment, accusation.
Divott — turf.
Doctor — teacher.
Doen— doing.
Dool — grief, mourning.
Doolfull — doleful .
Dorlach (i. 212) — dagger, or short sword.
Double — a duplicate.
Double — to transcribe, to take a duplicate of.
Doun-sitting — session of a court.
Dow — to be capable of.
Driffling, drisling — small rain.
Drumly — muddy, troubled, applied to the
state of public matters.
Dwanging — oppressing, twisting one about.
Dyte—io dictate to an amanuensis.
Dyted, dieted— dictated, indyted.
Dyvour — bankrupt.
Dyvourie — state of bankruptcy.
E
Efferat — to make wild, to madden.
Eik, eiks — an addition, additions, to add.
Eishu (i, 250) — eschew.
Eldership — kirk-session, or vestry- of a par
ticular congregation.
Else — already, even now.
Emme (i. 241) — aim.
Engynes (i. 97) — abilities.
Entresse, enteres — interest.
Erch, to (ii. 76) — to scare, to shrink from.
Evited — shunned.
Exeemed— exempted .
Expone — to explain, expound.
Eyed, not yet much, (i. 113) — not yet much
examined or looked at.
Eylist— eye-list, a flaw, an eye-sore.
GLOSSARY.
589
Faill — failure .
Fairly (ii. 161) — gently, in a civil manner.
Falset — falsehood .
Panged — laid hold of.
Farder — farther.
Fasch, fasched — to trouble, troubled.
Fasckerie — trouble of mind as well as body.
Faschious — troublesome .
Faught — fight, battle.
Feck — number, quantity, effect.
Feckless — helpless, useless.
Feed — feud.
Pell — considerable.
Ferd — force, fervour.
Pem — quit-rents .
Field-coming — coming abroad.
Flim-flams — triffles, whims.
Ftitt — remove.
Flocht, flouct, flought — flame, combustion.
Flyting — scolding.
Foot (i. 191) — system of executive.
Foragainst — opposite to.
Foranent, foranence — in front of.
Forbears — predecessors, ancestors .
Frae — since.
Franche — frank, forward.
Fray, frayes — terror, alarms.
Fray — to be afraid.
Frequent numbers — great concourse.
Frequently — numerously.
Fussies (i. 197) — fosses.
FyU — to stain, to defile, to bring in a
verdict of guilty.
G
Galliard, gallziard — brisk, lively.
Gatt — got.
Gloom, glowming — frown, gloming.
Glowring — staring.
Good-brother — brother-in-law.
Good-dame — grandmother.
Good-son — son-in-law.
Gourd — cross-grained, twisted.
Greance — agreement, accord.
Gripp — hold.
Grit — great.
Gutt — gout.
Guyses — fashions, ceremonies.
Gyed not— turned not to one side, ajee.
Gyred— jeered.
H
Hable — able.
Haill — whole.
Hair, against the— against the grain.
Half quick — half-alive.
Halse — throat .
Hask (ii. 63) — coarse, or ungracious!
Haunched, haunshed— eagerly catched,
snatched at as a dog.
Headiness — rashness .
Heard — to be heard, scolding or wrang
ling.
Hemly — familiar, homely.
Henwile — a lure, stratagem.
Here yesterday— day before yesterday.
Hiest— highest.
Hinck — reserve.
Hinder end — latter end.
Hinging — hanging, in suspense.
Hings — hangs .
Hipped — passed over, omitted.
Hoast, host — a cough, a hem, hesitation.
Horn, put to tJie— outlawed, denounced a
rebel.
Horning— denouncing one a rebel.
Hose-nett — a snare.
Howbeit — although.
Howes — difficulties, the background.
Hunder — a hundred.
Ignaries — ill-informed persons.
Ilk — each.
Illighten— enlighten .
Impeachit — accused.
Impesched — prevented, impeded.
Ingeminat — to repeat, reiterate.
Inkling — distant hint.
Inlaik — deficiency, to run short.
Interesse — interest.
Interloquitor—(a> law-term,) decision, in
termediate decree.
Inthorned — entangled, surrounded.
Into— often used for in.
Jutors, jutes— tipplers.
590
GLOSSARY.
K
Kist— chest.
Kyth, kythed— appear, shew, shewn.
Ladderit — scaled with ladders.
Laigh—\ovr.
/, 'tilth.*. Lammess — the term of Lammas.
Lashnes — laxnes.
Latter* — hinderers.
Law — hill.
Lay to — charge one with.
Leaguer— encampment .
Leek — leaky.
Leet, leit — list.
Leit, upon the, leitit — in nomination to be
elected to an office.
Legers — resident commissioners.
Lent-fire — slow fire.
Let be — much less.
Libel — indictment .
Loft — gallery.
Lope (i. 6) — passed to their friends.
Loppen (ii. 217) — past time of leap.
Lourd — to stoop for concealment, to steal
a march.
Lourden, lurdane — a lazy, worthless fellow.
Lunts (ii. 422) — matches.
II
Maisser, messer — macer.
Make (to) — to muster, to assemble.
Malison — evil wish, curse.
Mr. — Master of Arts.
Mastress — Mrs., wife.
Meins, make meins — use means.
Mell, mellit — to meddle, meddled.
Mends — reparation .
Mids, midses— means.
Minded — resolved.
Mint — to attempt, to aim at.
MiscJiant — mischievous.
Mishappens — misfortunes, unfortunates.
Misken — to misknow, overlook.
Miskent — to seem to be ignorant of.
Mister — want, need.
Moe — more (in number.)
More matters — greater matters.
Morrow — the next day, the day after.
Moyen — influence.
Muntoure — piece of mechanism, a watch.
Mynde, myndit — to mine, undermined.
N
Neaves — fists.
Niggie-naggies — trifles.
Nill he, will he — whether he will or not.
Nipshot-— drawback ? or to give the slip i
Nocht — nought, not.
Nomothetick — legislation .
Non-fiance — want of confidence.
Nor — than.
Notars — notaries, attorneys.
Notour — publicly known.
Novations — innovations.
Nuiks — corners.
O
Oblis/i — oblige.
Opposite — opponents .
Outermost — utmost .
Paiked, pyked — drubbed.
Palme — the hand, or index of a watch.
Pansed — pense, thought.
Partie— opponent .
Pasche — Easter.
Patrocinie — patronage .
Peats — turf.
Peck of troubles — many, a deal of troubles.
Pendicle — appendage, a pendant.
Perquire — by heart, distinctly.
Phrase — pretence .
Pickeandr— piquant.
Picks — pikes.
Pley — plea, quarrell.
Pock — bag.
Port— carriage.
Posed (i. 72) — questioned.
Posed (i. 169) — imposed.
Pouch— pocket.
Prcedomining — predominating.
Prevade — to neglect.
Preveen — to anticipate, prevent.
Profession — professorship.
Propone — to propound.
Prospect — a perspective glass.
Pudder, pulder — powder.
Pudlit — besmeared.
Pure — poor.
GLOSSARY.
591
Pyked — drubbed, thrashed.
Pyking — picking.
Quatt — quitted .
Q
Racked — raked.
Raid — rode.
Ramage — wild, reckless.
Ramadge hawk — a wild untamed hawk.
Matt — a file of soldiers.
Readily — possibly, probably.
Recreio — recruit .
Reek, reik — smoke.
Refers, refer res — matters referred.
Rejagges — compunction, self-reproaches ?
Rejected — remitted back.
Remeid — remedy.
Repes (ii. 369) — presses I
Reponed — replaced .
Restrinyed — restrained, limited.
Retreat — retract .
Ridd-liand — taken in the act.
Rowmes — vacant places.
Rowne, round (in the eare) — to whisper.
JRuve, roove, ruif- — to clinch, settled beyond
the chance of alteration.
Ryves — teareth .
S
Salebrosities — rugged or ticklish grounds.
Sark — shirt.
Sawin — sown.
Scabrous — rugged, troublesome.
Scailled — to dismiss, to break up.
Scairced, (iii. 417) — scarcity, scanty.
Scant — scarce, scarcity.
Schoot — shout.
Scirp — to carp.
Sconces — f ortificati ons .
Scrubie — scurvy.
Scunner at — to loath.
Scutching — drubbing.
Sea-bank — sea-coast.
Secourse — support, succour, help.
Seller — cellar.
Send — sent.
Sess, sessing — cess, assessing.
Setter of tacks — letter of leases.
Shards — sherds .
Shew — the past time of show.
Shoare — to threaten.
Shored, shorit — threatened.
Shreue (shrewd) — wicked, unhappy.
Shryving — confession.
Sib — nearly related.
Sickerlie — surely, smartly.
Sicklike — such-like, in the same manner.
Sinle — seldom, few.
Skaith — damage, hurt, harm.
Skugg — shelter.
Slippen — slipped.
Smallie learned — an indifferent scholar,
with a small share of learning.
Smoord — smothered.
Sned — to lop, to prune.
Snell — smart.
Snifties (iii. 412.) — insignificant persons.
Sojors, sojours — soldiers.
Solist, solisted — to solicit, solicited.
Soone or syne — sooner or later.
Sopit — to lull asleep.
Sopour — slumber.
Souple — supple, active.
Soupe — sweep .
Soupit — sweeped.
Spaite, speat — inundation.
Speared, speired — asked, inquired.
Spied— observed.
Spleen — heat, irritation, umbrage.
Spunk — spark.
Staffage, staffrige — obdurate, unyielding.
Staill — numerous .
Staill-post — main-post, in the army.
Stark — strong.
Stearing — stirring.
Stick — stob, stab.
Stick — interfering obstacle.
Stoops — supporters, pillars.
Strang — strange, strong, bitter.
Stray, straes — straw, straws.
Sturr — stir.
Sua — so.
Subdolous — cunning, subtle.
Sunry — sundry.
Sute — request, supplication.
Sutit — solicited.
Syncretisms — promiscuous union.
Tacks — leases.
592
GLOSSARY.
Taitt— tale.
Takin — taking, being taken.
Tapouns (i. 298) — long fibres at the roots.
Targe — shield.
Tosses— drinking cups.
Teddered (i, 355) — tethered, stranded.
Tender — si ckly .
Teuchest — toughest.
The morn — to-morrow.
Thereanent — concerning it.
There-east — in the east, eastward.
There-forth, there-out— opposed to therein.
Thir— these.
Thought — though .
Thraw — to twist, to wrest.
Thraward — backward, reluctant, cross.
Through — to carry through, to perfect.
Throught — throughed, carried through.
Thrumbling (i. 123) — pressing into.
Thus and sua — so and so.
Tig, tag (ii. 113) — to triffle with, or teaze
one another.
Tinkled upon — to ring chimes about.
Tint — lost.
Tirlies — trellis or lattice.
TV— till.
Tocher — dowry.
Tod's birds — fox^s brood, evil brood.
Tolbooth, tolbuith — prison, jail.
To-morrow — the day after, the next day.
Toom«— empty.
Toone — tone.
Tope (ii. 88) — to check, to resist, to defeat.
Traiked — weakened by fatigue.
Trash — refuse, lumber.
Travell — labour, pains.
Trewes-men — Highlanders, men wearing
trews, or long pantaloons.
Trinketting — clandestine correspondence
with an opposite party.
Tryst — appointment, to meet with.
Tuilzie, tuilyie— contention, affray.
Tuitch, twitch — touch.
Twa part — two-thirds.
Tyne, tine — to lose.
U
Uncanny — mischievous, dangerous.
Undermyndit — undermined.
Unfriends-— enemies.
Undent — unknown .
Unlaws — escheat.
Unpaunded — unpledged.
Vaesse (ii. 420) — to evade.
Vaike—io be vacant.
Vaiking — becoming (or already) vacant.
Voice, voyce — to vote.
Volee — volley.
W
Wailed — selected.
Wait — blame.
Wanrest — one who causes inquietude.
War, warr — worse.
Warred, waured— out-stripped.
Water-brae — river-bank.
Weir — wear.
While— till
Whiles, whyles — sometimes, at times.
Whilk — which .
Whinget — hanger.
Win — to get in, to reach.
Wrack — wreck .
Writt, wryte — writing.
Wyte — blame.
Yocking — engaging.
Yocked- — begun, engaged.
Yondmost — uttermost .
Yowling — howling.
Zuill — Christmas.
Twenty- shilling or one pound Scotish money is 20 pence Sterling.
One merk is 13^d. Sterling.
To reduce Scotish money to pounds Sterling, divide the pounds
by 12, the merks by 18.
INDEX OF NAMES.
ABERCOBN, Earl of, 65, 81 ; ii. 317 ; iii.
366.
Abercromby, Adam, ii. 88.
Abercromby of Birkenbog, Alexander, 370 ;
ii. 91.
Aberdeen, 70, 93, 94, 205, 221, 222 ; ii.
164, 261, 262, 264; iii. 18, 35, 52,177,
250, 443, -». Assembly, 1640,
Aberdeen, Bishop of, v. Bellenden. Forbes.
Mitchell.
Aberdeen, Doctors of, 63, 96, 97, 101,
107, 116, 117, 121, 169.
Aberdeen, Ministry, 368-371 ; iii. 477-
Aberdeen, Presbytery of, 135.
Aberdeen, University of, 135, 491 ; iii.
242, 244, 282, 365, 456.
Aberfoyle, iii. 255.
Abernethie, Major Andrew, iii. 128.
Abernethie, Thomas, Jesuit, 82, 101, 222.
Abernethy, John, Bishop of Caithness,
165, 166, 425.
Aboyne, James, Viscount of, 197, 204,
220, 221 ; ii. 74, 116, 126, 137, 141,
164, 442 ; iii. 471.
Accommodation with Independents, ii. 230,
232, 260, 325-328, 343-346.
Acheson of Glencairne, Sir Archibald,
Secretar, 425.
Act of Classes, iii. 72, 80, 88, 92, 125,
160, 557.
Act of Grace, iii. 251, 252.
Adair of Kinhilt, Sir Robert, 111, 147.
Adair, William, minister of Ayr, ii. 69,
71 ; iii. 53, 61, 111, 487.
Adamson, David, minister of Fintry, iii.
278, 315, J. (David), 561.
Adamson, John, Principal of the College
of Edinburgh, 52, 121, 129, 133, 136,
146, 147, 252, 363, 463 ; ii. 85, 330 ;
iii. 543-546, 555.
VOL. III.
Adamson, Patrick, Archbishop of St. An
drews, 129, 157 ; iii. 373, 377.
Advocate, Lord, v. Fletcher. Hope. John
ston.
Affleck v. Auchinleck.
Agnew of Lochnaw, Sir Patrick, 425.
Aikenheid, Thomas, commissary, 426.
Ainsworth, Answerth, 12.
Aird, Francis, minister, iii. 144, 322, 382,
384, 434.
Aird, Kobert, minister, iii. 561.
Airds, Viscount of, 337; iii. 61, 97, 100.
Airly, Earl of, 276 ; ii. 60, 74.
Airth, James, clerk of Pittenweem, 147.
Aithie v. Carnegie.
Albemarle, Duke of, v. Monck.
Alexander, John, parson of Hoddam, 426.
Alexander, Sir William, Earl of Sterline,
v. Sterline.
Alexander, William, Lord, 32, 76, 77, 447,
452.
Alford, ii. 302, 304, 419, 423.
Alger, Algiers, iii. 291.
Allen, Francis, goldsmith, ii. 353, 359.
Almond, Amont, Lord, Lieutenant-Gene-
ral, 77, 123, 145, 212, 256, 306, 378,
383-393, passim.— v. Callander, Earl of.
Alliat 0. Elliot.
Alyth, Eliot, iii. 176, 563.
Amisfield v. Charteris of.
Amsterdam, iii. 24 ; Classis, ii. 202.
Amyrault, Amirot, Moses, ii. 265, 324,
342; iii. 101, 311, 324, 369.
Anabaptists, ii. 117, 121, 140, 157, 169,
185, 191, 215, 218, 224, 228, 327, 342,
343, 406 ; iii. 289.
Ancrum, Earl of, 115, 425.
Anderson, George, printer, ii. 404 ; iii.
535.
Anderson of Dowhill, John, iii. 369.
4 F
INDEX OF NAMES.
Anderson, John, preacher, iii. 394.
Anderson, John, writer, 108.
Anderson, William, iii. 363.
Andover, Lord, iii. 72.
Andrews, Dr. L. Bishop of Ely, 1, 2.
Angus, Archibald, Earl of, 14, 50, 123,
379, 389, 440, 458, 4G2 ; ii. 67, 85, 89 ;
iii. 54, 136, 248, 249.
Angus, Forfarshire, ii. 417f, 419, 442 ; iii.
90, 117, 182, 248.
Anjou, Duke of, iii. 446.
Annan, James, minister of Inverness, 369.
Annan, William, minister of Ayr, 19-21,
62, 63, 89, 167, 221, 425.
Annandale, Earl of, 386, 424 ; ii. 67, 77,
314 ; iii. 464.
Anstruther, Sir Robert, ii. 195, 243.
Anstruther, Sir William, ii. 162.
Antinomians, ii. 117, 123, 140, 157, 169,
185, 191, 215, 218, 224, 228, 327, 342,
343, 406.
Antrim, Antrum, Earl of, 72, 92, 193, 194,
196, 206; ii. 73, 74, 80, 105, 116.—
Marquis, 164, 214, 217, 377; iii. 312.
Apollonius, William, minister of Middle-
burgh, ii. 180-190, 193, 197, 202, 205,
218, 226, 239, 240, 246, 265, 288, 315,
322, 324, 327, 365, 371, 387, 398 ; iii.
57/67,101,324.
Apologetick Narration, ii. 129-131, 143,
144, 146, 147, 188, 343.
Apparitions, iii. 360, 436.
Arbuthnot, Robert, Viscount, iii. 35.
Archer, John, ii. 306.
Ard of Kilmound, 472.
Ardincaple v. M'Aulay.
Ardoch v. Stirling,
Areskine v. Erskine,
Argyle, Bishop of, 6, 425 ; iii. 486, v.
Fairley. Fletcher.
Argyle, (Archibald, Earl of), 123, 126,
129-131, 143-147, 152, 155, 157, 170,
171, 175, 192-196, 200, 204, 211, 220,
238, 247, 257-265, 304, 306, 356, 358,
362-368, 376-596, 471, 473, 485, 489 ;
Marquis, ii. 5, 35, 39, 41, 43-47, 53-59,
64, 68-74, 84, 91-96, 128, 164, 176,
217, 225-227, 233, 251, 262-264, 281,
321, 345, 357, 362, 376, 379, 383, 386,
402, 407, 417f,-424f, 441, 447, 471,
473, 478, 485, 510, 516 ; iii. 6, 18, 33-
36, 45, 48, 53, 64, 99, 105-109, 114,
115, 119-122, 125, 128, 133, 136, 140,
160, 167, 171, 249, 250, 256, 259, 288,
361, 387, 404, 418, 422, 430, 443, 447,
465-467, 524, 568.
Argyle, Marchioness of, ii. 319, 362, iii.
447, 465, 466.
Argyle's Regiment, ii. 422.
Argyleshire, ii. 427f ; iii. 97, 255.
Argyle, Synod of, iii. 81.
Arminius, Dr. James, professor at Ley-
den, 114.
Arminianism, 149 ; iii. 304.
Armour, Alexander, 246, 267.
Armour, minister of St. Andrews, 97.
Armstrong, Archie, ii. 125.
Armyne, Sir William, ii. 89, 299, 302.
Arnot, Sir Charles, ii. 418f, 422.
Arnot, Mr. iii. 9.
Arnot, Dr. 387.
Arrowsmith, John, ii. 123, 148, 184.
Arundell, Earl of, 10, 72, 92, 204, 211 ;
Lord High Steward, 315, 317-319.
Ashburnham, John, ii. 66, 244, 364, 368,
370, 373, 375.
Ashe, Simeon, ii. 209, 359, 415 ; iii. 302,
306, 307, 328, 338, 354, 355, 391, 415.
Ashfield, Colonel, iii. 438.
Ashley, Astley, Jacob, ii. 158.
Ashton, Colonel, ii. 65, 138.
Assembly of Divines at Westminster, ii,
80, 89, 99, 101, 102, 104, 107-112, 115
-124, 128-131, 136, 139, 143-149, 158,
164, 176, 184-187, 245, 255-257, 325,
349, 377-379, 390, 393, 397, 400, 478 ;
iii.2, 3, 62, 108, 449-^54, App. ; 532,
536-544, 548— Vide Catechism. Con
fession of Faith. Church Government.
Directory. Ordination. Psalms. Re
monstrance.
Assemblies, Corrupt, 147, 151.
Assembly, General, 1638, at Glasgow, 1>±
95, 98-109, 111-115, 118-175, 184,219,
221,223,294,476; iii. 464.
—1639, at Edinburgh, 221-224.
—1640, at Aberdeen, 231-234, 245-255.
— 1641, at St. Andrews, 358-377; tran
slated to Edinburgh, 360.
—1642, at St. Andrews, ii. 45-54.
—1643, at Edinburgh, ii. 83-97.
—1644, at Edinburgh, ii. 195, 196.
—1645, at Edinburgh, ii. 242-250, 255-2CO.
—1646, at Edinburgh, ii. 384, 397, 398.
—1647, at Edinburgh, iii. 10-15, 19-21.
—1648, at Edinburgh, iii. 50, 52-65.
INDEX OF NAMES.
595
Assembly, General,
—1649, at Edinburgh, iii. 91-97, 521.
—1650, at Edinburgh, iii. 105, 106, 115.
— 1651, at St. Andrews and Dundee, iii.
176-188, 328, 562-566.
—1652, at Edinburgh, iii, 188-194, 562-566.
—1653, at Edinburgh, iii. 225.
Atherton, 318.
Athole, Earl of, ii. 418-419f, 468 ; iii. 117,
250, 288, 366, 471.
Auchinbreck, v. Campbell.
Auchinleck, Afflect, Andrew, minister of
Largo, 136, 366, 472 ; ii. of Dundee,
49, 53 ; iii. 34.
Auchinleck, James, minister at — 153, 172.
Auchinmoutie, Auchmouty, of Gosford,
Sir John, 425.
Auld, Robert, ii. 276.
Auldbar v. Lyon.
Auldearne, Aldearne, ii. 275, 418, 423.
Austin, Samuel, minister of Penpont, iii.
279
Ayr, 173 ; ii. 399 ; iii. 61, 111, 249, 464.
Ayr, Presbytery of, iii. 137, 142, 145, 316.
Ayr, Provost of, iii. 420, 456.
B
BADENOCH, Badzenoch, ii. 418-f-.
Baillie, Lord Forrester, iii ; 367, 455 App.
Baillie of Lamington, Sir William, 123 ;
ii. 417.
Baillie of Letham, Lieutenant^General
William, 212, 256, 270, 355 ; ii. 67,
100, 128, 204, 206, 262, 264, 277, 302,
305, 357, 386, 417-425 ; iii. 95, 367,
455-457 App.
Baillie of Lochend, Sir James, 426.
Baillie, Dr. ii. 124.
Baillie, James, ii. 258.
Baillie, Robert, minister of Kilwinning,
131, 134, 149, 154, 162, 172, 183, 215,
242, 245, 253-255, 264, 267-272, 295,
299, 339, 359, 362, 371, 472, 480, 485.
—Professor of Divinity at Glasgow, n.
51, 52, 55, 76, 86, 88, 93, 99, 161, 198,
24k 250, 254, 255, 258, 279-285, 323,
336 404, 463, 472, 478, 482, 487-498,
516 ; iii. 37-41, 52, 62, 82-88 91-93,
96, 162, 194, 200-220, 222, 236, 242,
266, 279, 287, 296, 321, 336, 362, 369.
—Principal of the University, in. 411,
412, 422, 462, 540, 559, 561.
Baillie, his Translation to Glasgow, 248,
371 ; ii. 2-33, 443-449— ii. 7-33, 37-39,
49, 52.
Baillie, his Family, 246, 268, 269, 278,
299 ; iii. 62, 311, 368, 436, 472, 483.—
his Son Harrie, 109, 110 ; iii. 252, 253.
294, 295, 325, 368, 382, 391, 392.—
his Son Robert, iii. 286, 287, 368, 373,
374.— his Friends, 162, 172; ii. 311,
313, 330, 340 ; iii. 62, 91, 366.
Baillie, his Works, 242, 257 ; ii. 385, 386 ;
iii. 369, 390, 401, 409, 415-417, 421,
449, 478.
Bainton, ii. 492.
Baird, James, advocate, 381.
Baker, John, iii. 553.
Balseus v. Baillie.
Balcanqual, Robert, minister of Tranent.
90, 426, 477, 478, 490.
Balcanqual, Dr. Walter, Dean of Dur
ham, 1, 83, 98, 106, 122, 136, 139, 140,
155, 174, 175, 208, 279, 280, 286, 357,
443-7, 467, 475-491 ; ii. 339, 404, 429-
431, 435-438.
Balcarras, Alexander Earl of, 211 ; ii. 45,
85, 382, 419-424, 514; iii. 35, 98, 117,
119, 13^139, 147, 154, 166, 170, 172,
212, 250-255, 387, 437, 478.
Balcarras, Lady, iii. 212, 387.
Balcarras's Regiment, ii. 419, 419f , 422.
Balcleugh v. Buccleugh.
Balcolmie v. Learmont.
Balfarg v. Beton.
Balfour, Alexander, ii. 472, 473.
Balfour, Sir James, Lord Lyon, ii. 472.
Balfour, Michael, ii. 472.
Balfour, Sir William, 282, 286, 315, 316,
344, 350; ii. 42, 151-153, 155, 156,
158, 227 ; iii. 366.
Balgony, Alexander Lord, iii. 367.
Ballantyne, Major, 73.
Balmerino, John Lord, 35, 38, 39, 43, 48,
123, 125, 136, 147, 159, 169, 190, 355,
375, 381, 384, 386, 390, 429, 430, 465,
472; ii. 73, 85, 89, 128, 217, 324, 430,
441, 442, 473, 515 ; iii. 33, 54.
Balmerino, Master of, ii. 506.
Balmore, Bamor, iii. 394.
Balvaird, Andrew Lord, ii. 91. 472, 473.
Bamfield, Col. iii. 105, 108.
Band and Banders, 374, 375 ; ii. 34, 105,
141, 262.
Banff v. Ogilvie.
Banks, Chief Justice Common Pleas, 292.
596
INDEX OF NAMES.
Barclay of Towie, 123, 432.
Barclay, Major David, iii. 430.
Barclay, Colonel Harry, ii. 419f.
Barclay, Robert, provost of Irvine, 63, 104,
136, 171, 365, 366, 383, 473 ; ii. 42, 45,
50, 59, 66, 89, 106, 217, 241, 251, 323,
357,487; iii. 136.
Barenfrew, Barranthrow v. Renfrew.
Barksted, Col. iii. 427.
Barnes, James, merchant, 484.
Barnes, David, preacher, 363.
Barnes, George, iii. 286.
Barnes, James, iii. 363.
Barnes, John, dean of gild, Glasgow,
229; ii. 12; iii. 286, 420.
Baronius, Cardinal, 358.
Barr, James, iii. 318.
Barr, Robert, ii. 289, 290.
Barrington, Sir Thomas, 341.
Barron, Dr. John, St. Andrews, 66, 93,
97, 144, 477.
Barron, Dr. Robert, Aberdeen, 135, 163,
221,425.
Barton, William, iii. 532, 540, 552-554.
Barwick, Dr. ii. 398.
Bastwick, Bastock, Dr. John, 273, 277,
283, 429 ; ii. 279.
Bathgate, Parish of, iii. 245, 248.
Bavaria, Bavier, Duke of, ii. 114, 388;
iii. 10, 32.
Baxter, Richard, iii. 303, 307, 324, 369,
391, 400, 442, 484.
Baylie v. Baillie.
Beak, Major, iii. 362.
Beale, Beele, Dr. V ice-Chancellor, Cam
bridge, 225 ; ii. 148.
Bedford, Earl of, 292. 304, 305 ; ii. 56, 99,
126, 178.
Bedlay v. Roberton.
Beere, Colonel, ii. 226.
Belhaven, (Sir R. Douglas of Spott), Lord,
77, 106, 107, 123.
Belhaven, Hamilton, Lord, iii. 435, 436.
Bell, James, provost of Glasgow, iii. 286.
Bell, John, provost of Glasgow, iii. 115,
163, 363, 372, 411, 419, 456, 469.
Bell, John, minister of Glasgow, 21, 37,
63, 104, 106, 108, 122, 124, 126, 127,
170,426,481; ii.5, 448.
Bell, John, minister of Stevenston, 13, 14,
94, 104, 232, 246, 267, 289, 473 ; ii. 10,
161 ; iii. 136, 182, 236, 279, 317, 545,
561.
Bell, John, son of the preceding, 237, 238.
Bell, John, junior, minister of Glasgow,
63, 88, 104, 133.
Bell, John, ii. 219 ; iii. 366.
Bell, Patrick, provost of Glasgow, 8, 105,
106, 108, 147, 171, 234, 248 ; ii. 3.
Bell, Patrick, merchant, Glasgow, son of
the preceding, iii. 449, 451.
Bell, Robert, minister of Dairy, (Ayrshire),
13, 473, 448.
Bellasis, Lord, iii. 367.
Bellievre, Monsieur, iii. 388.
Belsches of Tofts, Sir Alexander, 307.
Bellenden, Adam, Bishop of Dumblane and
Aberdeen, 161, 169, 288, 421, 422, 425,
430-438 ; ii. 92, 474.
Bennet, David, minister of Stirling, iii. 123,
146, 283.
Bennet, George, minister, iii. 257, 547-
Bennet, William, parson of Ancrum, 426.
Bennet, William, minister of Edinburgh,
370, 491.
Berkshire, Earl of, 343.
Berne (an Irishman) 335.
Berridale, Berridaill, Master of, 492.
Berwick, Barwick, ii. 100, 322, 43 9,441,
463 ; iii. 37, 38, 51, 439.
Best, Paul, ii. 306.
Beton of Balfarg, ii. 473.
Beton of Creich, David, iii. 54.
Beverlie, minister of Leinzie, iii. 217.
Beverwert, Lord, iii. 73.
Beza, Theodore, ii. 265, 277-
Binnie, John, ii. 46.
Binning, Binnie, Hugh, minister of Govan,
iii. 124, 195, 200, 258, 434.
Binning v. Haddington.
Birkenbog v. Abercrombie.
Birnie, Robert, minister of Lanark, iii.
420.
Biron, Byron, Lord, iii. 51, 88.
Bishops, 18, 74, 75, 77, 87, 98, 129-139,
217, 221, 274, 288, v. Complaint. De-
clinature. Excommunication.
Bishoptoune v. Brisbane.
Black, Blackie, Nicholas, minister of
Roberton, iii. 394, 553.
Blackburn, Peter, Bishop of Aberdeen,
iii. 402.
Blackball, Andrew, minister of Aberlady,
363, 472; ii. 49.
Blackball v. Stewart of.
Blair of A dam ton, 473.
INDEX OF NAMES.
597
Blair of Blair, senior, 14, 63, 171, 195,
382; iii. 136, 464.
Blair of Bogtown, Adam, iii. 136.
Blair, Adam, clerk, ii. 474, 475.
Blair, Sir Adam, iii. 409.
Blair, Alexander, 128, 129 ; iii. 53.
Blair, Alexander, minister of Galston, iii.
487.
Blair, Colonel, 256.
Blair, Hugh, minister of Eastwood, 368 ;
ii. 5, 39, 158, of Glasgow, 173 ; iii. 142,
150, 164, 206, 243, 347, 368, 468, 486,
ool.
Blair, James, brother of Robert, 28.
Blair, James, minister of Portpatrick, 87 :
iii. 140.
Blair, James, minister of Cathcart, iii. 394.
Blair, John, minister of Bothkennar, iii.
257, 284.
Blair, Robert, minister, 31, 62; of Ayr,
89, 106, 146, 171, 173 ; of St. Andrews,
250, 269-273, 284, 295, 299, 303, 339,
355, 362, 365-367, 375, 394 ; ii. 11, 22,
25-28, 31, 32, 42, 45-50, 70, 76, 83, 106,
159, 163, 185, 208, 270, 303, 382, 385,
389, 406, 414, 516 ; iii. 8, 20, 33, 39,
52, 55, 57, 62, 91. 106, 110-116, 133,
136, 140, 149, 167, 173-184, 188, 189,
197, 199, 201, 212, 231, 238, 241, 248,
253, 262, 279-281, 296, 363, 375, 396,
402, 468, 487, 544, 556-563.
Blair, Routmaster, ii. 422.
Blair, William, minister, iii. 561.
Blake, Admiral, iii. 291, 301, 370.
Blantyre, Lord 152 ; ii. 4.
Bodius v. Boyd.
Boigs, Bogs, Laird of, iii. 246.
Bonar, Boner, Bonner, James, minister of
Maybole, 19, 82, 106, 121, 127, 129,
130, 136, 171, 254, 355, 361, 363, 364 ;
ii. 45, 46, 52, 84, 95, 505 ; iii. 136, 561.
Bonar, Sir John, 263.
Bond, Master of the Savoy, iii. 552.
Book of Canons, 4, 28, 119, 120, 147, 152,
428, 430, 436-440, 471.
Book of Common Prayer v. Service-Book.
Book of Ordination, 4, 119, 147, 152.
Booth, Sir George, iii. 428, 429, 437.
'Boroubrig, Boroughbridge, 271.
Borthwick, Colonel, iii. 317.
Borthwick, Eleazar, minister of Leuchars,
98, 150, 250, 295, 339; ii. 42, 45.
Boswell, Sir William, at the Hague,
Bothwell, Earl of, 37.
Bouillon, Due de, ii. 44.
Bovius, Bowie, Walter, iii. 23, 101, 104,
449 451
Boyd, 'Lord, 63, 108, 124, 137, 178, 195,
201, 211, 262, 481 ; ii. 363, 468.
Boyd of Trochrig, Robert, ii. 14 ; iii. 184,
226, 402.
Boyd, Mark Alexander, iii. 403.
Boyd, Stephen, Stevin. 383, 385.
Boyd, Thomas, iii. 276.
Boyd, Zachary, minister, Glasgow, 88, 104,
106, 426 ; ii. 86, 87, 173, 196, 271, 295,
393 ; iii. 3, 42, 119, 142, 194, 212, 238,
239, 241, 285, 312, 432, 535, 540, 543-
545, 554, 555, 561.
Boyn v. Aboyne.
Braco v. Graham.
Bradshaw, iii. 443.
Bramhall, Bramble, Bishop of Derry, 206,
318, 319, 339 ; iii. 79, 87, 90, 103, 400,
444, 470.
Bray, Dr. 347.
Braynes, ii. 290.
Brechin, Bishop of, v. Whiteford.
Breda, iii. 102, 114, 115, 118, 439, 484,
523-5.
Brederod, in Dutch Embassy, 288, 294.
Brentford, Brainford, ii. 56.
Brereton, Sir William, ii. 112, 118, 131,
146, 272, 276.
Brian, Col. iii. 255.
Bridge, Bridges, William, ii. 110, 111,
145, 199.
Brisbane of Bishopton, John, 104, 472 ;
iii. 136.
Brisbane, H. minister, ii. 513.
Brisbane, W. minister of Erskine, 104, 426.
Brisbane, Matthew, minister of Kill oil, in.
68,104; iii. 43.
Bristol, Earl of, 262, 271, 289, 300, 304-
307, 313, 329, 341 ; ii. 125, 137, 139.
Brodick, Brodwick Castle, 196.
Brodie of Brodie, Alexander, ii. 418 ; iii.
173, 234, 507-521, 547.
Broghill, Roger Boyle, Lord, iii. 276, 295,
296, 298, 309, 312, 315-19, 321, 322,
325, 330, 343, 350, 352, 359, 362, 365,
439, 567.
Brooke, Lord, 199, 275, 351 ; ii. 56, 63.
Brooke, Sir Basil, 295 ; ii. 132, 133.
Broomhall, Robert Bruce Lord, iii. 136.
Browne, M. P. ii. 487.
598
INDEX OF NAMES.
Browne, James, 69.
Browne, James, printer at the Hague, iii.
128, 129.
Browne, John, regent at Edinburgh, 64,
91, 110.
Browne, Major, ii. 201, 226.
Brown, Robert, the sectary, ii. 184, 193.
Brown, Robert, minister in Annandale, ii.
48,275.
Brown, Thomas, baillie of Glasgow, iii. 435.
Brownism, 54, 76, v. Novations.
Bruce, Lord, iii. 539.
Bruce, Doctor Andrew, 97, 425 ; iii. 6.
Bruce, Crowner, 206 ; ii. 132.
Bruce, George, burgess of Culross, 472.
Bruce, Sir Harrie, 72.
Bruce, James, minister of Kingsbarns, 365,
449 : ii. 49.
Bruce, John, preacher, ii. 49, 50.
Bruce, Thomas, provost of Stirling, 171.
Bruce of Stanhouse, Sir William, iii. 248,
257, 258.
Bryson, Robert, bookseller, 441.
Buccleugh, Countess of, iii. 366, 438.
Buccleugh, Francis, Earl of, 85.
Buchan, James Earl of, iii. 117.
Hurhan. Scoutmaster, iii. 110.
Buchanan, Captain, 212.
Buchanan, David, ii. 179, 197, 252, 253,
276, 367 ; iii. 136.
Buchanan, George, iii, 402.
Buchanan, George, minister of Kirkpatrick
juxta, 426.
Buchanan, James, minister, iii. 561.
Buchanan, Walter, minister of Ceres, 146.
Buchanans, 482.
Buckhurst, Lord, iii, 526.
Buckingham, Duchess of, 333 ; ii. 132.
Buckingham, Duke of, ii. 315.
Bunce, Bunch, alderman, 101.
Buntein, Major, iii. 439 — (Colonel Wil
liam) iii. 457, App.
Burgess, Dr. Cornelius, 302, 308 ; ii. 89,
99, 108, 121, 122, 134, 198, 199, 346,
381, 382, 411, 415 ; iii. 304, 307, 391,
537, 539, 540.
Burleigh, Burghlie, Robert, Lord, 123,
137, 377, 382, 385, 386 ; ii. 45, 420f,
424 ; iii. 35, 98.
Burnc, John, minister, iii. 561.
Burnet of Leys, 492.
Burnet, Andrew, regent, at Glasgow, iii.
242, 313, 372.
Burnet, James, minister of Lauder, 426.
Burroughs, Jeremiah, 303 ; ii. 110, 111,
145, 279.
Burrows, iii. 98, 99.
Burton, Henry, 273, 277; ii. 132, 192,
279, 296, 299.
Butter, James, stationer, 305.
Buxtorff, Buxtorfie, ii. 290.
Byfield,Adoniram,ii. 108,109; iii.539,552.
0
CABELJAVIUS, Cabellarius, ii. 311,371.
Caithness, Bishop of, v. Abernethy. Forbes.
Calamy, Edmund, ii. 148, 415 ; iii. 224
228, 285, 307, 328, 331, 338, 391, 442,
484, 553.
Calderwood, David, minister, 137, 139
155, 158, 362, 363, 369, 372, 486 ; ii.
40, 70, 95, 182, 260, 373, 384, 505,
510 ; iii. 14, 19-21, 33, 36, 55, 59, 64,
65, 94, 95, 530— his History, ii. 374,
384 ; iii. 60.
Calderwood, Thomas, iii. 409.
Caldwell of Caldwell, William, 382.
Cales, Cadiz, iii. 291.
Calais, Calice, iii. 19.
Calandrin, Callendrin, ii. 186, 226.
Callander, Earl of, (Vide Almond, Lord,)
ii. 67, 68, 100, 176, 181, 185, 188, 191,
196, 199, 204, 211, 216, 217, 226, 227,
262, 345, 357, 417f-468; iii. 32,38,
40, 45, 48-51, 73, 81, 95, 101, 127, 410,
464, 486, (457, App.)
Calvert, Giles, stationer, ii. 404.
Calvert, Henry, minister of Paisley, iii. 425.
Cambridge, University of, ii. 130, 148,
393.
Cambridge, Charles Duke of, iii. 445.
Cameron, Cambron, Archibald, 482; iii.
415.
Cameron, Evan, minister, iii. 544.
Cameron, (John) Principal of the College
of Glasgow, 8, 53, 188 ; ii. 251 ; iii. 402,
415.
Campbell, Lord Neil, iii. 465.
Campbell of Ardkinlas, 425 ; iii. 465.
Campbell of Auchinbreck, Sir Duncan.
425 ; ii. 263.
Campbell, John, younger of Caddell, 425.
Campbell of Cessnock, Sir Hew, ni. 98.
Campbell of Lawers, Colin, 147.
INDEX OF NAMES.
599
Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel, ii. 422.
Campbell, (a remonstrator,) iii. 316.
Campbell, Colin, minister of Dundee, 425.
Campbell, Dougall, minister of Knapdaill,
426.
Campbell, George, afterwards minister of
Dumfries, and Edinburgh, iii. 383.
Campbell, George, sheriff-depute of Argyle,
iii. 465.
Campbell, James, iii. 141.
Campbell, John, iii. 436.
Campbell, Neil, Bishop of the Isles, 164.
Campbells, 70, 82, 199 ; ii. 74.
Camphire, Campvere, ii. 169 ; iii. 46.
Canne, John, minister in Amsterdam, 113.
Cant, Andrew, senior, minister of Alford,
Pitsligo, 85, 88, 96, 121, 141, 146, 154.
— Aberdeen, 172. — Newbottle, 248,
255, 257, 362, 364, 368, 373, 472; ii.
45, 46, 50, 51, 469, 516 ; iii. 39, 52, 53,
61, 62, 91, 110, 123, 217, 219, 242,
364, 365, 447, 563.
Cant, Andrew, junior, minister of Libber-
ton, iii. 365, 447.
Canterbury, Archbishop of, v. Laud.
Canterstein, a Swede, iii. 524.
Capell, Lord, ii. 112.
Caprington v. Cunningham.
Carden v. Stirling.
Carmichael, Lord, 198.
Carmichael Daniel, ii. 372, 381.
Carmichael, Sir Daniel, Treasurer-Depute,
ii. 273; iii. 24, 155,547.
Carmichael, Sir James, Treasurer-Depute,
39, 201, 390, 396, 425,452,458,462,484.
Carnegie, Lord, v. Southesk, 126, 132.
Carnegie of Aithie, 144.
Carnegie of Lour, 375.
Carnegie, D., ii, 468.
Carnwath, Earl of, ii. 67, 75, 77, 78, 80.
Carse, Alexander, minister of Polwart, 151,
159, 487.
Carsse, Dr., 77.
Carstares, Carstairs, John, minister of
Glasgow, 120, 141, 143, 144, 162, 165,
195, 199, 200, 249, 257, 279, 280, 297,
313, 322, 353, 383, 434, 487.
Carter, Thomas, ii. 110.
Cary, John, ii. 492, 495, 498.
Caryl, Joseph, ii. 110, 145 ; iii. 354, 438,
552.
Casaubon, Isaac, 358.
Case, Thomas, minister, ii. 102.
Cassillis, John Earl of, 53, 84, 91, 123,
137, 173, 189, 201, 211, 219, 266, 360,
362, 383, 489 ; ii. 42, 45, 46, 55, 85,
96, 419f; iii. 35, 48, 54, 61, 86, 88,
91, 98, 99, 101, 106, 112, 116, 359,
414, 420, 443, 446, 463, 464, 507-521.
CassilhVs Regiment, ii. 418, 419.
Castell, Dr. Edmund, iii. 309.
Castellaw, William, minister of Stewarton,
19, 94 ; iii. 561.
Castlehaven, Earl of, 324 ; iii. 233, 238.
Castlemilk v. Stewart.
Catechism, ii. 232, 242, 248, 266, 272,
306, 336, 348, 79-88, 404 ; iii. 2, 165, 9.
Cathcart, parish of, iii. 193, 215.
Cathcart, Hew, 259.
Catherwod v. Calderwood.
Cavers v. Douglas.
Cesnock v. Campbell.
Challoner, Thomas, ii. 511.
Chancellor (Lord) of Scotland, v. Glen-
cairn, Loudoun. Spottiswood.
Chapell-Eoyal, 424, 428-438-441, 470.
Charenton, Charrantone, iii. 174.
Charles I, 1-19, 33, 39, 47-51, 117, 174,
215, 245, 264, 301, 385-400, 421, 424,
429, 430, 440, 443, 448, 479 ; ii. 3, 7,
9, 56, 132, 289, 360, 370, 396, 472 ; iii.
4, 9, 17, 32, 39, 63, 105, 106, 114, 409,
530-532, et passim.
Charles II. Prince of Wales, ii. 138, 297,
317, 328, 344; iii. 6, 41, 54.— King, iii.
66, 69, 72, 8490, 100, 137, 151, 174,
292, 296, 305, 321, 358, 360, 387, 400,
406, 410, 439, 441, 442, 448, 512-520,
524, et passim.
Charteris, Thomas, minister of Stenhouse,
iii. 187, 322, 323.
Charteris, Henry, printer, iii. 529.
Charteris of Amisfield, Sir John, 425 ; ii.
470.
Cheisly of Kerswell, Sir John, 472 ; ii. 138,
370, 382, 484; iii. 14, 24, 32, 97-100,
111, 114, 118, 173, 186, 187, 296, 298,
393, 401, 446, 507, 547, 567.
Cholmondeley, Chomley, ii. 57.
Churches, Foreign, ii. 115, 117, 128, 169,
174, 179, 180, 184, 186.
Church-Government, 273-275, 280, v.
Episcopacy ; ii. 81, 104, 131, 139, 145-
148, 245, 248-250, 299, 306, 325, 328,
333-337, 341, 346, 349, 361, 378, 416 ;
iii. 1, 11, 59, passim.
600
INDEX OF NAMES.
Church-Registers, 128, 129, 136, 138,
147; in. 137,356.
Clandonald, Clan Ronald, 193, 194.
Olapperton, John, minister of Yetholm,
373.
Clare, Clair, Earl of, 327, 342, 347; ii.
99, 178.
Clarendon, Earl of, v. Hyde.
Clargis, Dr. iii. 438.
Classes, v. Act of,
Clavering, Colonel, ii. 215, 216, 224.
Clerk, Clarke, Samuel, minister of St. Ben-
nets Fink, London, ii. 359 ; iii. 226,415.
Clerkington, Lord, v. Scot.
Cloberry, Colonel, iii. 438.
Clotworthy, Sir John, 273, 318, 334, 337,
338 ; ii. 141, 155 ; iii. 312.
Clotworthy, Lady, iii. 295.
Clydesdale, Cliddisdaill, 196, 201 ; ii. 422f ;
iii. 48, 49, 111, 112, 255.
Clyst, (an Englishman,) 429.
Cobbet, Colonel, iii. 438.
Cobroun v. Cockburn.
Cochrane of Cowden, Sir William, 84;
ii. 310 ; iii. 35. Lord Cochrane, 84, 95,
322, 420, 456.
Cochrane, Colonel John, 190, 260, 383,
392; ii. 9, 310.
Cochrane, John, minister, iii. 561.
Cochrane, James, baillie, Edinburgh, 37,
44, 46, 123, 136, 147.
Cockburne of Langton, Sir William, 385.
Cockburn, William, minister of Kirk-
michael, ii. 69 ; iii. 144, 236, 278.
Colines, John, minister of Campsie, 370.
Colkittoch, (Macdonald), ii. 74, 217, 270,
499 ; iii. 10.
Colman, Thomas, minister of Bilton, ii.
306, 360.
Cologne, Cullen, Elector of, ii. 9.
Colquhoun of Lusse, Sir John, iii. 136,
420, 456.
Colquhoun, Matthew, iii. 437.
Colvert v. Calvert.
Colville, Colvin, Dr. Alexander, 360 ; iii.
61, 96, 544.
Colville, Alexander, Justice Depute, iii.
466.
Colville, Patrick, minister of Beith, iii.
136, 143, 181, 200, 210, 219, 236, 336,
393, 420, 456, 561.
Colville, Samuel, iii. 244.
Colville, William, of Cromy, 190.
Colville, William, minister of Cramond,
136, 362, of Edinburgh ; ii.85,463; iii.
19-21, 34, 41, 63, 64, 92, 96, 105, 184,
284, 468, 522, 545.
Commissary of Glasgow v. Fleming. Lock-
hart.
Commission of Assembly, ii. 54, 58, 59, 69,
75, 80, 97, 104, 406, 481 ; iii. 5, 47, 57,
64, 65, 81, 95, 106, 107, 109, 111, 120,
122, 126, 131, 134, 141, 168, 174, 458
App. 461, 463, 511.
Commission of Assembly, 1650 ; iii. 297-
300, 305, 324.
Commission, The High, 280, 282.
Commission, The High, in Scotland, 16,
147, 153, 424.
Commissioners, Scotish, to England, 262,
269, 305-307 ; ii. 41-43, 60, 63-68, et
passim.
Commissioners from the General Assembly
to the Assembly of Divines at West
minster, 41-43, 55, 96.
Commissioners from the English Parlia
ment, ii. 88.
Committee of the Estates in Scotland, iii.
Ill, 116-168, 120, 122, 129, 141, 443,
446, et passim.
Committee of both Kingdoms, ii. 141, 142,
154, 172, 178, 187, 199, 202, 221, 226,
238, 294, 341, 415.
Committee of Lords for religion, 308, 313.
Complaint andDeclinature against Bishops,
35-37, 39, 43-46, 51, 125, 126, 129,
137, 147-167.
Comray v. Cumbra.
Cone, Monsieur, 199, 412.
Conference at Worcester House, iii. 485.
Confession of Faith, in 1560, 124.
Confession of Faith, v. Covenant, (The
National,)
Confession of Faith, The Westminster,
ii. 232, 242, 248, 266, 272, 306, 325,
326, 328, 336, 344, 348, 349, 388, 397,
400, 401, 403-6, 411, 415 ; et passim,
iii. 2, 11, 20.
Conservators of Peace, ii. 57-60, 65, 78.
Constable of Dundee, v. Scrimgeour.
Constable of Edinburgh Castle, v. Lind
say, 194, 195.
Constable of Scotland v. Errol, Earl of.
Constable of the Threve, 424.
Convention of Estates, ii. 68, 80, 104,
164.
INDEX OF NAMES.
601
Convocation, 280, 282, 303.
Conway, Lord, 259, 341 ; ii. 99, 178.
Cooper, Mr. minister, iii. 355.
Cooper, Colonel, governor of Glasgow, iii.
246, 259.
Cooke, English secretary, 72.
Coote, Couts, Cutts, Sir Charles, iii. 100,
439.
Cork, Earl of, 318, 322, 323, 324, 331.
Corbet, John, minister, 162, 189, 243.
Corbet, M. P. ii. 80, 81 ; iii. 7.
Coronation, iii. 107, 127, 128.
Cotterill, Lieut.-Col. iii. 225.
Cottington, Lord, 286, 332, 333, 342, 343,
345 ; ii. 125, 137, 139, 494 ; iii. 72, 88.
Cotton, John, ii. 190, 240 ; iii. 227, 237,
285, 303.
Cousins, Coosins, Dr. 286, 294 ; ii. 148 ;
iii. 444.
Covenant, The National, 52, 62, 84, 88, 96,
97, 111, 143, 206, 239-241, 247, 351,
386; ii. 44, 53, 454^460, 468, et passim.
Covenant, The King's, 105-107, 111, 115,
118-120, 142, 155.
Covenant, The Solemn League and, 273; ii.
90, 91, 95, 98-103, 121, 132, 141, 220, 253,
261, 335, 352, 370, 371, 406-411, 436,
438 ; iii. 17, 25-29, 33-40, 42, 54, 66,
70-78, 83-89, 98, 108, 112, 113, 116,
118, 174, 198, 225, 302, 306, 308, 326,
336-340, 350, 380, 391-393, 404-408,
414, 441, 444-448, 464, 470, 453 App.
458-460 App. 505-523, passim.
Cowper, James Lord, ii. 85.
Cowper, William, Bishop of Galloway, 443.
Cragingelt, John, minister of Alloway,
472.
Craig, John, minister of Edinburgh, iii.527.
Craig, Thomas, minister of Largs, 13,
245.
Craighall, Lord v. Hope, Sir John,
Craigends v. Cunningham,
Craigie v. Wallace of.
Cranford, James, minister, London, ii. 278-
285, 303, 310-316, 333, 494 ; iii. 309.
Cranston, Lord, iii. 36,
Cranstoun, Robert, minister of.Scoonie,
472.
Crawford and Lindsay, John, Earl of,
Treasurer, ii. 386, 418-422f, 424f,
443 ; iii. 33-38, 45, 60, 64, 235, 290,
317, 326, 405, 413, 416, 420, 421, 441,
443, 446, 471, 485, 486, v. Lindsay.
VOL. III.
Crawford, Ludowick Earl of, 391-393 ; ii.
56, 113, 118, 119, 314.
Crawford, George, minister of Kilbride,
13.
Crawford, Gen.-Major, ii. 151, 195, 200,
218, 226, 229, 230, 232, 235, 501.
Crawford of Kilburnie, iii. 463.
Crawford, Thomas, iii. 543, 545.
Creich, Creigh, 0, Beton.
Creichton, Crichton, Lord, 124.
Creichton, John, minister of Paisley, 10, 12,
24, 29, 88, 94, 97, 98, 104, 172; ii. 340 ;
iii. 434, 524.
Crew, Crux, John, 308 ; ii. 238, 281, 487,
488 ; iii. 441.
Cromwell, Colonel, ii. 409.
Cromwell, Henry, iii. 290, 428.
Cromwell, Oliver, ii. 151, 153. — Major-
General, 203, 209, 218, 226, 229-235,
244-247, 276-280, 286, 287, 294, 317,
359, 365-369, 376, 425, 501 ; iii. 7, 16,
19, 32, 46, 51, 60, 65, 68, 97, 100-
107, 112M20 125-129, 137-140, 148,
160-168, 172, 178.— Lord Protector,
244, 251 253, 256, 281, 289-291, 302,
305, 309, 312, 317, 324, 325, 328, 331,
333, 337, 339, 343, 347, 350, 353-362,
370, 387, 406, 412, 425, 443, 473, 456
App, 553, 567, et passim.
Cromwell, Richard, Protector, iii. 397, 399,
425-431.
Crook, Andrew, stationer, ii. 404; iii. 306.
Crooks, William, minister of Kilmaurs, iii.
561.
Crosbie, Laird of, iii. 122.
Crosbie, Sir Pierce, 318, 324.
Cross Petition, ii. 59, 63, 69, 76, 78, 427f.
Crux t>. Crew, Crooks.
Culen v. Cologne, 3.
Culpepper, Lord, iii. 72, 88, 442.
Culross, Provost of, 44.
Cumberland, Duke of, v. Prince Rupert.
Cumbernauld, Leinzie, ii. 262.
Cuming, Cummin, Robert, iii. 398.
Cunningham of Aitket, 372, 373, 473.
Cunningham of Auchinharvie, Dr. Robert,
iii. 373.
Cunningham of Caprington, Sir William,
14, 425.
Cunningham of Craigends, iii. 420, 456.
Cunningham of Cunninghamhead, 13, 14,
44, 195, 245, 267, 382, 473; iii. 136,
420, 456.
4F
602
INDEX OF NAMES.
Cunningham of Robertland, ii. 138.
Cunningham, Adam, commissar, 426.
Cunningham, Alexander, merchant, Craill,
ii. 472, 474.
Cunningham, Alexander, 27, 225-228 ; ii.
219.
Cunningham, Gabriel, provost of Glasgow,
230, 233 ; ii. 5 ; iii. 420.
Cunningham, Gabriel, minister of Kilsyth,
iii. 136, 142, 194, 202, 456, 561.
Cunningham, James, minister of Cumnock,
44, 46, 121, 166 ; ii. 8.
Cunningham, James, ii. 138.
Cunningham, Robert, Kinghorn, 137, 144.
Cunningham, Thomas, conservator, ii. 163,
169, 175, 186, 200, 202, 218, 239, 265,
316, 322, 327, 387 ; iii. 71, 73, 83,
91.
Cunningham, William, 62, 228; ii. 28,
116 ; iii. 71.
Currie, John, iii. 547.
Cutts v. Coote.
D.
Daek, Dawick, 79.
Dalgleish, David, minister of Coupar, 136,
139, «154, 166, 361, 363, 371, 472; ii.
46, 47.
Dalgleish, Robert, ii. 92 — Church-trea
surer, 301.
Dalgleish, William, agent for the Church,
175, 387 ; ii. 330.
Dalhousie, William, Earl of, 211, ii. 85,
226,443.
Dalrymple (of Stair), Sir James, regent
in the College of Glasgow, ii. 37, iii. 464.
Dalzell, John, minister, iii. 547.
Dalzell, Lord, 123, 194, 425.
Dane, Mr. ii. 288.
Darley, Mr. ii. 89.
Darney v. Dorney.
Darnton, Darlington, 269.
Daniel, Roger, printer, iii. 552.
Davis of Derry, iii. 470.
Davison, Dr. W., ii. 392.
Dealing, Deering, Edward, ii. 56.
Declaration of Assembly, 1647, iii. 20, of
Commission, 34, 37, 41.
Declaration of Assembly, 1648, 57, 65,—
to be subscribed by Engagers, iii. 93,
95, 522.
Declaration by the Resolutionists, 1658,
iii. 362, 386.
Declaration against Cross petition, ii. 59,
63, 69, 76.
Declaration, King Charles's Large, (v.
Balcanqual, 140, 208; ii. 429-431.
Declaration, King James's, (by Adamson),
ii. 371, 373.
Declinature and Protestation by Bishops,
126, 129, 135-139, &c.
Defensive Arms, 53, 81, 116, 188-190.
Denbigh, Earl of, ii. 191, 194, 241, 3<«.
Denmark, King of, 190, 191.
Denniston, Archibald, minister of Campsie,
iii. 142, 194, 202, 278, 313.
Denwitt, Thomas, 327.
Derby, Earl of, ii. 57, 77; iii. 429.
Derry, Bishop of, v. Bramhall.
Desborow, Disbrough, Colonel, iii. 318,
427, 440.
Deskford, Ogilvie, Lord, 447, 448.
Devert, Donavert ? ii. 82.
Devonish, ii. 137.
Devonshire, Earl of, 40.
Devonshire, Lady, 40, 354.
Dick, v. Dickson.
Dick, William, merchant, provost of Edin
burgh, 192, 489.
Dickson of Boughtrig, 472.
Dickson, Alexander, ii. 336 ; iii. 210,
365, 366, 405, 415.
Dickson, Dick, David, minister of Irvine,
Professor of Divinity in Glasgow and
Edinburgh, 23, 32, 35, 42, 52, 63, 82,
86, 93, 96, 102, 106, 108, 121, 125, 127,
132-136, 144, 146, 149, 154, 170, 171,
178-180, 200, 239, 243, 250, 255, 359,
362-368, 373, 472, 481, 486; ii. 3-5, 8,
10, 14rl8, 21-24, 27, 30, 31, 37, 40, 46-
50, 61, 70, 75, 83-89, 94-98, 116, 155,
161, 171, 176, 179, 189, 195, 211, 229,
270, 276, 288, 295, 321, 336, 340, 347.
356, 360, 390, 392, 397, 400, 404, 414,
415,440,441, 472, 513; iii. 9, 32, 37, 52,
55, 59, 71, 80, 91, 96, 108, 110, 115.
126-128, 134, 137, 140, 145, 154, 168,
173, 178, 184, 188-193, 196, 200, 209-
212, 215-220, 225, 248, 262, 279-281,
286, 295, 303, 311, 315, 321, 343, 352.
355, 361, 365, 402, 404, 414-421, 465
468, 556, 559, 563, passim.
Dickson, John, ii. 207, 212, 219, 231
398.
INDEX OF NAMES.
603
Dickson, John, minister of Rutherglen, iii
314, 447, 467.
Dickson, Margaret, ii. 398 ; iii. 405,
415.
Digby, Lord, 257, 302, 307, 308, 325, 340;
ii. 42, 125, 132, 133, 137, 139, 244, 278-
285, 288, 303, 319, 320, 323, 487-498.
Digby, Sir Kenelm, 295.
Dillon, Lord, 327, 331.
Diodati, John, ii. 188, 229, 251, 271.
Directory, ii. 117, 148, 162, 187, 195, 204,
213, 224, 232, 240, 242, 244, 248, 250,
261,291,377,398; iii. 1, 11.
Discipline, Books of, iii. 94.
Dishington, Sir Thomas, 377 ; ii. 243.
Doctor, or Teacher, his office, ii. 110.
Don, John, iii. 481.
Donald, David, (Baillie's nephew,) iii. 91.
Donaldson, Thomas, minister of Smail-
holme, iii. 547.
Doolittle, Thomas, minister, London, iii.
553.
Dorney, Major, iii. 349, 361.
Dorpe, Admiral, ii. 328, 347.
Dorset, Earl of, 352 ; ii. 497.
Douglasses, 70 ; iii. 387,
Douglas, Marquis of, 65, 70, 71, 194, 196,
201 ; ii. 314 ; iii. 248, 249.
Douglas, Sir Archibald, 261.
Douglas, Sir Joseph, iii. 66, 69 ; 71, 83,
458, App.
Douglas, Sir Robert, ii. 319.
Douglas of Cavers, Sir William, sheriff of
Teviotdale, 123, 136, 147, 216, 224, 269,
397, 425.
Douglas, Colonel, iii. 457, App.
Douglas, Dr. John, 425.
Douglas, John. iii. 547, 548.
Douglas, Robert, minister of Kirkaldy, 85,
136, 172,— of Edinburgh, 480 ; ii. 45-
55, 69, 84, 88, 96, 102, 128, 161, 186,
255, 331, 427f, 444, 446, 482-487, 500,
512-516 ; iii. 6, 20, 33, 37, 52, 62, 80,
82, 88-99, 105, 109, 115, 118, 120-128,
133, 136, 137, 140-147, 153-155, 165-
170, 174, 178, 179, 198, 215-227, 248,
253, 262, 276, 279, 281, 295, 296, 307,
315, 334, 335, 343, 352, 355, 361, 365,
375, 387, 389, 392, 395, 398, 414, 415,
420, 431, 448, 465, 468, 485, 462 App.
512, 522, 544, 545, 556-560, et passim.
Douglas, Samuel, minister, iii. 55.
Douglas, Captain William, iii. 457 App.
Douglas, William, minister of Forgue, 492;
professor in Aberdeen, iii. 279, 402
Doune, Lord, 51, 458, 462.
Dowgaire v. Dugar.
Downie, William, clerk, iii. 249.
Downing, Dr. 286.
Drelingcourt, Drillingcourt, ii. 197.
Drumlanrick, Lord, 124.
Drummond, Lord, 124, 247, 262 ; ii. 233,
468, 469.
Drummond of Riccarton, Sir William, 266
269, 384, 397.
Drummond, Sir John, ii. 225, 262.
Drummond, Sir Patrick, conservator, 71
87,88; ii. 169; iii. 457, 458.
Duchal, Dughall, v. Porterfield.
Dudhope, James, Viscount of, ii. 47, 49,
85 ; iii. 117, v. Scrimgeour. Dundee.
Duffus, Lord, ii. 50.
Dugar, John, (a M'Grigor) 193, 222.
Du Haro, iii. 439.
Dumbarton Castle, 194, 195, 258 ; iii. 171,
249, 259, 361.
Dumbarton, provost of, iii. 420, 456.
Dumblane, Bishop of, v. Bellenden. Wed-
derburne,
Dumfries, iii. 118-120.
Dumfries, Earl of, 16, 123, 166, 193, 386,
425, 440, 447 ; ii. 164 ; iii. 366.
Dun v. Erskin.
Dunbar of Grange, 472.
Dunbar, George, minister of Air, 62.
Dunbar, William, 465.
Dunbar, iii. 102, 106, 111, 114, 117, 132,
484, 521.
Dundas of Arniston, Sir James, iii. 382,
391.
Dundas of Duddingston, George, ii. 217 ;
iii. 122, 125, 128.
Dundas of Dundas, 137; iii. 174, — younger,
430.
Dundee, Constable of, v. Dudhope.
Dundee, James Earl of, iii. 443, v. Dud
hope.
Dundee, 70, 150, 205 ; ii. 233, 264, 418 ;
iii. 35, 117, 248, 250, 280, 443.
Dundee, Town-Clerk of, v. Wedderburne.
Dunfermline, Charles Earl of, 205, 215,
21 6, 359, 269, 272, 377, 380, 383, 397 ;
ii. 45-54, 67, 68, 85, 476 ; iii. 95.
Dunglass, 207, 258 ; ii. 440.
Dunkeld, Bishop of, v. Lindsay.
Dunlop of Dunlop, 245, 267.
604
INDEX OF NAMES.
Dunlop of Garnkirk, John, iii. 130.
Dunlop, Alexander, minister of Ardrossan,
13, 245, 473,— Paisley, iii. 200, 245,
276,435.
Duppa, Dr., iii. 444.
Dunse, Dunce, 214, 239 ; ii. 438, 440, 442.
— Castle, 212, 215, 258.— Hill or Law,
175, 210, 211, 216; ii. 438, 460.—
Pacification, 222, 223, 263.
Durham, James, minister of Glasgow, 384 ;
iii. 97, 110, 114, 123, 126, 143, 145-
159, 162, 165-168, 171, 177, 179, 181-
185, 189, 197, 201, 203, 222, 236-240,
249. 277-281, 296, 297, 311-314, 357,
368, 373, 376, 383, 403, 559, 560.
Durham, Patrick, dean of Roas, 426.
Durham, Bishop of, 263.
Durie v. Gibson.
Dune, John, minister, Edinburgh, iii. 556.
Dury, Dune, John, 9, 117, 358, 364, 376 ;
ii. 166, 342.
Dysart, provost of, 360.
E
EARLE, MR. ii. 492.
Eccles, Hew, minister, iii. 420, 561.
Eccles,* William, of Kildonan, minister of
Ayr, iii. 368, 393, 436, 456.
Edinburgh, 18, 37, 46, 155, 170, 220;
ii. 275, 314, 345, 399, 435-438 ; iii. 18,
35, 52, 62, 64, 98, 120, 130, 249, 319,
et passim.
— Bishop of, v. Forbes. Lindsay. Wisheart.
—Castle, 79-82, 166, 194, 195, 202, 219,
220, 224, 247, 258, 260 ; ii. 435, 463 ;
iii. 125, 128, 356, 367.
— Magistrates and Council, iii. 55, 56, 66.
— Ministers, 149, 150; ii. 171; iii. 56,
96, 174, 215, 248, 254, 280, 463, et
passim.
—Presbytery, iii. 174, 305, 317, 410.
—University, iii. 96, 244, 365, 456.
Edwards, Thomas, ii. 190, 193, 201, 215,
251, 279, 352, 358, 416 ; iii. 302.
Eglintoun, Alexander, Earl of, 13, 88, 104,
106, 120, 123, 134, 147, 170, 201, 211,
214, 235, 238, 257, 266, 286, 289, 365,
489; ii. 3, 6, 8, 11, 18, 27-30, 37, 45,
49, 72, 85, 93, 174, 204, 209, 219, 299,
369, 445-449 ; iii. 35, 36, 48, 136, 139,
145, 147, 249, 317, 387, 395, 456.
Eglintoun, Hew, minister of Dunlop, 13,
244, 473.
Eglionby, (Aglionby) Dr. ii. 40.
EIJUM B*<r<A<*»j, iii. 87.
Elcho, Alexander Lord, 124, 137; ii. 45, 47,
85, 225, 227, 262, 418f, 420f, 421, 472.
Elders, 133, 135, 137 ; ii. 110, 115, 116,
120, 175, 478.
Elliot, Robert, minister of Linton, 132.
Elliot, Dr. James, minister of Edinburgh.
78, 108, 150, 426.
Elphinston, Lord, 381, 458, 462.
Elphinston, Master of, 425.
Elphinston, David, minister of Dumbarton,
iii, 136, 182, 456.
Elphinstone, Sir George, 107.
Elphinstone, Sir W. Justice-Generall, 100,
123, 220, 397, 448, 458, 462.
Elphinstone, William, Bishop of Aber
deen, 169 ; iii. 402.
Embassy, Dutch, 288, 294 ; ii. 113, 143,
150, 151, 154, 199 ; iii. 251, 359.
Embassy, French, 484; ii. 113, 114, 143,
149 ; iii. 251, 359.
Embassy, Portuguese, iii. 251.
Embassy, Spanish, iii. 251.
Emperour L\ ii. 265, 277, 311 ; iii. 24.
Engagement, Engagers, 1648, Hi. 54, 57
59, 63, 92, 95.
English, Robert, ii. 158.
Ennerteil, Innerteil, Lord, v. Erskine.
Episcopacie, 155, 158, 247, 273, 280, 285,
292, 302-314, 350, 354, 356.
Erastians, Erastus, ii. 129, 199, 265, 277,
307, 311, 315, 318, 336, 360; iii. 1.
365, 371.
Erpenius, Thomas, ii. 387.
Erroll, Earl of, Constable, 47, 205, 368,
378, 383.
Erskine, John, Lord, 124, 144, 210-212,
379, 425.
Erskine of Dun, 132, 378, 464.
Erskine of Scotscraig, Arthur, 51, 370 ;
ii. 53, 54, 473.
Erskine of Innerteil, Sir George, Lord of
Session, 111.
Erskine, Sir Charles, ii. 217, 241, 325, 503.
Essex, Earl of, General, 203,301, 304, 305,
351 ; ii. 56, 65, 81, 99, 103, 112, 118,
126, 130-143, 149, 153, 157, 170- M'2.
178, 181-200, 206, 211-238, 246, 278.
401, 488, 490, 496, 499 ; iii. 539.
Eton College, iii. 401.
INDEX OF NAMES.
605
F
FAIRBAIRNE, iii. 174.
Fairfax, Lord. ii. 56, 57, 79, 81, 104, 280.
Fairfax, General, Sir Thomas, ii. 139, 141,
163, 167-172, 176, 179, 181, 185, 188,
195, 201, 203, 215, 260, 278. 283, 288-
300, 305-309, 315-324, 356, 361-369,
504, 508, 514; iii. 16, 18, 46, 51, 360.
Fairfoul, Forfair, Andrew, minister of
North Leith, 64, 363 ; ii. 51 ; iii. 20, 34,
Archbishop of Glasgow, 485-487.
Fairley, James, bishop of Argyle, 6, 18,
164, 372; minister of Laswade, ii. 53,93.
Falconbridge, Lord, iii. 427.
Falkland, Viscount, 302, 307, 322, 328,
329, 332; ii. 66.
Fast, Public, 71, 78, 92, 102, 111, 122,
258, 292, 294 ; ii. 45, 53, 60, 184, 227,
238, 313, 378, 461 ; iii. 5, 107, 127,
134, 143, 169, 190-196.
Fenwick, Finnik, Colonel, iii. 173.
Fergus the Second, ii. 314.
Fergushill, John, minister of Ochiltree,14;
ii. 144.
Ferguson, Allan, minister of Strathblane,
472.
Ferguson, Allan, minister of Drymen, iii.
315, 561.
Ferguson, David, minister of Dunfermline,
iii. 335.
Ferguson, James, minister of Kilwinning,
ii. 161; iii. 15, 56, 120, 134 140-143, 168,
175, 181, 184, 199, 210, 217-222, 236,
254, 275-281, 296, 314, 317, 335, 357,
383, 394, 420, 434, 456, 471, 559, 561.
Fiennes, Nathaniel, 302; ii. 126 ; iii. 427.
Finch, Lord Keeper, 283, 286, 291 ; ii.
472, 473.
Findaurie, Laird of, iii. 544.
Finlater, Finlature, Earl of, 205.
Fintrie -o. Graham.
Fisher, minister, London, ii. 333.
Fleetwood, General, iii. 355, 359, 387,
396, 426-428, 440.
Fleming, Lord, 106, 124, 137, 195, 210,
211, 262, 372, 379, 486; ii. 93; iii.
95, 420.
Fleming, Archibald, Commissary of Glas
gow, 88, 105 ; ii. 87, 319, 322, 339 340;
iii. 420.
Fleming, James, minister of Yester, ii. 46;
iii. 184.
Fleming, Fleeming, Lady, ii. 501.
Fleming, Robert, ii. 428f.
Fleming, Sir William, 260; ii.322; iu.367.
Fletcher, David, minister of Edinburgh,
78, 108, 150, 494.— Bishop of Argyle,
iii. 486.
Fletcher, James, provost of Dundee, 136,
147.
Fletcher, John, advocate, iii. 211, 419, 465.
Fletcher, Miles, printer, iii. 537.
Forbes, Lord, 107, 222.
Forbes, Alexander, Master of, 204, 205,
472, 492.
Forbes of Boyndlie, Alexander, tutor of
Pitsligo, ii. 54.
Forbes of Granard, Sir Arthur, iii. 439.
Forbes, Alexander, minister of Campsie,
133, 245.
Forbes, Arthur, minister, iii. 547.
Forbes of Corse, Dr. John, professor, 93,
248, 437; ii. 65, 92, 166, 313, 327.
Forbes, John, preacher, 144.
Forbes, Dr. William, Bishop of Edinburgh,
76, 248, 431, 433 ; iii. 400, 406.
Forbes of Corse, Patrick, Bishop of Aber-
been, 425, 437; iii. 555.
Forbes, Patrick, minister at Delft, ii. 175,
181, 193, 201, 276, 351, 365, 378.
Forbes of Craigievar, Sir William, 378.
Forbes, William, minister of Fraserburgh,
492.
Forbes of Eires, ii. 225.
Forbes, Bishop of Caithness, iii. 486.
Forbesses, 82 ; 262.
Foreign, Ecclesiastical matters, 3, 9-12,
225-228, 247, 357; ii. 65, 115, 143,
155, 165, 179, 193, 197, 201, 239, 251,
265, 276, 311, 313, 324, 327, 342, 365,
371, 378, 387, 431-433; iii. 22-24, 31,
41, 67-70, 82, 101-104, 256, 267-275,
309-311, 324, 390.
Foreign, Literary matters, 35, 224-228 ;
ii. 65, 290 ; iii. 24, 41, 56, 69, 101, 309-
311, 390.
Foreign, State matters, 3, 9, 109, 190,
224, 288, 294, 311-313, 357; ii. 9, 44,
62, 81, 126, 163, 190, 192, 215, 222-
228, 269, 287, 293, 308, 310, 322,
338, 369, 376, 380, 388, 391, 405, 409 ;
iii. 10, 32, 50, 89, 256, 291-294, 301,
319-324, 369-371, 388, 424, 450, 472.
606
INDEX OF NAMES.
Forrest, Ferret, David, minister of Kil-
conquhar, ii. 52; iii. 173, 178, 183,
187, 212.
Forrest, William, schoolmaster, iii. 368.
Forrester, Joanna, iii. 456, App.
Forrester, Foster, Lord, iii. 367, 456.
Forrester, Thomas, minister of Melrose,
164, 165.
Forsyths, Forsuiths, 88.
Forsyth, David, regent in College of Glas
gow, ii. 37, 87, 289.
Forsyth, Gavin, minister of Cathcart 133 ;
ii.*87,377.
Forsyth, Henry, minister of Leinzie, iii.
313
Forsyth, James, student, iii. 397.
Forsyth, James, minister of Kilpatrick, 89,
97, 98, 137, 162,.484.
Forsyth, John, minister of Leinzie, 133 ;
ii. 377.
Forsyth, Lieutenant-Colonel, iii. 251,
Forth, Earl of, v. Buthven.
Forther v. Pitcairne.
Foulkes, alderman, ii. 358 ; iii. 17.
Foules, Sir David, 321.
Foulis, Sir William, 472.
Foyer, a criminal, iii. 394.
Fraser, Lord, 107, 204, 492.
Fraser of Philorth, 123.
Fraser of Strichan, 369.
Fraser, Thomas, murderer, 373.
Fraser, Dean of the Isles, 426.
Fraser, Dr., iii. 117.
Frasers, the, 82 ; ii. 262.
Fuller, Thomas, iii. 265.
Fullertoun, James, minister of Beith, 13,
245, 473.
Fullertoun, William, minister of St.
Quivox, ii. 69 ; iii. 200, 236, 456.
Fullertoun, Colonel, ii. 250.
Futhie, Harrie, minister, ii. 92.
Fynes v. Fiennes.
G.
GAIRDNER, an Anabaptist, iii. 178.
Galbraith, John, minister of Bothkenner,
ii. 69, 428f; iii. 257.
Galbraith, William, iii. 257-
Galloway, Earl of, 123, 145, 194, 373,
384, 424 ; ii. 468, 469 ; iii. 95.
Galloway, Bishop of, v. Sydserff. Lamb.
Galloway, Sir James, 425 ; ii. 317-
Garden, Gardyne, Gearnes, ii. 54.
Gardner, Sir Thomas, Solicitor-General,
292, 348 ; ii. 133.
Garret, ii. 186, 238, 251.
Garthland, Garfland, v. M'Douall.
Garraway, Henry, alderman, 343.
Gask v. Oliphant.
Gataker, Thomas, ii. 110.
Gayre, John, Lord Mayor, ii. 400.
Gellibrand, Samuel, bookseller, 357.
Gerard, Sir Gilbert, ii. 488.
Gerard the tailor, iii. 290.
Gerard, knight of the Bedchamber, iii. 88.
Gemmel, John, minister, iii. 200.
Gibbs, iii. 17.
Gibson, of Durie, Sir Alexander, Lord of
Session, 111, 212, 378,
Gibson, Alexander, younger of Durie 16,
84, 91, 123, 129, 137, 161, 256, 270,
355,— Clerk of Parliament, 382, 385,
396.— Lord Register, ii. 68, 93, 94;
111. 441.
Gibson, General- Major, ii. 139.
Gibson, Nancy, iii. 436.
Gibson of Clayslop, John, iii. 437.
Gibson of Leith, 62.
Gibson, Harie, clerk of Glasgow, 229, 246,
268 ; ii. 12.
Gilbert, Eleazar, ii. 276.
Giles, Captain, 338.
Gillespie, George, minister of Wemyss, 90,
145, 189, 269, 295, 303, 339, 362, 365,
367, 480 ; ii. 5,— of Edinburgh, 47, 55,
70, 76, 85-88, 96-98, 106, 111, 117, 140,
159. 161, 175, 177, 199, 237, 248, 250,
254, 259, 265, 273, 295, 321, 378, 380,
385, 387, 392, 394, 397, 404, 406, 414,
482, 485, 499-512, 516 ; iii. 12, 20, 33,
37, 44, 46, 52, 68, 70, 91, 94, 231, 326,
449 App. 541, 543, 545.
Gillespie, Patrick, minister of Kirkcaldy
and Glasgow, ii. 4, 506 ; iii. 61, 109-
112, 126, 131-137, 140-144, 147, 150-
156. 162, 167, 169-171, 173, 181, 180,
187, 193, 200-203, 213, 217, 220, 221,
234, 237-244, 249, 253, 257, 276-288,
295-301, 312-319, 322, 327, 335, 341-
345, 348, &56, 361-364, 383-386, 393,
396-399, 404, 407, 411, 417-422, 431-
433, 446-449, 474476, 479-483, 544,
547, 567.
Gillespie, Mrs. Patrick, iii. 243, 407, 448,
INDEX OF NAMES.
607
Gi-illon, John, minister of Cavers, iii. 61.
Gilmour, Sir John, advocate, 382 ; iii. 465.
477.
Gladstanes, Dr. Alexander, Archdean of
St. Andrews, 97, 149, 151, 425,
Glamorgan, Earl of, ii. 338, 347, 350.
Glanderston v. Mure.
Glasfuird, Parish of, 237 ; ii. 96, 450.
Glasgow, City of, 106, 120, 194, 228-235,
398; ii. 234, 262, 314, 317, 321, 323,
339, 345, 399, 405, 410, 417, 443-449 ;
iii. 5, 18, 52, 62, 98, 118, 122-125, 161-
168, 172,249, 255, 319, 443.
—Assembly, 1638, 118-175.
— Bishop of, v. Lindsay.
—College, 63, 133, 171, 399 ; ii. 7-33, 37,
39, 71; iii. 135, 139, 146-160, 206-
213, 237-244, 282, 285-287, 311-313,
364, 384-386, 408, 448, 452-457, 471-
483.
— Council and Magistrates, 106, 228-234 ;
ii. 12, 339, 428f, 479, 480; iii. 18, 47,
161-165, 346-350, 354, 360-364, 420,
433, 456.
— Learned Men, iii. 402.
—Ministers, 8 ; ii. 189, 399 ; iii. 61, 215-
220, 249, 258, 280, 314, 383, 394, 434.
—Presbytery, 104, 120, 133; iii. 202-
217 245
—Synod of, iii. 115, 142-144, 177-190,
215, 236, 245-248, 254, 259, 275-278,
297, 317, 352, 393, 421, 431, 561.
Glen, Henry, baiUie, Glasgow, 106,228, 234,
246, 268 ; ii. 12.
Glen, John, ii. 240, 242, 285.
Glencairn, William, Earl of, 98, 123, 205,
396 ; ii. 5, 45, 47, 68, 83, 419f ; iii. 35,
36, 54, 57, 230, 250-255, 287, 317,387,
401, 412, 413, 419, 420, 430, 441, 443,
446, 448, 452, 455, 456, 460, 461, 463,
465, 468, 471, 472, 474-481, 485, 487-
Glendoning, William, 472 ; iii. 507.
Glengarie, iii. 250, 255.
Glenham, Sir Thomas, ii. 215, 316, 317.
Glenurchie, Laird of, iii. 255.
Gloucester, Duke of, Henry, ii. 297 ; ni.
442, 445.
Glyn, serjeant, 323-332, 340, 343-347.
Godfrey, Mr., minister, iii. 355.
Goff, Colonel, iii. 427, 438.
Gomarus, ii. 251, 290, 327.
Goodman, John, Jesuit, 292, 295, 298,
302.
Goodwin, John, ii. Ill, 180, 192, 279,
443 ; iii. 391, 443-
Goodwin, Thomas, ii. 110, 111, 118-123,
131, 140, 145, 175, 190, 198, 218, 228,
236, 242, 291, 296, 299, 302, 343, 344 ;
iii. 391, 407, 425, 443.
Gorcum, Captain, iii. 90, 91.
Gordon v. Huntly.
Gordon, Lord, 393, 425; ii. 45, 234, 262,
321, 323.
Gordon, Lord, Lewis, iii. 117.
Gordon of Earlstown, William, 16, 146.
Gordon of Gordonston, Sir -Robert, 425 ; .
ii. 3, 4.
Gordon, Mr. ii. 303.
Gordons, 70, 82 ; ii. 263 ; iii. 387.
Goring, General, Lord, 291 ; ii. 43, 113,
163, 260, 283-286, 291, 295, 298-300,
305, 308, 315, 317, 322, 328, 489, 494,
501, 504.
Gorme, Gorrum, Sir Donald, 193, 194 ; ii.
74.
Govan, Lieutenant William, iii. 113, 122,
124, 243, 317, 447.
Govean, Robert, iii. 372.
Graham, James. See Montrose.
Graham of Braco, ii. 233.
Graham of Duchray, John, iii. 287.
Graham of Fintry, 383 ; ii. 233.
Grahame, Archibald, minister, 5, 6.
Graham, George Bishop of Orkney, 150,
163.
Grahame, James, iii. 135
Graham, John, minister of Auchterarder,
ii. 92.
Graham, John, merchant, provost of Glas
gow, iii. 150-152, 162, 163, 171, 448.
Grallator, iii. 79.
Grandeson, governor of Windsor, ii. 57-
Grants, 82; ii. 263.
Grant of Grant, 70 ; ii. 234.
Grant, James, 193, 222.
Gray of Wark, Lord, ii. 81, 89.
Gray, fiar of Nauchtone, 472.
Gray, Colonel, ii. 100, 105.
Gray, Andrew, minister of Glasgow, iii.
258, 314.
Gray, James, ii. 397.
Gray, John, assistant-clerk, 129.
Gray, Robert, 355.
Greenhead v. Ker.
Greig, John, minister in Ireland, iii. 97.
Grenville, Greenville, Sir John, iii. 441.
INDEX OF NAMES.
Grierfson] of Lag, Sir John, iii. 366.
Grier[son] of Lag, Sir Robert, 425.
Grimstone, Harbottle, speaker, iii. 442.
Guebriant, Marischal, ii. 114.
Guild, Dr. William, minister of Aberdeen,
97, 135, 136, 172, 472, 492.
Guise, Duke of, 23.
Gunn, crown er, 221.
Gustavus Adolphus, iii. 301, 371.
Guthrie, Henry, minister of Stirling, 249,
254, 358, 359, 361, 369, 371, 426 ; ii.
69,76,91,94; iii. 55.
Guthrie, James, minister of Lauder, of
Stirling, iii. 19, 44, 46, 55-61, 96, 111-
116, 118, 123, 126, 131-137, 139, 141,
143, 146, 173, 193, 213, 234, 240, 245,
253. 257, 276, 279, 283, 296, 298, 301,
305, 315, 318, 322, 327, 352-356, 365,
394, 404, 446, 459, 467, [544, 545, 547,
560, 566-568.
Guthrie, John, Bishop of Murray, 7, 163,
365, 366, 448.
Guthrie, John, minister, ii. 50.
Guthrie, William, minister of Fenwick,
iii. 53, 193, 246.
Guthrie, Town-Clerk of Edinburgh, ii. 51.
Gwyn, 318, 319, 324, 325.
H
HAAK, Theodore, ii. 188, 226 ; iii. 7, 231,
304.
Hacket, Halket, Colonel ii. 419 ; Robert
iii. 111.
Racket's Regiment, ii. 419.
Haddington, Earl of, 47, 64, 70, 74, 77,
81, 123, 258, 424, 440 ; ii. 100.
Hague, Treaty at the, iii. 67-102, 458,
App. 521.
Haislead, Heslet, v. Montgomery.
Halden, Major, ii. 421f, 422.
Haliburton, George, minister of Crail, 136,
153.— of Perth, ii. 47, 50 ;— Bishop of
Dunkeld, iii. 486.
Haliburton, George, junior, ii. 47, 50.
Hall, Gilbert, minister of Kirkliston, iii.
446.
Hall, Henry, ii. 110.
Hall, John, iii. 362, 363.
Hall, Joseph, Bishop of Norwich, 293,
303, 442.
Hambden, Hampden, John ii. 79.
Hamilton, Marchioness, Dowager of, 98.
Hamilton, James, Marquis of, 7, 47, 64,
70.— Commissioner, 1 7, 87, 90-94, 97,
108-116, 118-144, 146, 155, 166, 171,
187, 194, 200, 220, 247, 273, 277, 292,
304, 310, 317, 337. 342, 356, 359, 381,
386, 388, 391-396, 400, 424, 437, 445,
462, 471, 475, 482-489 ; ii. 39, 46, 58-
60, 63, 68, 72, 77, 87,100,119.— Duke of
124, 127, 131, 138, 163, 201, 354, 366,
378, 383, 400, 425, 429, 438 ; 18, 33,
35, 38, 40, 45, 47, 51, 57, 65, 249, 387,
435,481.
Hamilton, William Duke of, v. Lanerick,
Earl of.— (Secretary,) 98, 115, 260, iii.
101, 109, 249, 435, 436, 482.
Hamilton, (Selkirk) Duke of, iii. 443, 456,
471, 480, 483.
Hamilton, Marquis of, iii. 478.
Hamilton, Dutchess of, iii. 480-483.
Hamilton of Bargeny, Sir John, 425.
Hamilton of Barncleugh, ii. 314.
Hamilton of Broomhill, Sir John, v. Bel-
haven.
Hamilton, Alexander, crowner, General
of Artillery, 98, 195, 203; ii. 100; iii.
40.
Hamilton, Alexander, minister of Moni-
gaff, 426.
Hamilton, Archibald, Jesuit, iii. 403.
Hamilton, Claud, 246, 268 ; ii. 10.
Hamilton, Christian, iii. 456 App.
Hamilton, Sir Frederick, 472.
Hamilton, Gavin, minister of Cadder, iii.
437.
Hamilton, George, minister of Newburn,
449 ; ii. 49 ; iii. 173.
Hamilton of Priestfield, Sir James, ii. 317.
Hamilton, James, minister of Camnethan,
iii. 420, 468, 485.
Hamilton, James, minister of Wigtoun,
426.
Hamilton, James, 490.
Hamilton, James, minister of Dumfries,
64, 146, 172, 472 ; ii. 48, 52,-- of Edin
burgh, 96, 386 ; iii. 63, 80, 168, 193,
215-222, 275, 307, 308, 340, 453, 465,
468, 481, 544-547, 563.
Hamilton, James, dean of Glasgow, 425.
Hamilton, James, minister of Blantyre,
iii. 314.
Hamilton, John, minister of Innerkip.
104, 172: ii. 547; iii. 357.
INDEX OF NAMES.
609
Hamilton of Orbiston, Sir John, Justice-
Clerk, 48, 64, 70, 105, 197, 390, 396,
440, 452, 458, 460-463, 487; ii. 68,
437.
Hamilton of Silverton Hill, Sir Robert, iii.
436.
Hamilton, John, minister of Dalserf, Decerf,
iii. 434.
Hamilton, John, ii. 124.
Hamilton, Mary," iii. 484.
Hamilton, Patrick, minister, iii. 60.
Hamilton, Patrick, iii. 456.
Hamilton, Dr. Robert, minister of Glass-
ford, 129, 151, 165, 168, 237.
Hamilton, Robert, minister of Lismahago,
16, 65, 169, 170, 245.
Hamilton, Robert, skipper, ii. 385.
Hamilton, Thomas, ii. 437.
Hamilton, William, baillie of Linlithgow,
266.
Hamilton, clerk, 577.
Hamilton, gentleman of the Horse, ii. 437.
Hamiltons, ii. 59 ; iii. 250.
Hammond, Dr. Henry, iii. 400, 406, 409,
444.
Hanna, George, minister of Torphichen,
76, 425.
Hanna, Dr. James, dean of Edinburgh,
6, 18, 22, 76, 78, 89, 91, 137, 150, 425.
Hans, (Lauderdaill ?) ii. 515.
Harcourt, Prince de, ii. 113, 143, 149,
293.
Harderwick, University of, iii. 82.
Harper, Sir John, iii. 448.
Harper, Thomas, printer, iii. 531,
Harries v. Herries.
Harrison, Major-General, ii. 209 ; iii. 298,
358, 443.
Harrison, Mr. 274.
Hart, Andrew, printer, iii. 556.
Hartfield, Earl of, ii, 314.
Hartford, Earl of, ii. 56.
Harvie, John, minister of New Machar,
135
Hatcher, Mr. ii. 89, 99, 104, 299, 302, 483.
Hay, Sir Henry, commissary, Edinburgh,
426.
Hay, Sir John, Clerk-Register, 8, 22, 23,
33, 38, 41, 44, 46, 70, 75, 93, 123, 150,
220, 276, 279, 425, 440, 446, 448, 452,
458,462,466; ii. 329.
Hay, John, minister of Renfrew, 104, 426 ;
ii. 87, 340,
VOL. III.
Hay, Dr. Theodore, archdeacon of Glas
gow, 425.
Hay, William, 384, 427.
Hazlehead v. Montgomery.
Hegatus, Gulielmus, iii. 403.
Helvetian Divines, ii. 431.
Henderson, Abram, minister of Whithorn,
426.
Henderson, Alexander, minister of Leuch
ars, 19, 23, 35, 42, 52, 84, 85, 93, 96,
121, 125, 127-132, 134-168— of Edin
burgh, 175, 188, 189, 204, 216, 241,
244, 249-253, 257, 269, 271, 280, 285,
289, 303-305, 307, 339, 359-379, 385,
394-397, 446, 449, 480, 485; ii. 1,
11, 22, 24, 27, 30, 32, 40, 45-51,
55, 59, 66, 70,, 74, 76, 83-98, 102,
104, 106, 110, 117, 120, 123, 128, 146,
159, 161, 172, 177, 182, 184, 198, 212,
220, 237, 253, 258, 261, 276, 279, 295-
298, 323-327, 331, 342, 370-373, 378,
382, 384-389, 392, 398, 440, 447, 463,
468,- 482-487 ; iii. 3, 12, 83, 93, 227,
326, v. Mackay.
Henderson, David, minister of Kilmaurs, 6.
Henderson, Col. Sir John, ii. 127, 150.
Henderson, John, ii. 266, 311.
Henderson, Lawrence, iii. 545. t
Henderson, Robert, minister of Lochmaben,
146. .
Henderson,' Thomas, clerk, ii. 486; iii.
549.
Henrietta Maria, Queen, ii. 57, 63, 67,
73, 77, 81, 125, 132, 151, 168, 171,
194, 211, 213, 228, 244, 277, 310, 347,
350, 363 ; iii. 41, 416, 111146.
Henrietta, Princess, iii. 446.
Hepburn of Humbie, Adam, ii. 89, 100,
213,216,218,385.
Hepburn of Wauchton, 136, 269, 397.
Herbert, Lord, 11, 310.
Herbert, Attorney-General, 292.
Herbertson, John, ii. 289, iii. 213, 241,
437.
Hereford, Marquis, ii. 317-
Heriot, John, minister of Blantyre, iii. "314.
Heriot, Lieutenant-Colonel, iii. 251.
Herle, Charles, ii. 118, 140, 201, 236,404,
415.
Herries, Lord, 81, 193.
Hertford, Lord, 304, 305.
Hesilrig, Sir Arthur, ii. 487 ; iii. 359, 437,
441.
4 H
610
INDEX OF NAMES.
Hesse, Landgrave of, 3.
Heylin, Dr. 226, 286; iii. 400, 406, 444,
Hibbets, Lady, 330, 331.
Hibbets, Thomas, 331.
Hickes, John, iii. 553.
Hiegat, Janet, iii. 435.
Highlanders, 196, 211, 212, 221 ; iii. 6,
18, 117. — v. Clandonald. Dugar.
Hill, Thomas, ii. 220.
Hill, Willie, iii. 477.
Hinnyman v. Honyman.
Hobbes, Hopes, Thomas, ii. 388, 395.
Hodancourt, ii. 114.
Hodger, Hodzeard, Robert, iii. 286, 287.
Hog, John, minister of Larbert, iii. 257-
Holborn, Hobourne, General-Major, ii.
206,421,422; iii. 38, 40, 45.
Holland, Admiral of, 198.
Holland, Earl of, 204, 210, 306, 341 ; ii.
99, 135, 178, 439.
Hollis, Denzil, ii. 63, 141, 155, 303, 311,
489; iii. 16, 19, 441.
Holmes, Major, iii. 439.
Home, Earl of, 50, 123, 219, 224 ; ii. 468,
469.
Home of Aytoun, William, 472.
Home of Wedderburn, 147.
Home, Colonel, ii. 419, 421, 422.
Home, Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander, iii.
457 App.
Home, Abraham, minister, ii. 502.
Home, John, minister, ii. 86 ; iii. 561.
Home, Robert, minister, iii. 547.
Home, Robert, minister of Crawford- John,
iii. 187, 247, 394.
Home, William, minister, iii. 142.
Home, William, baillie, 235 ; iii. 139.
Home, William, iii. 435.
Homes, 392.
Homes, Dr. ii. Ill, 180.
Honorius Reggius •». Hornius.
Honyman, Hinnyman, Andrew, minister,
St. FillanX 370 ; ii. St. Andrew's, 49,
iii. 176, 178, 183, 187, 201, 212.
Hooker, Thomas, ii. 239 ; iii. 303, 306, 375,
387.
Hope of Hopton, Sir James, iii. 114, 249.
Hope of Craighall, Sir John, 111, 378 ; iii.
37, 249, 547.
Hope, Sir Thomas, Lord Advocate, 11, 40,
50, 65, 75, 107, HI, 125, 212, 256, 381,
390, 395, 397, 425, 440, 452, 458, 462,
473, 483 ; ii. 68, 83-97.
Hope of Kerse, Sir Thomas, 384, 385, 397 ;
ii. 59.
Hopkins, John, iii. 526.
Hopton, General Lord, ii. 57, 113, 118,
126, 131, 133, 151, 154-156, 158, 181,
206, 213, 215, 260, 283, 305, 308, 351,
356, 361.
Home, Gustave, Swedish officer, ii. 9.
Hornius, Georgius, (Honorius Reggius,)
iii. 9.
Hotham, Sir John, ii. 43, 56, 79.
Houstoune, James, minister of Glassford,
ii. 96.
Houston of Houston, iii. 136.
Houston of Houston, younger, iii. 420,
456.
Howard, Lord, 72, 260, 393 ; iii. 367, 427.
Howard, Mr. ii. 490, 495, 498.
Howie, Dr. Robert, provost of the New
College, St. Andrews, 97, 361, 425.
Hoy, Mr., 331.
Hoyle, Dr. Joshua, minister, ii. 102.
Hudson, ii. 375.
Huit, (Hewitt) ii. 175.
Humbie v. Hepburn.
Hume v. Home.
Hunter of Hunterstoun, 13.
Huntly, Marquis of, 63, 70,, 81, 97, 107,
188, 192-197, 205, 222, 393, 465 ; ii.
74, 92, 164, 172, 176, 181 ; iii. 87, 249,
466.
Hurrie, Sir John, Colonel, ii. 56, 79, 127.
141, 238, 264, 275, 417f-419f.
Hutcheson, George, minister of Calmonell,
afterwards of Edinburgh, ii. 69, ; iii.
56, 61, 114, 149, 173, 194, 210, 234,
281, 335, 354, 387, 408, 414, 415, 420.
461, 465, 468, 546.
Hutcheson, James, minister, 133.
Hyde, Lord Clarendon, ii. 66, 244, 398 ;
iii. 72, 88, 387, 409, 414, 437, 439, 442,
445, 460, 464, 468, 471, 485, 486,
Hyde, Anne, Duchess of York, iii. 445.
INCHEQUIN, Earl of, ii. 214, 222, 233, 347 ;
iii. 567.
Independents, 287, 311 ; ii. 110, 117, 120-
123, 128-131, 136-140, 143-149, 157,
159, 170, 180, 183, 185, 215, 218, 228-
237, 240^250, 253, 336, 364 ; iii. 1. 1>.
INDEX OF NAMES.
Independents, «. Accommodation. Apo-
logetical Narration. Remonstrance.
Toleration.
Inglis of Ingliston, Major, ii. 422f.
Inglis, Archibald, minister, iii. 247.
Inglis, Anna, 372.
Inglis, James, minister of Dailly, iii. 561.
Inglis, Robert, minister, iii. 561.
Ingoldsby, Colonel, iii. 427.
Ingram, Sir Arthur, 333.
Innerteil, Ennerteil, v. Erskine.
Innes, of Balvenie, Sir Robert, 425.
Innes of Innes, Robert, 385, 492.
Innes, Major, iii. 36, 95.
Innes, ii. 141.
Innes, James, iii. 553.
Inneses, 82.
Ireton, Henry, iii. 443.
Irvine, James Earl of, 193 ; ii. 52, 281.
Irvine, Provost of, iii. 420, 456, v. Barclay.
Irvines, Irwynes, 82.
Isles, Bishop of, v. Campbell, 425.
JACK, Jacheus, Thomas, iii. 403.
Jack, William, iii. 246.
Jackson, 8.
Jacobus, ii. 213.
Jaffray, Alexander, provost of Aberdeen,
iii. 120, 447, 507, 568.
James VI. 2, 42, 129, 298, 322, 328, 443 ;
ii. 371, 373, 515 ; iii. 128, 459, 529-
531, 556.
Jamieson, Baillie, ii. 322, 378 ; iii. 70, 105-
108, 137, 167.
Jamieson v. Waugh.
Jamieson, Alexander, minister of Govan,
365, 397.
Jamieson, John, minister of Eccles, iii. 284.
Jamieson, William, minister of Swinton, ii.
84 ; iii. 182, 279.
Jausie v. Joussie.
Jenkins, Jonkyn, David, merchant, 31.
611
'280, 285, 289, 304, 356-378 passim
384, 394, 396, 464, 480, 485, ]$£?$.
11, 22, 28-32, 41, 43, 46, 59 65 68*
75, 77, 83-97, 106, 128, 140, 172? 'l?6
178, 187, 217, 220, 237, 251, 281, 297
323, 325, 345, 357, 368, 403, 406, 427f
440, 450-460, 474, 478, 483, 488-498;
506, 512, 516; iii. 6, 18, 33, 35, 46
53-64, 88,91, 99, 102, 111-J20, 129
136, 173, 184, 194, 213, 234, 240, 245
249, 279, 283, 296-301, 305, 315, 318
322, 335-341, 348, 352, 356, 359 361
396, 404, 430, 433, 447, 522, 547, 566.
Johnstone, Lady, of Warriston, ii. 512 •
iii. 64.
Johnston, Lieutenant-Colonel, iii. 457 Ap.
Johnston, John, Glasgow, ii. 349 ; iii. 448.
Johnston, Dr. Robert, historian, ii. 9.
Johnstons, 392.
Jones, Captain, ii. 285— Col. 382 ; iii. 100.
Jortein, ii. 183.
Joussie, John, baillie, iii. 389.
Joyce, Captain, iii. 290.
Judge-Advocat, ii. 136, 510.
Judges, English, iii. 205, 208-212, 238.
Juxon, Dr. William, Bishop of London
7,293, 341, 438; ii. 474; iii. 444.
KEIR, Andrew, minister of Linlithgow,369.
Keir v. Stirling.
Keith, William, iii. 526, 527.
Kelly, Earl of, 77; ii. 64.
Kelly, Edward, 435.
Kenmure, Viscount, 16, 82; iii. 36, 95,
250, 367, 430, 462.
Kenmure, Lady, iii. 467.
Kennedy, Lady Margaret, iii. 235, 407.
Kennedy, Hugh, 269 ; ii. 217, 273, 279,
295, 299, 325, 382, 488-498 ; iii. 136.
Kennedy, Lord, 90.
Kent, Earl of, ii. 133.
Ker, Henry Lord, 391 ; ii. 64, 435, 436.
Jermyn, Germane, Henry (Earl of Bury,) Ker, Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew, iii. 457
:: loc ion AC\A . ::: 11*7 AAK. A™^
ii. 125, 139, 494 ; iii. 117, 445.
Johnston, Lord, 110, 123, 147, 196, 472 ;
ii. 322, 468, 469.
Johnstone, Archibald, afterwards Sir
Archibald, and Lord Warriston, 14,
34, 48, 50, 91, 112, 128-178 passim,
216, 220, 237, 242, 244, 255, 269-272,
App.
Ker, Andrew, clerk of Assembly, ii. 280,
330, 374, 384, 386 ; iii. 60, 137, 145,
153-157, 167-170, 188, 417, 521, 563.
Ker, Andrew, of Kirkton, iii. 60, 317, 393.
Ker, Colonel Gilbert, iii. 107, 111, 115,
122-125, 296.
612
INDEX OF NAMES.
Ker, James, iii. 398.
Ker, John, minister of Prestonpuns, 23, 91,
127, 472.
Ker, Robert, minister of Haddington, iii.
55, 136, 182, 188, 210, 214, 218, 277,
296,335.
Ker of Greenhead, Sir William, iii. 327,
348.
Ker, Sir William, Director of Chancery,
iii. 443.
Kerrs, 292.
Kerse v. Hope.
Kid, Francis, (Peter) minister of Douglas,
111. 247, 248.
Kilburnie v. Crawford of.
Kildonnan, Kildonel v. Eccles.
Kilmahew, v. Naper.
Kilmallock, Lord, 325.
Kilmaurs, Lord, iii. 366.
Kilpont, Lord, ii. 225, 233, 262.
Kilsyth, Battle of, ii. 420-423 ; iii. 255.
Kilsyth v. Livingston.
Kilwinning, ii. 443-449; iii. 9, 120.
Kincaid, Kinkaid, George, minister, ii. 52.
King, G-eneral, Lord Ythan, 269 ; ii. 57,
112, 201, 203, 204.
King, Sir Robert, 341.
Kinghorne, Earl of, 123, 145, 205, 375,
378, 4*4, 448, 458, 462 ; ii. 468.
Kingston, Lord, ii. 178.
Kinneir, Alexander, parson of Whitsom,
426.
Kinnoul, Earl of, 77, 206, 424 ; ii. 67, 71,
141,233; iii. 251, 431.
Kirkaldy, Thomas, minister, iii. 144, 317,
561.
Kirkcudbright, Lord 211, 425; ii. 468,
469; iii. 54.
Knave v. Nevay.
Knight, Col. iii. 438.
Knightley, Mr. iii. 539.
Knighton, , iii. 441.
Kno walls, Francis, 164.
Knowes, Christopher, 164.
Knox, John, the reformer, iii. 12.
Knox, Robert, minister of Kelso, ii. 52 ;
iii. 62, 182, 214, 253, 279.
Knox, Major, iii. 457 App.
LAMB, Andrew, Bishop of Galloway, 8.
Lamb, Thomas, minister. 367, 383.-
Lambert, General, iii. 47, 49, 51. 124.
171, 290, 354-361, 396, 407, 412, 427-
30, 438-441, 446, 471.
Lamington v. Baillie of.
Lammie, Mrs. iii. 197, 325, 332.
Lament of Lament, younger, 425
Lamonts, iii. 465.
Lane, Mr. the Prince's attorney, 348.
Lanerick, William Earl of, 260-263, '27«,
386, 394; ii. 41, 58, 66-69, 72, 76, 83,
124, 132, 138, 234, 353-a56, 386, 480,
506 ; iii. 15, 17, 33-37, 46, 73, 81, v.
Hamilton, William, Duke of.
Lang, James, minister, 87.
Langdale, Sir Marmaduke, ii. 260. 323 ;
iii. 47, 49, 567.
Langham, Alderman, ii. 400.
Langton v. Cockburn.
Lathrisk, Laird of, ii. 473.
Laud, Dr. William, Archbishop of Can
terbury, 2, 4, 7, 22, 32-34, 44, 48, 65,
71, 73', 77, 94, 97, 102, 105, 111, 116,
119, 140, 152, 161, 176, 208, 248, 274-
280, 28:3-287, 291, 295, 300, 303, 30.5.
309, 318, 320, 345, 422, 428-440, 47");
ii. 23, 40, 139, 208, 430-435, 472-475.
Lauderdaill, John, first Earl of, 40, 50,123,
126, 129, 425, 452, 456, 458, 462, 480;
ii. 45-47, 85, 94, 263, 437, 495.
Lauderdaill, John Lord Maitland, Earl.
379, 389 ; ii. 45, 50, 55, 65, 85, 88, 91,
96-98, 106, 134, 146, 237, 241, 279,
288, 293-298, 302, 330, 352, 396. 403.
428f, 473, 482, 485, 503, 505, 516;
iii. 22, 33-36, 45, 52, 64, 73, 81. JM.
93, 95, 101, 105, 117, 136, 138, 147,
154, 166, 170-172, 230, 249, 265, 290.
317, 326, 401, 405, 410-423, 439-448,
453, 457-464, 468, 474, 476, 483-486.
Laudian, Mr. chaplain, 77.
Laurence, iii. 187-
Laurentius, Blazius, regent, iii. 403.
Laurie, James, 355.
Laurie, Joseph, minister of Perth, 148.
Laurie, Lowrie, Robert, minister of Edin
burgh, iii. 34, 95, 179, 181-184, 189.
403, 546, 554, 555.
INDEX OF NAMES.
613
Law, John, minister of Campsie, iii. 314.
Law, Mungo, minister of Dysart, 370, —
of Edinburgh, ii. 52 ; iii. 61, 91, 136,
153, 218-220, 545-548, 563.
Law, Robert, minister of Kilpatrick, iii.
186, 394.
Lawenburgh, Lovingburgh, General, ii. 9,
44.
Lawers v. Campbell, 147 ; ii. 226, 264.
Layng, David, minister, iii. 547, 548.
Learmont of Balcolmie, Lord of Session,
381 ; iii. 317, 368.
Learmonth, Andrew, minister of Liberton,
76, 97, 430.
Leckie of that Ilk, 249-254, 358, 371.
Lee, Mr. ii. 393.
Lee v. Lockhart. -i?
Legg, Mr. ii. 392.
Legge, Colonel William, ii. 317, 488, 494.
Leicester, Earl of, 343.
Leighton, Dr. Alexander, 273.
Leighton, Robert, (afterwards Bishop,) iii.
244,258,365,485.
Leitch. David, minister of Dundrennan,
426.
Leitch, David, minister of Ellon, iii. 554.
Lekprevik, Robert, printer, iii. 526.
Lennox, Duke of, (Richmond,) 7, 11, 14,
17, 21, 33, 47, 64, 70, 74, 105, 315,
385, 387, 393-396, 424, 445, 489; ii.
59, 244, 247, 249, 260, 316, 383, 497 ;
iii. 249, 387.
Lenthall, Sir John, iii. 367, — Speaker, iii.
427.
Leslie, Field-Marshall Alexander, Earl of
Leven, 100, 1 11, 191, 194-197, 203, 207,
212-215, 222, 247, 256-263, 355, 385,
388, 392; ii. 100, 155, 172, 176, 179,
195, 203, 227, 261, 264, 438, 440-443,
4/0, 471 ; iii. 40, 45, 367.
Leslie, General David, Lord Newark, ii.
185, 204, 209, 218, 309, 315, 321, 423f,
509 ; iii. 6, 10, 18, 36, 38, 40, 45, 90,
111,118, 120,132,290,430.
Leslie, General-Major, ii. 422, 422f.
Leslie of Newton, Sir John, 123, 168, 361.
Leslie, Colonel, 256.
Leslie, George, minister, iii. 544, 547.
Lesley, Dr. Henry, bishop of Down, 89,
243, 332, 463.
Lesley, Dr. John, bishop of Raphoe, 463,
464 ; ii. 475.
Leslie, Patrick, provost of Aberdeen, 368 ;
iii. 61.
Leslie, Robin, King's page, 215.
Leven, Earl of, v. Leslie.
Levingston v. Livingston.
Leviston, Mr. 77.
Leys v. Burnet, of, 491.
Libbertoun v. Winram.
Lightfoot, Dr. John, iii. 536.
Lilburne, Colonel John, ii. 333 ; iii. 32, 244,
290, 567.
Lincoln, Bishop of, v. Williams.
Lindesay, Earl of 315, 316 ; ii. 56.
Lindores, Lord, 373.
Lindores, Lady, ii. 472, 473.
Lindsay, Lord, 44, 50, 70, 79, 123, 136,
173, 195, 211, 256, 260, 306, 396, 464,
472, 491 ; ii. 41, 58, 83, 85, 89, 204,
209, 226, 263, 303.— Earl of Crawford
and Lindsay, 386. — Thesaurer. 41 8f-
422f, 424f, 443 ; iii. 33-38, 45, 60, 64,
117, 235, 249, 290, 317, 326, 405, 413,
416, 420, 441, 443,- 446, 471, 485, 486.
Lindsay of Belstane, constable of Edin
burgh Castle, 203, 383, 385.
Lindsay, Sir Jerome, commissary, 426.
Lindsay, Alexander, Bishop of Dunkeld,
153, 165, 425.
Lindsay, David, Bishop of Edinburgh, 4,
16, 18, 22, 41, 78, 87, 160, 425, 432,
442, 445, 448, 452, 462, 474.
Lindsay, David, minister of Belhelvie, 97,
135, 146, 148, 170, 253, 360, 363, 368,
492; ii. 84.
Lindsay, George, 426.
Lindsay, John, minister of Carluke, 169.
Lindsay, John, minister of Carstairs, 20,
65, 169, 245, 426.
Lindsay, Patrick, Bishop of Glasgow, 7;
11, 17-22, 108, 156, 168, 288, 424, 440,
447, 448, 462, 481 ; ii. 213.
Lindsay, Roger, ii. 93.
Lindsay, William, minister, 473.
Linlithgow, Earl of, 77, 123, 206, 212,
424; hi. 95, 430, 486.
Linlithgow, Provost of, iii. 456.
Linton, Lord, 124 ; ii. 78.
Little, secretary to the Earl of Strafford,
332
Littleton, Lord Keeper, 292, 301, 315.
Liturgy v. Service-book.
Liturgy, English, 273 ; ii. 221.
Littletour, (Littlejohn ?) John, minister of
Collessie, 373.
Livingstone, Lord, 124.
Livingstone of Kilsyth, iii. 420, 456.
614
INDEX OF NAMES.
Livingstone, Mr. 250. •
Livingstone, John, minister of Stranraer,
64, 146, 250, 252 ; ii. 48, 94 ; iii. 55,
59,— of Ancrum, 61, 91-97, 113, 173,
194, 243, 253, 279-284, 298, 301, 315,
321, 327, 434, 547, 567.
Livingstone, Robert, factor to Lord Mont
gomery, 246-263, 268 ; ii. 6.
Livingstone, William, iii. 558.
Livingstone, William, minister of Lanark,
.39, 83-85, 121, 125, 129, 136, 169, 245.
Lochaber, Laird of, iii. 255.
Lockhart of Lee, Sir James, iii. 35, 36,
401, 446.
Lockhart of Lee, younger, 425.
Lockhart, Allan, 373.
Lockhart, George, commissary of Glasgow,
rector of the College, iii. 148, 150, 156,
212, 238-243, 246, 341, 357, 361.
Lockhart, Robert, iii. 115.
Lockhart, Colonel Sir William, iii. 249,
259, 288, 290, 318, 357, 359, 401, 446.
Lockyer, Nicholas, iii. 177, 214, 354, 401,
407,443.
Loftus, Lord Chancellor of Ireland, 273,
325-327, 337.
Logan, James, minister of Smailham, 426.
Logie, Andrew, minister of Rayne, 376 ;
it 92.
London, Bishop of, iii. 445, v. Juxon.
London, ^Elders, ii. 388, 403. — Ministers,
ii. 367, 377, 411 ; iii. 553.
London, Petition against Episcopacy, 280,
286, 292, 302, 307.— Petition for Pres
byteries and Sessions, ii. 327, 336, 366.
— Petition for Peace, ii. 412, 416.—
Remonstrance, ii. 370, 372.
London, Synod or Province, iii. 1, 307.
Long, Mr. iii. 88.
Loraine, Duke of, ii. 301, 388.
Lome, Archibald Lord, (Marquis of Ar-
gile) 16, 40, 44, 50, 64, 69, 80, 82, 92,
100, 107, 425, 447, 456, 458, 462, 465.
Lome, Archibald Lord, iii. 250, 251, 255,
256, 288, 367, 430, 447, 465.
Lothian, Earl of, 115, 123, 220, 248, 257,
374, 378 ; ii. 105, 115, 124, 163, 262,
417f ; iii. 35, 54, 98, 99, 106, 119, 365,
443,507.
Loudoun, John Earl of, 35, 38, 44-46, 52,
79, 80, 86, 91, 95, 103. 106, 108, 123,
125, 127, 130, 134, 136, 141, 143-147,
171, 174, 180, 195, 200, 211, 216-220,
255, 269, 271, 280, 304, 362, 377, 380,
384, 387,— Chancellor, 390, 396, 455,
464, 473, 480, 486 ; ii. 5, 24, 39-43, 46,
55, 57, 59, 65, 69, 71, 85, 102, 217,
227, 237, 287, 292-297, 302, 323-326,
357, 368, 370, 386, 402, 407, 414, 419f,
424, 440, 447, 449, 476, 484, 487-498,
515; iii. 7, 15, 17, 33-38, 53, 69, 72,
83, 93, 99, 106, 112, 119, 126, 128,
136, 139, 167, 249, 288, 430, 432, 443,
522, 524.
Loudoun, Countess of, ii. 310.
Lour, Lord, ii. 468 ; iii. 54, v. Carnegie.
Lour, Master of, ii. 468.
Love, Christopher, minister, London, iii.
105, 108, 335.
Lovelace, Lord, ii. 99, 135, 136, 317.
Lowrie v. Laurie.
Lumsden, Major, ii. 128, 154, 204.
Lumsden, Sir James, ii. 386, 514 ; iii. 430.
Lucas, Sir Thomas, 342.
Ludlow, Colonel, iii. 441, 445.
Lunilie, John, professor, Aberdeen, 135,
169.
Lundie, Thomas, minister of Rattray, iii.
547, 548.
Luss v. Colquhoun.
Lyle, Lisle, Lord, ii. 347 ; iii. 16.
Lyon King-at-Arms, iii. 472, 486.
Lyon of Auldbar, James, 44, 53, 123, 137,
147, 159, 360.
M
MACALEN, M'Kallamore v. Argyle.
Macalpine, D. minister, iii. 561.
Macaulay of Ardincaple, 195.
Macconochie, iii. 465.
Maccovius, ii. 371.
Macdonald, Alexander, ii. 73, 217, 233,
262, 321, 323, 338, 499, 514; iii. 6.
Macdonald, Colkittoch, ii. 74, 217, 499.
Macdonalds, 82 ; iii. 465.
Macdonald, of Slait, Sir Donald, 425.
Macdougall of Garthland, Sir John, 425 ;
iii. 354, 430.
Macghie of Large, Sir Patrick, 257.
Macgie, Thomas, writer, 373-384.
Macgillinorish, Donald, minister of Inver-
ary, 426.
Macgowan, Alexander, minister of Mous-
wald, 472.
INDEX OF NAMES.
615
Macintoshes, 82.
Mackaill «?. Mackell.
Mackart, iii. 100.
Mackay v. Reay.
Mackay, Alaster, (Alexander Henderson,)
382.
Mackayes, 82.
Mackell, preacher, 144.
Mackell, Hugh, 104, 473; minister of
Edinburgh, ii. 10, 23 ; iii. 56, 173, 184,
194, 210, 232, 279, 296, 545-548.
Mackenzie of Pluscardine, iii. 113.
Mackenzie of Tarbet, Sir John, 123—135, Martin, Dr. George, 97, 425.
Marischall, George Earl, (1593), iii. 402.
Marischall, Earl, 96, 205, 207, 221-224
260, 378, 384, 424; ii. 74, 85, 164,'
234, 261-264, 418f, 442, 468, 470 ; iii!
249, 317, 443, 466.
Marshall, Marschell, Robert, iii. 165, 171.
Marshall, Stephen, minister, London, ii
81, 89, 97, 104, 110, 118, 121-123, 134^
140, 145, 148, 165, 184, 198, 220, 230,
235, 260, 304, 343, 415 ; iii. 17, 302,
306, 326.
Martin, regent, iii. 316.
Mackenzie, Murdoch, minister of Inverness
369 ; iii. 486.
Mackenzie, Murdoch, parson of Dingwall,
.426.
Mackenzie, Thomas, minister of Tarbet,
135, 168, 426.
Mackenzies, 82.
Maclachlan, Archibald, minister of Luss,
iii. 435.
Macleans, 82 ; ii. 74.
Macleland, John, ministerof Kirkcudbright,
146, 250, 252, 255 ; ii. 48, 92, 94 ; iii.
55, 97.
Macleod of Herries, John, 425.
Maclure, Dr. 387-
Macmath, John, minister, 164.
Mac ward, Macquard, Robert, minister of
Glasgow, iii. 240, 241, 285, 314, 326,
368, 397, 399, 404, 467.
Maderty, Lord, ii. 233.
Magnus, Maine, v. Mayne.
Mainwaring, Mannering, Dr. 282, 286.
Malach, Alexander, ii. 508, 512.
Malach, John, ii. 508.
Malcolme, John, ii. 472.
Maitland, Charles, of Halton, iii. 41 6.
Maitland, John, parson of Eddilston, 426.
Maitland, Captain, ii. 422f.
Manchester, Earl of, ii. 83, 103, 112, 126,
130, 133, 139, 142, 148, 151-154, 158,
166-172, 176-181, 185, 188, 193, 201-
204, 209, 216, 224, 227-238, 244- 247,
359, 487, 501 ; iii. 359, 442.
Mandeville, Lord, 260, 290, 293, 295, 304.
Manton,Dr.Thomas,iii.355,442, 484, 553.
Mar, Earl of, 77, 123, 145, 195, 354, 378 ;
ii. 468.
Martin, James, ministerof Peterhead, 146,
492.
Martin, Robert, minister of Ettrick, 472.
Mary, Queen of Scots, 51.
Mason, George, burgess of Ayr, 472.
Massie, General, ii. 226, 291, 300, 308,
317; iii. 16, 101, 107, 134, 137, 155.
426, 431.
Mauchlin, iii. 48, 53.
Maurice, Prince, ii. 114, 151, 181, 193,
206, 213, 215, 244, 268, 272, 278, 287,
324, 504.
Maxwell of Pollock, Sir George, iii. 54,
112, 243, 246, 276, 322, 351, 373, 433,
446,448.
Maxwell of Pollock, Sir John, 37, 425.
Maxwell, Gabriel, minister of Dundonald,
97; ii. 69 ; iii. 53, 112, 144, 296.
Maxwell, James, 213 ; iii. 323, 382.
Maxwell, James, keeper of the black rod,
272, 286, 296, 316.
Maxwell, John, minister of Glasgow, 13,
19, 29, 63, 106, 122, 133, 228, 426.
Maxwell, John, Bishop of Ross, 4-8, 16,
22, 31, 65, 70-78, 93, 97, 112, 135, 138,
148, 150, 156, 161, 208, 241, 294, 428-
430, 434, 436-440, 447, 452, 464; ii.
116, 125, 207, 221, 373, 377, 474.
Maxwell, Patrick, 162, 288.
Maxwell, Robert, 561.
Maxwell, William, minister of Dunbar,
150, 164.
Maxwell, William, minister of Stow, 426.
Mayerne, Sir Theodore, M. D. ii. 213.
Maynard, Serjeant, 319-325,330-335, 342-
344.
Mayne, Magnus, Dr. Robert, iii. 603 ; ii.
8,14,72.
Marezius, professor at Groningen, iii. 70, Mayne, Thomas, iii. 435.
311, 390 Mazarin, Cardinal, iii. 69, 292, 439, 451.
616
INDEX OF NAMES.
Meade, Matthew, iii. 553.
Meath, Bishop of, 332.
Meldrum, Sir John, ii, 126, 152, 156, 158,
167, 191, 224.
Meldrum, Robert, 150, 190, 355, 398 ; ii.
81, 90, 99, 103, 104, 127.
Melos, General, ii. 44.
Melville, Mr. iii. 275.
Melville, Andrew, 361 ; iii. 402.
Melville, Ephraim, minister of Linlithgow ;
iii. 487.
Melville, Thomas, minister of Cadder, iii.
195.
Menzies, Major, ii. 422.
Menzies, John, professor, Aberdeen, iii.
243, 282, 364, 568.
Menzies, William, minister of Kenmure,
147, 472.
Meredith, Sir Robert, 331.
Mernes, D. (John), minister of Carnbee,
ii. 53.
Merrick, ii. 227-
Middlesex, Earl of, iii. 539.
Middleton, Countess of, iii. 485.
Middleton, John, Earl of, ii. 112, 118, 215,
222-224, 227, 309, 345, 363, 512, 515 ;
iii. 40, 45, 48, 95, 105, 117, 120, 129,
251, 255, 409, 421, 443, 447, 455, 463,
465f 469, 471, 485, 457 App. 567.
Mildmay, Sir Harie, ii. 492 ; iii. 471.
Milton, John, the poet, 366 ; ii. 499 ; iii.
443.
Mitchell, David, minister of Edinburgh,
16, 78, 89, 108, 137, 148, 425, 463, 473,
474; iii. 488.
Mitchell, James, 13, 246, 268, 287; ii.
219, 380, 392,— his Son, 219.
Mitchell, Thomas, minister of Turreff,
146, 492.
Mitchellson, Dr. John, minister of Brunt-
island, 425.
Moffat-well, iii. 373.
Monck, General George, iii. 251-255, 259,
276, 281, 295, 305, 317, 398, 428, 430,
438-442,— Duke of Albemarle, 444, 446,
465, 563.
Monck, Nicholas, Provost of Eton, iii. 401.
Moncreiffof Moncreiff, Sir John, iii. 54,567-
Moncreiff, Alexander, minister of Scoony,
iii. 446.
Moncreiff, John, minister, iii. 547.
Monro, David, regent in the College of
Glasgow, ii. 37, 87.
Monro, Dr. David, parson of Kinnuchar, 6,
94, 97, 425.
Monro, George, iii. 100, 255.
Monro, George, (Chancellor of Ross), 426.
Monro, Colonel, 192, 200, 210, 247, 260,
383 ; ii. 73, 164, 224, 232, 238, 240,
264, 375, 470.
Montague, Colonel, ii. 286 ; iii. 426.
Montague, Dr. 248, 282, 286, 358.
Montague, Walter, 295.
Monteith, Robert, minister,, 164.
Montgomery, Lady, 269, 284. 286, 306,
353; ii. 34, 35, 369 ; iii. 119.
Montgomery, Hugh Lord, 13, 28, 33, 125,
137, 147, 178, 200, 201, 214, 228, 236,
244, 246, 256, 263, 268, 289, 354,
379, 389, 473, 486 ; ii. 3, 6, 11, 18, 27,
34-37, 41, 43, 67, 161, 218, 226, 234,
322, 3G9, 446 ; iii. 317, 366, 420, 430.
Montgomery, Master of, iii. 366.
Montgomery of Hazlehead, ii. 373; iii.
420, 456, 464.
Montgomery of Skelmorlv, Sir Robert,
13, 170, 425.
Montgomery, Sir Alexander, Colonel, ii.
49.
Montgomery, Sir Henry, ii. 219.
Montgomery, Sir James, 281, 332, 337.
Montgomery, Colonel Robert, ii. 204,
210, 300 ; iii. 117, 431.
Montgomery, Lieut .-Colonel, ii. 204, 210.
Montnorris, Lord, 273, 325-333.
Montreuil, French Ambassador, ii. 388.
Montrose, James Earl and Marquis of,
44, 70, 86, 91, 93, 121, 123, 132, 136,
145, 168, 170, 194-197, 205-11, 22O-
224, 247, 256, 262, 266, 374-379, 381-
387, 391, 394, 472; ii. 35, 60, 67, 73,
116, 124, 138, 141, 150, 164, 172, 176,
181, 188, 196, 215-217, 225, 233, 238,
244, 261-264, 269, 275, 280, 297, 301,
305, 309, 314-316, 321-323, 343, 345,
362, 377, 399, 420, 448, 467-469, 501-
514 ; iii. 6, 31, 40, 48, 72, 78, 81, 86,
88, 101, 113, 196, 195, 460, 512.
Montrose, Second Marquis, iii. 394, 420,
430, 443, 456, 466, 471, 486.
Montrose, Marchioness of, 466.
Moore, Dr. 325, 326.
Moray, Morray, v. Murray.
Morerius, Mordehus, ii. 115, 155, 165,
179, 184, 188, 193.
Morgan, Colonel, iii. 255, 446.
INDEX OF NAMES.
617
Morley, Dr. iii. 441, 444, 484.
Morton, Earl of, 7, 64, 70, 74, 77, 219,
263, 340, 386, 390, 397, 424, 452; ii!
35, 46, 67, 77, 80.
Morton, Andrew, minister of Carmunnock,
iii. 195.
Morton, Arthur, minister, ii. 49.
Morton, William, minister, iii. 561.
Moms, Alexander, of Geneva, iii. 6, 101
311.
Moulin, in Sedan, ii. 180, 197, 239.
Mouline, Muline, physician, ii. 428-f-.
Mowat, Matthew, minister of Kilmarnock,
ii. 69 ; iii. 58, 142, 144, 487.
Mowat, Roger, advocate, 381.
Moysley, Dr. 200, 204, 271.
Moysely, Edward, judge, iii. 206, 209,
217, 220.
Moysely, Lieutenant, ii. 137.
Mubbot, iii. 350.
Mucklejohn, ii. 125.
Munne, Duncan, iii. 134.
Munro v. Monro.
Mure of Glanderston, iii. 112, 244.
Mure of Rowallan, Sir William, 178, 425 ;
ii. 42.
Mure of Rowallan, Sir William, younger,
14, 178 ; ii. 101, 121, 329 ; iii. 535, 543.
Mure, Thomas, minister of Cumbra, 170.
Murecraft, William, iii. 214, 379, 445 App.
Murray, Earl of, 51, 123, 205 ; iii. 366.
Murray of Polmais, 51.
Murray, Andrew, minister of Abdie, v.
Balvaird, Lord.
Murray, Annas, ii. 507.
Murray, Frederick, ii. 508.
Murray, George, ii. 508.
Murray, James, Warriston's clerk, ii. 54.
Murray, John, minister of Methven, ii. 507,
508,511,512; iii. 446, 547.
Murray, John, minister of Strathmiglo,
472.
Murray, Lieutenant-Colonel, 422-f.
Murray, Mary, ii. 508, 512.
Murray, Margaret, (Mrs. Geo. Gillespie,)
ii. 502-511.
Murray, Mungo, ii. 35.
Murray, Robert, Commissary of Stirling,
426.
Murray, Robert, minister of Methven,
129, 383, 472; ii. 51, 84, 447, 502-512.
Murray, William, of the bed-chamber, 393,
396 ; ii. 5, 35, 48, 58, 66, 124, 125, 278,
VOL. III.
394, 401, 407-409, 477, 509-512 ; iii.
94, 99.
Murray, Mrs. William, ii. 265, 275.
Murray, Bishop of, v. Guthrie, 42.
Musicians, Scottish, iii. 556.
N
NAIRNE, Nerne, minister of Carmichael,
169.
Napier, Neper, Lord, 50, 145, 266, 379,
381-383, 440, 448, 452, 458, 462.
Napier, Master of, 379.
Napier of Kilmahew, iii. 420, 456.
Napier, Mr. ii. 495.
Nasmith, James, minister of Hamilton, iii.
56, 143, 296, 317, 352, 447, 467, 487.
Naylor, James, iii. 429.
Neill, Dr. Archbishop of York, 47, 270,
Nevay, Neve, Nevoy, Knave, John, minister
of Loudon or Newmills, ii. 10, 69, 94 ;
iii. 53, 112, 123, 145, 147, 543.
Nevill, Philip, iii. 533.
Newark, Lord, v. Leslie.
Newburgh, Lord, 341.
Newcastle, Earl of, 352; ii. 43, 58, 66,
100, 104, 112, 108, 155, 163, 167, 170,
176—Marquis, 201, 203 ; iii. 567.
Newcomen, Matthew, ii. 110, 415.
Newport, Lord, 72, 351.
Newton v. Leslie.
Nicolas, Secretary, ii. 66, 113, 124; iii.
442.
Nicoll, John, writer, 128.
Nicolson, Robert, commissary of Edin
burgh, 426.
Nicolson, Sir Thomas, 65, 381.
Nicolson, Thomas, Clerk to the General
Assembly, 128, 129.
Nicolson, Thomas, advocate, 381.
Nisbet, Neisbet, Alexander, minister of
Irvine, iii. 134, 135, 236, 281, 317,
420.
Nisbet, John, advocate, 382.
Nithsdale, Earl of, 70, 193, 260 ; ii. 74,
116, 124, 138, 164.
Nivein of Dort, iii. 91.
Niving of Monkridding, 473.
Norfolk, Duke of, ii. 125.
North, Lord, iii. 539.
Norton, Thomas, iii. 526.
4i
618
INDEX OF NAMES.
Northumberland, Earl of, 327, 341 ; ii.
83, 99, 107, 114, 133, 141, 487 ; Hi. 19.
Norwall, J. minister of Balfron, 472.
Novations, ii. 46, 51, 69-71, 76, 94, 427 ;
Hi. 529.
Nye, Philip, ii. 81, 89, 97, 99, 110, 120,
121, 131, 137, 145, 149, 199, 201, 218,
236; Hi. 407, 552.
0
Oath, Coronation, 477 ; Hi. 128.
Oath imposed on Scots in England and
Ireland, 279, 337-339.
Oath, Montrose, &c. 1644; ii. 141, 150.
Oath proposed in 1648, iii. 34, 37, 40.
Oath Renouncing Charles II. iii. 350.
Oath of Allegiance and Supremacy, iii.
461, 463.
Ochiltrie, Lord, iii. 40.
Ogilvie, Ogilbie, of Airly v. Airly.
Ogilvie, Lord, ii. 60, 67, 124, 141, 164,
314 : iii. 95, 117, 317.
Ogilvie of Banff, 204, 206, 321.
Ogilvie of Boyne, ii. 60.
Ogilvie of Inchmartin, Sir Patrick, ii. 225.
Ogle, Captain, ii. 137.
Ogston, William, minister of Collington,76.
Okey, ^Colonel, iii. 427.
Oliphant of Gask, ii. 225.
Oliphant, William, minister of Dunferm-
line, iii. 547.
O'Neil, Earl of Tyrone, 336.
O'Neil, Colonel, 257.
Orange, William Prince of, 190, 288, 294,
298, 312, 349-353 ; ii. 57, 82, 143, 150,
199, 200, 225, 228, 293, 308, 322, 338,
437, 472, 501 ; iii. 73-79, 83-90, 256,
387, 439, 451, 461 App. 507, 509, 520,
522, 523.
Orange, Mary, Princess of, 298, 316, 351 ;
iii. 74, 86, 439, 445, 509.
Orange, Princess Dowager of, iii. 86, 90,
507, 509.
Orbiston, Lord, v. Hamilton.
Ordinance against Blasphemies, ii. 396,
398, 402, 411.
Ordinance for the Covenant, ii. 409, 411.
Ordinance for Planting, iii. 282, 300, 305,
316.
Ordination, ii. 139, 148, 159, 168, 196,
213, 221, 223, 377 ; iii. 284.
Orknay, Bishop of, t?. Graham. Sydserff.
Orleans, Duke of, ii. 2.03. 32H, 3<;:{.
Ormond, Lady, iii. 445.
Ormond, Marquis of, ii. 103, 233, 301, 374.
388, 401, 405, 411 ; iii. 100, 103, 439,
442.
Osburne, John, 472.
Osburne, Lieutenant, iii. 323, 447.
Oswald, Osall, minister of Pencaitland,
371,— of Aberdeen, ii. 96 ; iii. 184.
Owen, Dr. John, iii. 343, 354, 596, 407,
443, 553.
Oxenbridge, Independent minister, iii. 17^.
Oxford, University of, ii. 386, 393.
Oxford, Parliament at, ii. 80, 137, 1.%.
140, 244.
Overton, Major-General, iii. 290, 427, 441 ,
445.
Overtures of Union, iii. 182-185, 254.
Paget, John, 12, 357 ; ii. 184.
Paget, Lord, 290, 345.
Paine, Mr. 483.
Palatine, Prince Elector, 10, 11, 65, 89,
224, 312, 313, 316, 357, 385, 387; ii.
62, 221, 473.
Palmer, Herbert, ii. Ill, 118, 140, 145,
148, 184, 220, 236, 313, 404, 415.
Palmer, M. P. 334-337.
Panmure, Earl of, 370 ; ii. 506.
Panter, Dr. Patrick, Professor, St. An
drews, 93, 97, 148, 169. 361, 425.
Park, John, minister of Stranraer, iii. 140.
Parker, Mr. 529 ; ii. 165.
Parian, James, ii. 404.
Parliament, Long, 261, 272-353 ; ii. 150,
190, 360, 378; iii. 9, 14, 46, 51, 63,
244, 427, 437, 440, 446.
Parliament, (1653), iii. 289 ; (1660), iii.
405, 469, 473.
Parliament, Irish, iii. 470.
Parliament, Scottish, 95, 103, 202, 223.
376-398 ; ii. 352, 420-425 ; iii. 5, 35-
40, 46, 77, 97-99, 107. 115, 121, 126,
128, (1661) 454, 463-469.
Parseus, David, ii. 4(>4.
Parrie, Mr. 336.
Pastor, his office, ii. 110, 120, 129.
Paterson, John, minister of Foveran, 49*2,
— Bishop of Ross, iii. 486.
INDEX OF NAMES.
619
Paterson, Thomas, 123, 472 ; iii. 448
Patronage, 113, 237-241 ; ii. 47, 48, 94,
450-460 ; iii. 414.
Patullo, George, minister, iii. 563.
Peace, (1639), Conferences, 216-219.
Peace, (1640), 259, 263, 268, &c.
Peace, (1644 &c.), ii. 142, 149, 151, 154,
167, 172, 176, 178, 187, 217, 222, 238,
241, 244, 246, 251, 292, 297, 309, 328,
337, 344, 348, 350, 377, 386-395, 401,
406-411, 416.
Pearce, Pierce, iii. 400, 406, 444.
Pearson of Southhall, Alexander, advocate,
129, 381,— Judge, iii. 249.
Peebles, Hugh, minister, iii. 123.
Pembroke, Earl of, 11, 204, 296, 315, 352 ;
ii. 155, 238, 436.
Penn, Admiral William, iii. 291.
Pennimor, laird of, iii. 435.
Pennington, Admiral, 288.
Pennyman, Sir William, 321.
Percy, Harie, ii.125, 277; iii. 88, 464, App.
Perne, minister, ii. 415.
Perth, Earl of, 123, 452, 458, 462 ; ii. 448.
Perth, Articles of, 119, 158, 176-183,
Pest, ii. 275, 314, 323, 343. 417 ; iii. 5, 6,
9, 18, 41, 52, 62.
Petavius, Jesuit, 358.
Peters, Hugh, ii. 165, 333, 345 ; iii. 407,
443.
Petition of 800 Ministers, 286, 292, 299.
Petition for Episcopacy, 293, 296.
Petrie, Alexander, minister of Rhind, 147,
253 ; ii. 53 ; iii. 69, 71, 72, 80.
Philorth v. Eraser.
Philips, Henry, ii. 110.
Pickering, Pikering, ii. 66, 286.
Pierce, Bishop of Bath, 286; iii. 400,
406.
Pierrepoint, ii. 487, 488 ; iii. 16, 441.
Pitcairne, Andrew, ii. 473.
Pitcairne of Forther, ii. 473.
Pitcairn, Patrick, ii. 418.
Pluralities, 373, 374.
Pluscardie v. Mackenzie.
Poinz, Pointz, Colonel, ii. 316, 317, 375.
Pollock, Nether, — v. Maxwell.
Pollock, baillie James, iii. 348.
Pont, Robert, minister of St. Cuthbert's,
iii. 527, 528.
Poole, Matthew, minister, iii. 553.
Poomeese, Poolmais, v Murray.
Porter, Charles, 259.
Porter, James, iii. 246, 362, 448.
Porterfield of Duchal, 68 ; iii. 366.
Porter-field, Captain George, ii. 207.
Porter-field, Provost George, 107, 244 ; ii.
5 ; iii. 123, 272, 545.
Portland, Lord, 333.
Potter, Dr. 286.
Power, Powrie, 378.
Power, Gilbert, minister, ii. 51-53.
Power, James, 367.
Prayer for the King, iii. 252, 253, 276,
281, 295, 305, 321.
Praying meetings, 249-255, 356, 358-363,
369, 371 ; ii. 46.
Preachers, Itinerant, ii. 393.
President of the Session v. Spottiswood.
Preston, Mr., agent to the Duchess of
Hamilton, iii. 483.
Price, William, ii. 110.
Pride, Colonel, iii. 443.
Prideaux, Mr., ii. 237 ; iii. 533.
Prideaux, Humphrey, 309.
Primrose, Archibald, Clerk Register, iii.
419.
Primrose, James, clerk of the Privy Coun
cil, 34, 45 ; iii. 65.
Prince, 316 ; iii. 51.
Pringle of Whitebank, iii. 547.
Privy Seal v. Roxburgh.
Provost of Glasgow, ii. 189 ; iii. 150 v.
Anderson, Bell, Cunningham, Graham,
Porterfield, Stewart, Wallace.
Prynne, 273, 277; ii. 315 ; iii. 400, 427.
Psalms, Metrical Version of, iii. 3, 8, 59,
97, 451 App.; 525-556.
Public Resolutions, iii. 107, 125, 145, 147,
169, 213. 321, 335-339, et passim.
Pulleyn, John, archdeacon, iii. 527.
Pym, John, 272, 296, 301, 317, 319, 324,
331, 335, 338, 351 ; ii. 118, 133, 216.
Q
Quakers, iii. 323, 357, 429.
Queen of Bohemia, ii. 64 ; iii. 41, 86, 461,
463 App.; 509.
Queen of Sweden, Christina, 398 ; iii. 256,
301, 320, 450, 472.
Queensberry, Earl of, 123, 194, 256, 425 ;
ii. 85, 314.
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INDEX OF NAMES.
R
Baban, Edward, printer, 438.
Rae, Lord, v. Reay.
Rae, John, 162.
Raes. 205, 222.
Rainbow, Rambone, Dr. ii. 148.
Rainsborough, Colonel, iii. 32.
Rait, Rate, William, minister of Brechin,
iii. 182, 248, 279.
Raith, Reth, Lady, ii. 509.
Ralston of Ralston, lieut.-colonel, iii. 125.
Ralston, , 328, 329.
Ramsay of Balmain. Sir Gilbert, 492.
Ramsay, Colonel, 270.
Ramsay, Andrew, minister of Edinburgh,
6, 18, 23, 34, 39, 52, 64, 76, 78, 82,
101, 123, 127, 129, 135-139 144, 147,
154-156, 248, 252, 254, 359, 362-365,
386, 425, 463, 472 ; ii. 45, 85, 260, 389;
iii. 34, 63, 92, 96, 105.
Ramsay, Andrew, provost of Edinburgh,
iii. 366, 389.
Ramsay, James, minister of Linlithgow, iii.
216, 220, 222, 278, 313, 456, 487.
Ramsay, Matthew, minister of Old Kil-
patrick, iii. 456, 561.
Ramsay, Robert, minister of Dundonald,
245,— of Glasgow, 248, 368; ii. 3-5,
8, 10, 15, 20, 23, 37, 45, 48, 54,
86, 116, 155, 161, in, 173, 176, 189,
195, 211-213, 231, 270, 295, 321, 333,
392, 415, 427; iii. 39, 62, 110, 115,
122, 142-147, 150, 152-156, 165, 168,
207, 216, 238, 312, 448.
Ramsay, Thomas, minister of Dumfries,
44,426.
Ramsay, Thomas, minister of Mordington,
iii. 447.
Rankine, Robert, regent in college of Edin
burgh, 64, 91, 110.
Ranulagh, Lord, 318, 323, 327, 328.
Ratcliffe, Sir George, 273, 281, 282, 318,
325, 337, 341, 342.
Rathband, William, minister, ii. 144.
Rattray, John, minister, iii. 563.
Rattray, Dr. Sylvester, iii. 373.
Rattray, Thomas,
Read, Colonel, ii. 132, 133.
Reading, Redding, Ridding, ii. 57, 58, 65,
241.
Reay, Mackay Lord, 70, 465 ; ii. 138, 141.
Register, Lord Clerk, v. Gibson. Hay.
Johnston. Primrose.
Registers «. Church.
Reid, John, v. Lauderdale, iii. 154.
Reid, William, v. Balcarras, iii. 154.
Remonstrance by Assembly of Divines, ii.
325-327, 333/336, 365, 366.
Remonstrance of Commission of Assembly
(1643) ii. 76; iii. 22, 23, 131.
Remonstrance, English, against Episcopacy,
286, 292, 296, 299, 312, 3 1 3. :} 1 7-319.
Remonstrance (Independent), ii. 318, 327,
328, 344.
Remonstrance, Irish, 273.
Remonstrance of Glasgow Synod, iii. 108.
112-119.
Remonstrance, SeaforthX ii. 354, 362, 363,
Remonstrance, (Western) and Remon
strants, iii. 108-116, 124, 128-147, 153-
171, 176, 214, 238, 244, 250, 299, 408,
446, 447, 567.
Rescissory Act 1661, iii. 458, 586.
Reynolds, Dr. Edward, ii. 155, 236 ; iii.
391, 400, 442, 484.
Richardson, Robert, Dumfries, 472.
Richelieu, Cardinal, 3, 304, 310 ; ii. 10, 62.
Richmond v. Lennox.
Rigg of Athernie, William, 253, 361, 381 ;
11. 50, 94,
Rippon, Treaty of, 262, 271, 353.
Ritchie, Adam, iii. 484.
Ritchie, John, Assembly Clerk, 129.
Rivet, Dr. Andrew, 9, 92, 351, 357 ; ii.
115, 155, 165, 169, 189, 197, 201, 239,
251, 265, 275, 290, 327, 362 ; iii. 67,
72, 462464 App., 521.
Rivius, , ii. 371.
Rizzio, David, 51.
Roberton, James, of Bedlay, ii. 413 ; iii.
420, 455, 472.
Roberton, Margaret ii. 392.
Roberts, a soldier, ii. 227.
Roberts, Francis, minister, St. Dunstans.
London, ii. 333, 345, 358, 359.
Robertson, Mr., 112.
Robertson, in Kirkaldy, iii. 414.
Robertson, James, iii. 547.
Robertson, John, minister of Dundee, iii.
248,279.
Robertson, John, minister of Perth, 147.
150, 172, 383.
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621
Robertson, Richard, regent, iii. 150, 223,
239, 240.
Robertson, Thomas, in Saltcoats, iii. 435.
Robisone v. Robertson.
Roborough, Henry, scribe, ii. 108 ; iii. 539.
Rodger, Mr., iii. 221.— William, 561.
Rodger, Ralph, minister, iii. 383, 384, 434.
Roe, James, merchant, 246, 267.
Roe, Sir Thomas, 313.
Rolles, Daniel, ii. 289, 290,— His father,
ii. 289.
Rollock, Andrew, minister of Dunse, 168.
Rollock, Henry, minister of Edinburgh,
6, 8, 16, 23, 52, 64, 76-79, 108, 121,
127, 136, 144, 146, 163, 213, 243, 255,
355, 359, 363, 375, 397, 463 ; ii. 30,
463.
Ross, Lord, iii. 35, 366,
Ross, Rosa, John, iii. 403.
Ross, James, ii. 161.
Ross, Bishop of, v. Maxwell.
Rothes, Rothus, Countess of, 354.
Rothes, John Earl of, 14, 33, 40, 44, 47,
50, 53, 70, 79, 86, 91, 100, 121-130,
135, 141-150, 155, 168, 211, 216, 220,
255, 266, 269, 279, 285, 289, 304, 353-
356, 381, 388, 464, 473, 491 ; ii. 261,
440, 447, 515.
Rothes, John Earl, son (afterwards Duke)
of, iii. 367.
Rouse, Francis, ii. 120, 157, 198, 237,
280, 293, 312, 329-335, 359, 379, 388;
iii. 197, 231, 325, 332, 338, 344-347,
354, 532-556.
Row, James, minister, ii. 92 ; iii. 61.
Row, John, minister of Aberdeen, ii. 329,
502 ; iii. 54, 244, 403, 543.
Row, John, minister of Carnock, 127, 129,
175.
Row, Robert, minister, iii. 547.
Row, Samuel, minister of Sprouston, ii.
315.
Row, William, minister, iii. 547.
Rowallan v. Mure.
Rowat, James, minister of Kilmarnock, iii.
487.
Roxburgh, Lady, ii. 105, 436.
Roxburgh, Earl of, Privy Seal, .25, 37, 40-
50, 5i61, 64, 69, 74, 80, 123, 126,386,
390, 424, 429, 438, 446, 448, 454, 457-
459, 463 ; ii. 59, 67, 77, 103, 436.
Rudyerd, Sir Benjamin, 307 ; iii. 537.
Rule, Robert, minister of Stirling, iii. 283,
315, 356.
Rupert, Prince, ii 56, 65, 105. — Duke of
Cumberland, 138, 141, 143, 151-158,
163, 166, 170, 172, 176, 181, 185, 191,
193-196, 199-206, 213, 216, 218, 224,
226, 240, 241, 244, 268, 272, 286, 308.
315, 317, 324, 504; iii. 88, 100.
Russel, William, minister of Kilbirnie, 13,
104, 473 ; ii. 10 ; iii. 115, 136, 279.
414, 561.
Rutherford, Captain, iii. 457 App.
Rutherford, Andrew, minister of Eccles,
iii. 284, 327.
Rutherford, Samuel, minister of Anwoth, 8,
77, 79, 85, 88, 134, 146, 171.— St. An
drews, 252, 266, 364, 480, 486, 491 ;
ii. 27, 45, 49, 55, 65, 70, 76, 85, 89, 94,
96, 98, 104, 106, 111, 117, 120, 123,
159, 161, 165, 175, 177, 199, 212, 251,
277, 290, 311, 321, 380, 385, 392, 397.
404, 406, 444, 446, 481, 516 ; iii. 12,
33, 35, 82, 94, 96, 110, 123, 126, 199,
214, 241, 248, 279, 296, 303, 306, 316,
354, 365, 375-381, 387, 404, 418, 447,
467, 541-543, 545.
Ruthven, Reuthen, Riven, General, Earl
of Forth, 219, 259 ; ii. 56, 124, 142.
151, 154-156, 181, 240, 437.
Rutland, Earl of, ii. 89, 133, 299, 302.
Ryley, scout-master, ii. 132.
SADAEL, SADELL, ii. 115, 155, 165, 184,
188.
St. Andrew's, University of, iii. 316, 365,
456.
St. John, Oliver, Solicitor-General, 349 ;
ii. 113, 133; iii. 471.
St. Johnston v. Perth.
Salisbury, Earl of, ii. 99, 107, 155 ; iii. 539.
Salmasius, Somais, iii. 67, 256.
Salmon, Schoolmaster, 337.
Saltonstall, Robert, iii. 206, 209.
Sanders, James, bookseller, 24.
Sandilands, Mr. iii. 240.
Sandilands, James, comissary, Aberdeen,
124, 128, 426.
Sandilands, Thomas, 124, 128, 129.
Savill, Mr. 373.
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INDEX OF NAMES.
Sarum v. Salisbury.
Saville, Savill, Lord, 304, 305, 327, 335,
348, 349; ii. 281, 284, 294, 303, 310-
313, 487-498.
Saville, Sir Henry, 227.
Savoy, Duke of, iii. 292.
Schurman, Anna Maria, iii. 104.
Scinder, Mr. 281.
Scobell, Henry, clerk of council, iii. 355.
Scot, John, minister, iii. 547.
Scot of Clcrkington, Sir William, iii. 307-
Scot of Harden, Sir William, 425.
Scot of Highchester v. Tarras.
Scot of Scotstarbet, Sir John, 111, 368,
370, 425 ; ii. 88 ; iii. 443.
Scot, James, minister of Tungland, 426 ;
iii. 462.
Scot, John, minister of Glenluce, iii. 436.
Scot, Thomas, iii. 359, 431, 437, 441.
'Scot, William, minister of Couper, ii. 49.
Scotscraig v. Erskine of.
Scougal, Scougle, Patrick, iii. 365.
Scrimgeour, Dr. Henry, minister of St.
FihWs, 168, 425.
Scrimgeour of Dudhope, Sir John, con
stable of Dundee, 37, 372, v. Dudhope.
Scroggie, Dr. Alexander, minister of Aber
deen, 248, 373.
Seaforth, Earl of, 70, 221, 252, 375 ; ii.
225, 234,263, 314, 356, 362, 363, 468;
iii. 101, 250, 255,288.
Seaman, Lazarus, ii. 110, 148, 184, 236,
415 ; iii. 227.
Seatoun, Lord, ii. 6.
Seaton, Sir John, 72 ; ii. 57, 92, 210 ; iii.
174.
Secretary of State for Scotland, v. Acheson.
Alexander. Lanerick. Lauderdale.
Sedgwick, Mr. iii. 552.
Selden, John, 303, 307, 308 ; ii. 129, 198,
265 312
Selkirk, Earl of, iii. 430, 443, Duke of
Hamilton, 446.
Semple, Lord, 65, 238 ; ii. 6.
Semple, Harry, iii. 357-
Semple, Hugh, Jesuit, iii. 390.
Semple, John, provost of Dumbarton, 137,
195, 381 ; ii. 42.
Semple, John, minister of Carsphairn, iii.
446,545.
Semple, Robert, minister of Lesmahago, iii.
357.
Semple, William, regent in the College of
Glasgow, ii. 37, 87, 290.
Service-Book, 1, 4, 12, 15-23, et passim,
65, 87, 112, 119, 147, 152, 429-432,
436, 438-461, 464, 466, 471, 478 ; ii.
117, 240.
Seuster, Sheuster, Robina, iii. 290.
Sey and Seale, Viscount, 199, 270, 275, 293,
301-305 ; ii. 85, 107, 117, 136, 139,
141, 146, 220, 236, 248, 294, 303, 311,
344, 368, 487-489, 492 ; iii. 16, 539.
Sharp, James, minister of Orail, iii. 137
153, 212, 279, 281, 315-317, 324, 327',
330-357, 361-366, 386, 395, 396, 398,
401, 404-411, 414-421, 431, 440, 444,
448, 453, 454, 457, 458, 460, 461, 465,
468, 471-474, 477, 481-487, 563, 568.
Sharp, James, minister of Govan, 104,
106, 171,— of Paisley, 172 ; ii. 4, 8, 85,
444.
Sharpe, Dr. John, principal of the College
of Edinburgh, 64.
Sharpe, Patrick, minister of East Kilbryde,
237,238; iii. 136.
Sharp, William, iii. 416, 580.
Sheldon, Bishop of London, iii. 444, 484.
Shepherd, Mr. minister, 168.
Sibbald, Dr., Aberdeen, 135, 248, 365.
Silverton-hill, Sillerton, v. Hamilton of.
Simmons, Matthew, printer, iii. 553.
Simonds, Mr., 311.
Simons, Lieutenant-Colonel, iii. 361.
Simpson, James, minister, iii. 19.
Simpson, James, minister of Bathgate, 252.
Simpson, James, minister of Airth, iii.
177, 257, 352, 353, 447, 568.
Simpson, Matthias, minister of Stirling,
iii. 315, 352, 456.
Simpson, Patrick, minister of Stirling, 161;
iii. 19.
Simpson, Sydrach, ii. 145, Simonds, 311.
Sincerfe v. Sydserfe.
Sinclair, Lady, ii. 4.
Sinclair, Sinklur, Lord, 123, 210, 374 ; ii.
- 45, 85, 100, 322, 509 ; iii. 36, 101, 448.
Sinclair of Roslin, Sir William, 425.
Sinclair, George, regent in the College of
Glasgow, iii. 285, 313.
Sindercomb, iii. 358.
Skelmorlie v. Montgomery of.
Skippon, General, ii. 126, 227, 235 ; iii.
16. -
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Skular, Edward, convict, 383
Slingsby, 342.
Smeaton, Thomas, principal of the College
of Glasgow, iii. 402.
Smart, Peter, prebend of Durham, 294.
Smith, Hew, iii. 240.
Smith, James, ii. 515.
Smith of Grothill, Sir John, 37, 44, 46,
84, 397, 472 ; ii. 89, 217, 345, 385.
Smith, John, minister of Burntisland and
Edinburgh, 269, 295, 339 ; ii. 487, 500,
516 ; iii. 21, 52, 53, 55, 57, 60, 94, 136,
137, 153, 171, 179, 189, 214, 218-220,
281, 296, 307, 353, 414, 420, 544-546,
563.
Smith, Dr. Peter, ii. 110.
Smith, Robert, iii. 382.
Smythe, George, judge, iii. 206, 209, 210,
318.
Socinians, Socinianism, ii. 191.
Solicitor-General, 349 ; ii. 117, 133, 141,
145, 220, 235, 236, 280, 368, 487 ; iii.
16, v. St. John.
Somerdyke, 294, v. Embassy, Dutch.
Somerville, Alexander, minister, Dolphin-
ton, 121, 363.
Somerville, William, iii. 246.
Sorrie, iii. 439.
Southampton, Earl of, ii. 244, 246, 247,
249, 260, 488.
Southesk, Earl of, 50, 81, 91, 100, 123,
129, 394, 425, 452, 458, 462 ; ii. 46,
68 ; iii. 6, 54.
Southook, Laird of, 473.
Spalato, bishop of, 248.
Spang, William, minister at Campvere, 2,
10 15, 30, 62, 69, 71, 73, 88, 96,
109, 112, 118, 184-225, 243, 247, 355,
358,388; ii. 2,10, 38, 42, 61-65,72,
75, 81, 87, 101, 107, 127, 128, 143, 163,
165, 169, 171, 174, 180, 183, 186, 190,
193 197, 200, 202, 216, 225, 232, 239,
245 250, 258, 275, 287, 290, 310, 313,
31 43 50, 60.— Anderson, 67—84, 93,
1 10, 237, 256, 311, 352, 403, 404, 423,
449 462, 483, 464 App. v. Contents-
Parents, 10 ; ii. 65, 100 ; iii. 32.
Spang's nephews, John and William, in.
382.
Spang, Mrs. iii. 16.
Spanheim, Frederick, ii. 115, 180, 197,
265, 288, 311, 324, 327, 342, 365, 378 ;
^ iii. 67, 104, 461 App. 521.
Spittal, Thomas, person of Falkirk, 426.
Spottiswood, John, Archbishop of St. An
drews, Chancellor of Scotland, 4-9, 10,
17-19, 33, 41, 45, 47, 50, 55, 66, 70, 73,
75, 78, 87, 90, 93, 94, 97, 105, 129, 148,
152, 154, 208, 424, 428, 429, 437, 438,
440, 442-444, 447, 448, 452, 459-466 ;
iii. 403, 529.
Spottiswood, Sir Robert, president of the
Court of Session, 47, 48, 50, 70, 75, 76,
88, 93, 221, 276, 279, 385, 425, 429 ;
ii. 125, 322 ; iii. 403.
Spottiswood of Darsie, Sir John, 425.
Spottiswood, John, superintendent, iii. 403.
Spreule, John, town-clerk of Glasgow, iii.
162, 163, 213, 241, 244, 249, 287, 362,
'363, 448.
Spreule, Robert, minister of Dalrymple, iii.
561.
Stamford, Stainford, Lord, 348, 349 ; ii.
57.
Stapleton, 358.
Stapleton, Sir Philip, iii. 16, 19.
States-General, iii. 86, 90.
Star-Chamber, 280, 282.
Start, the, iii. 109, 116.
Sterline -». Stirling.
Sterne, Dr. ii. 148.
Sternhold, Thomas, iii. 525.
Sterry, Peter, ii. 110 ; iii. 125, 443.
Stewart of Blackball, Sir Archibald, 14,
145, 381-393, 448.
Stewart of Castlemilk, iii. 437.
Stewart of Chrystwall, James, 104.
Stewart of Goodtrees, Sir James, iii. 389.
Stewart of Grandtully, ii. 225.
Stewart of Minto, Sir Walter, 425.
Stewart, Andrew, ii. 50.
Stewart, Baillie, ii. 515.
Stewart, Barnard, ii. 316.
Stewart, Captain Walter, 194, 381 ii. 203,
209, 210.
Stewart, Dr. ii. 175, 202, 216, 288, 311,
327, 387; iii. 7, 79, 82.
Stewart, Henry, 337-340.
Stewart, James, provost of Glasgow, ii. 4.
Stewart, Sir James, provost of Edinburgh,
iii. 389, 400, 447, 544.
Stewart, John, ii. 163.
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INDEX OF NAMES.
Stewart, John, commissary of Dunkeld,
381-383, 391.
Stewart, John, provost of Ayr, 173.
Stewart, John, minister, iii. 561.
Stewart, Sir Lewis, 11, 65, 125, 126, 263,
380, 382.
Stewart, Patrick, minister in Bute, 170, 426.
Stewart, Richard, dean of Westminster,
ii. 437.
Stewart, Sir Robert, iii. 100.
Stewart, Walter, 377, 383, 388.
Stewart, Walter, minister of Kilpatrick,
426.
Stewart, William, 234, — provost of Glas
gow, ii. 12.
Stirling, Provost of, iii. 456.
Stirling, William Earl of, 7, 33, 45, 48,
74, 76, 425, 429-431, 436, 439, 443-
447, 453, 454, 474; iii. 530-532.— IJis
family, 76, 77.
Stirling of Ardoch, ii. 91.
Stirling of Garden, iii. 441, 456.
Stirling of Keir, Sir George, 44, 63, 123,
136, 144. 147, 266, 379, 381-384; ii.
475 ; iii. 394, 456.
Stirling, John, minister of Edinburgh, iii.
248, 280, 355, 446, 467.
Stirling, John, minister of Kilbarchan, 561.
Stobs, Laird of, iii. 174.
Stormont, Viscount, 425 ; ii. 91, 468.
Strachan, Colonel Archibald, iii. 107, 111-
113, 115, 118-124, 129, 132.
Strachan, William, minister of Old Aber
deen, iii. 182.
Strafford, Earl of, 189, 190, 192, 198,
247, 272-275, 279-286, 291, 295-305,
309, 311.—hisTrial, 313-353, 355; ii.40.
Strang, Dr. John, principal of the College
of Glasgow, 28, 63, 66, 105, 133-137,
170, 246, 268, 365, 374, 425, 476, 480-
483, 490 ; ii. 14, 37, 62, 71, 72, 86, 189,
270, 289, 322, 364, 377, 399, 404, 405,
412, 469; iii. 5, 32, 70, 93, 105, 150,
237, 242, 295, 311, 324, 382, 385, 402,
412, 416, 423, 432, 436, 454, 457.
Strang, William, regent in the College of
Glasgow, iii. 150.
Strichan «?. Eraser.
Strickland, Walter, envoy, ii. 169, 202, 218,
322, 327.
Stroud, Strode, 309, 330, 339.
Stronge, Mr. iii. 554.
Struthers, William, minister of Edinburgh,
402.
Struthers, Mrs. William, 96.
Stuart v. Stewart.
Suffolk, Earl of, iii. 539.
Summervaill v. Somerville.
Sundercomb v. Sindercomb.
Supplication against Service-Book, 13, 19,
21, 33, 54, 85, 174, 204, 215.
Sutie, George, iii. 382.
Sutherland, Earl of, 21, 82, 224, 492 ; ii.
234.
Swaine, Swan, Sweden v. Queen of, 190.
Swinton of Swinton, Sir John, iii. 114, 125,
249, 288, 314, 316, 361, 385, 430, 447.
Swinton, Lady, iii. 396, 433.
Swinton, A. 472.
Swintons, iii. 174.
Sydserfe, Sincerf, Archibald, iii. 36, 389.
Sydserfe, George, minister of Cockburns-
path, 150, 104, 426.
Sydserfe, Thomas, Bishop of Galloway, 7, 9,
11, 16, 37, 38, 51, 70, 72-75, 78, 87,
135, 150, 153, 276, 425, 448, 452, 464 ;
iii. 390, 406.— Bishop of Orkney, 486.
Sydserfe, Thomas, iii. 468. — Diurnaller,454.
TABLES, The, 38, 39, 102.
Tanner, Jesuit, ii. 290.
Tarbet v. Mackenzie.
Tan-as, Earl of, 438.
Tate, Mr. ii. 237, 333, 359, 388, 393 ; iii.
199, 326.
Taillour, James, minister ; iii. 561.
Taylor, Dr. Jeremy, iii. 400, 406, 452 App.
Taylor, William, minister, London, iii. 230.
Temple, Lady, ii. 303, 489.
Temple, Dr. Thomas, ii. 110, 236.
Tennent, John, parson of Calder, 425.
Terens, Tirens, Mr. ii. 178, 357, 387.
Teviotdale, Sheriff of, v. Douglas.
Thesaurer, Treasurer, ii. 263, v. Lindsay.
Traquair.
Thesaurer Depute, ii. 68, v. Carmichael,
Sir James, Sir Daniel.
Thomasius, ii. 275.
Thomson, — Edinburgh, iii. 91.
Thomson, Alexander, minister, Edinburgh,
78, 137, 150.
INDEX OF NAMES.
625
Thomson, Sir Thomas, 44.
Thomson, William, Town-Clerk of Edin
burgh, iii. 174, 366, 389, 398, 399, 419.
Thorndyke, Herbert, iii. 400, 444.
Thurloe, John, secretary, iii. 342, 347,
350, 359, 362, 386, 397, 399, 431, 475,
579.
Titus, Captain Silas, iii. 101, 428, 431.
Tofts, Belsches Lord, ii. 79 ; iii. 367.
Toleration, ii. 226, 230, 234-237, 241-250,
253, 261 ; iii. 340, 392, 393, 430.
Tombes, John, minister, ii. 342 ; iii. 227,
237, 285.
Torphichen, John, Lord, iii. 35, 54.
Torstenson, General, ii. 81.
Towie v. Barclay.
Traill, Mr. ii. 493.
Traill, Robert, minister of Edinburgh, iii.
56, 248, 258, 276, 279, 280, 296, 355,
446, 546, 568.
Tran, James, 234 ; ii. 12 ; iii. 368, 437.
Traquair, John, Earl of, 4, 6-8, 11, 14,
16-18, 22, 25, 37-51, 54-61, 64-66, 69-
72, 74, 75, 79, 81, 84, 97, 120, 123-132,
194, 195, 220.— Commissioner, 224,247,
261, 263, 277, 279, 280, 283. 284, 290,
317, 340, 341, 357, 359, 374, 278, 384,
425, 434, 435, 440, 445-448, 452, 456-
464, 487 ; ii. 59, 60, 64, 78, 80, 103,
124, 125, 141, 515 ; iii. 7, 32, 35, 413.
Treaty v. Breda. Hague. Uxbridge.
Trennant, ii. 178.
Treves, Trier, Elector of, 3.
Trewman, 206, 338.
Trochrig v. Boyd.
Trotter, John, iii. 102.
Trump, Martin, admiral, ii. 473.
Tuckney, Dr. Anthony, ii. 198 ; iii. 310.
Tullibardine, Earl of, 123, 205 ; ii. 225,
420-422.
Turner, Archibald, iii. 414.
Turner, Sir James, iii. 457, app.
Tweeddale, Earl of, iii. 354, 430.
Twislington, Colonel, iii. 259.
Twisse, Dr. William, prolocutor of the
Westminster Assembly, 303 ; ii. 89,
101, 107-109, 121, 184-186, 313.
Tyler, Evan, printer, 441 ; ii. 475 ; in.
214, 510, 549.
Tyrconnell, Earl of, 336.
U
UNIFORMITY, Covenanted, iii. 87, passim.
VOL. III.
Uniformity, Act of, iii. 485, 486.
Union of Protesters and Resolutionists,
iii. 177, 179-186, 251, 276-280, 296,
297, 430.
Union of Protestants v. Dury, John, 9.
Universities, (Scotish), 299 ; ii. 46 ; iii.
64,199, 205, 327, 402, 449, o. Aberdeen.
Edinburgh. Glasgow. St. Andrews.
Universities, Dutch, 9 ; iii. 449, v.
Foreign Ecclesiastical matters.
Universities, English v. Cambridge. Ox
ford.
Urquhart of Cromartie, Sir Thomas, 425.
Usher, James, Archbishop of Armagh,
287, 309, 329, 332, 338, 339, 341.
Uxbridge, Treaty of, ii. 249, 261 ; iii. 348.
VANE, Vaine, Sir Harrie, 72, 204, 263,
286, 302, 317- 341, 342, 345 ; ii. 89,
104, 117, 133, 135, 136, 141, 145, 14<>.
299, 230, 231, 235, 237-240, 280, 302,
487, 490 ; iii. 16, 19, 178, 426, 430,
431, 437, 438, 440, 441, 471.
Vane, Sir Harrie, senior, ii. 121, 299, 302.
— Thesaurer, 341, 345 ; iii. 358..
Valkenier, Dr. iii. 82.
Valle, (Walams ?) 9.
Vallet, (Valois ?) Due de, 316.
Vedelius, Nicolas, ii. 371.
Veitch, Vetch, James, iii. 50, 239, 241,
254, 259-264, 313,— minister of Mauch-
lin, 487.
Veitch, David, minister of Govan, iii. 434.
Veitch, John, minister of Roberton, iii.
724, 561.
Vermeuden, General, ii. 276.
Verney (Vername), Sir Edmund, 215.
Vien, Vienna, 117.
Villiers, Lady Mary, 11.
Vincent, Nathaniel, iii. 553.
Vincent, Thomas, iii. 553.
Vines, Richard, ii. 110, 145, 148, 184,
198, 236, 415 ; iii. 304, 306, 307, 326.
Violet, Thomas, ii. 1.32, 133.
Voetius, Gisbertus, 9, 92, 357; ii. 72,
115, 165, 169, 175, 189, 202, 205, 218,
239, 240, 265, 327, 378 ; iii. 21, 70,
82, 101, 103, 267, 275, 281, 310, 311,
324, 369, 449.
Vossius, Gerard, ii. 311, 327, 365, 371,
378; iii. 67, 483.
4 K
626
INDEX OF NAMES.
W
WALES, Charles, Prince of, v. Charles II.
Walden, Mr. ii. 77, 100.
Walker, George, ii. 110, 111.
Walkinshaw of that ilk, Hi. 246.
Walkinshaw, John, 363, 420, 435, 581.
Wallace of Achans, younger, James, iii.
140.
Wallace of Oaigie, 37.
Wallace, Gulielmus, schoolmaster, iii. 403.
Wallace, Michael, minister, Kilmarnock,
14, 15, 63. 94, 104, 178, 426, 473.
Wallace, Robert, ii. 502.
Wallace, Robert, minister of Barnweill, ii.
62 ; iii. 134, 236, 279, 393, 420, 456,
Bishop, 486, 561.
Wallace, Sir William, ii. 314.
Waller, Sir William, ii. 56, 81-83, 99,
104, 107, 112-115, 118, 126, 131, 133,
140, 142, 151-156, 163, 166, 170-172,
178-182, 185-187, 190, 193, 200, 206,
213, 217, 223-231, 237, 484; iii. 17-
Wallop, Robert, ii. 488 ; iii. 471.
Walton, Waltham, Dr. Brian, iii. 304,
309, 310, 401, 449.
Wandesford, Christopher, depute of Ire
land, 281, 282.
Ward, John, minister, ii. 415.
Ward, Samuel, lecturer, 288, 309.
Wardlaw, Whartlaw, ii. 114.
Wardhouse, Lady, 161.
Warristone v. Johnstone, Sir Archibald.
Warristone, Lady, iii. 64.
Wanvick, Earl of, admiral, 274; ii. 43,
104, 133, 135, 140, 159, 163, 183, 185,
193, 238, 488 ; iii. 46, 527.
Watson, Robert, senior, minister, iii. 561.
Watson, Robert, minister of Cardross, iii.
436, 466, 561.
Watson, William, iii. 435
Waugh, John, minister of Borrowstouness,
iii. 228, 248, 253.
Waughton v. Hepburn.
Wedderburne v. Home.
Wedderburne, Sir Alexander, iii. 36.
Wedderburne, Alexander, minister of St.
Fillans, iii. 563.
Wedderburne, Alexander, toune-clerk,
Dundee, 63, 129, 269, 397.
Wedderburne, James, Bishop of Dum-
blano, 16, 22, 78, 87, 93, 167, 248,
421, 425, 430, 437, 452.
Weems, v. Wemyss.
Weir, John, minister of Dalserf, iii. 434.
Wemyss, John Earl of, 123, 147, 157,
359-376, 380, 425 ; ii. 45, 47.
Wemyss, Lady, iii. 438.
Wemyss, fiar of Bogie, J. 472.
Wemyss, canon-maker, 72.
Wemyss, James, commissary of St. An
drews, 426.
Wemyss, Matthew, minister of Canongate.
64,404.
Wemyss, Sir Patrick, iii. 103.
Wenman, ii. 303.
Wentford v. Wandesford.
Wentworth, Sir George, 341, 344.
Westfield, Thomas, a divine, 309.
Wetham, Colonel, iii. 439, 580, 582.
Whaley, Peter, iii. 533.
Whalley, Colonel, iii. 427, 438.
Wharton, Lord, 290, 344 ; ii. 117, 130,
133, 145, 236, 298, 299, 302, 344, 475,
488 ; iii. 539.
Whartlaw v. Wardlaw.
Whitaker, Jeremy, ii. 415 ; iii. 235, 302,
326.
Whitaker, Dr. William, 358.
White, John, assessor in Westminster
Assembly, ii. 89, 108.
White, John, M.P. ii. 294 ; iii. 445, 533.
Whitebank, Quhytbank, v. Pringle.
Whiteford, Dr. Walter, Bishop of Brechin,
7, 41, 65, 70, 72, 74, 78, 93, 97, 105,
135, 151, 154, 288, 425, 437, 447, 448,
454, 458, 460.
Whitelock, Bulstrode, 337-342 ; ii. 303 ;
iii. 440.
Whittingham, William, iii. 526, 527.
Wigton, Earl of, 38, 44, 50, 107, 123, 145,
168, 385, 424, 448, 452, 458, 462; ii.
468,469; iii. 212, 220. 456.
Wilkie, James, 484, 491.
Wilkie, John, iii. 204, 224, 226, 231, 407-
Wilkie, Robert, minister of Glasgow, 13,
19, 27, 37, 63, 104, 105, 133, 170, 42C,
484,491; ii. 5; iii. 368.
Wilkie, Thomas, minister, 146.
Wilkie, William, minister of Govan, 1, 28,
31, 62, 65, 88, 106, 134, 479-491 ;
ii. 87, 189, 339, 348, 377, 399, 404,
412 ; iii. 92, 368.
Wilks, Colonel, iii. 438.
Willems, Mynheere, 101, 507.
Williams, John, Bishop of Lincoln, 273,
293 ; ii. 112 ; iii. 530.
INDEX OF NAMES.
627
Williams, Roger, ii. 191, 212, 397.
Willoughby of Parham, Lord, 385; ii.
153 ; iii. 101, 539.
Wilmot, General Major, 257, 327 ; iii. 88.
Wilson, Adam, iii. 163.
Wilson, Matthew, iii. 163.
Wilson, Mr. iii. 537.
Winch, Mr. iii. 295.
Winchester, Marquis of, 315.
Windiebanks, secretary, 247, 275, 278,
282, 286, 291.
Winram of Libberton, George, 115, 187 ;
ii. 98, 418, 431 ; iii. 37, 88, 99-103,
513-524, 541-544.
Winram, Robert, depute-clerk of the As
sembly, 129.
Winter, Sir Thomas, Queen's secretary,
295
Winton, Earl of, 81, 213, 424, 448, 452,
458, 462.
Wintoun, (Winram 2) G. ii. 46.
Wisheart, Dr. George, minister of St. An
drews, 151, 168, 425 ; iii. 31, 486.
Wisheart, Dr. William, minister of Leith,
• 76,97,425.
Wiseman, Thomas, 343.
Wither, Mr. ii. 371.
Withrington, Sir Thomas, iii. 359,
Wodrow, William, iii. 162, 163.
Wood, iii. 414.
Wood, James, minister of St. Andrews,
ii. 406; iii. 88, 93-96, 99, 106, 110,
123, 127, 133, 140, 167, 173, 176-183,
186-189, 199, 210-214, 241, 248, 262,
277, 279-281, 285, 295-297, 316, 321
326, 335, 344, 352, 354, 362, 376, 387,
414, 418-420, 449, 468, 513-521.
Wood, Patrick, 79.
Worcester, Earl of, 304, 310.
Wotham v. Wetham.
Wren, Matthew, Bishop of Ely, 349, 351 ;
iii. 400, 405, 444.
Wright, Edward, minister of Clackman
nan, 147, 367,— of Glasgow, 368; ii.
3-5, 86, 270, 377, 399 ; iii. 456.
Wale, Mr. ii. 136.
Wright, James, minister, ii. 52.
Wright, Robert, minister, iii. 257.
Wyllie, John, iii. 162, 164.
Wylie, Thomas, minister of Borg, ii. 491,
— of Mauchlin, iii. 53.
YAIR, Zaire, William, 232.
Yester, Lady, ii. 6.
Yester, Lord, 123, 211, 384, 472 ; ii. 440,
443.
Yester, Master of, ii. 45.
York, Bishop of, v. Neill.
York, Dutchess of, iii. 445.
York, Duke of, 294, 315, 351 ; ii. 138,
297, 416 ; iii. 439, 442, 445.
Young, an English officer, iii. 438.
Young, Eliza, Mrs. George, ii. 190.
Young, Gavin, a minister, iii. 547.
Young, George, minister of Glasgow, 52,
373, 394 ; ii. 39, 46, 53, 55, 61, 95, 160,
171, 173, 179, 189, 196, 212, 231, 270,
295, 318, 335, 392, 402, 406, 410, 412,
415, 513; iii. 142, 150, 162, 182, 184,
194, 197, 208, 212-219, 238-241, 275-
278, 317, 347, 350, 372, 383, 394, 433.
Young, Dr. James, Dean of Winchester,
443.
Young, James, printer, iii. 533.
Young, John, professor of divinity, Glas
gow, ii. 190, 290 ; iii. 150, 211, 228-243,
259, 285, 312, 351, 357, 372, 416, 419,
432, 456, 458, 460, 471, 474.
Young, Patrick, regent, iii. 239, 241.
Young, Robert, printer, 436, 439, 442 ;
ii. 475.
Young, Robert, minister of Rutherglen,
iii. 142, 194, 296, 314.
Young, Dr. Thomas, 366 ; ii. 110, 118,
140, 148, 336 ; iii. 302, 306.
ZAIRE v. Yair.
Zealand, Synod of, ii. 202.
Zester v. Yester.
Zurich, &c. Ministers of, ii. 431-433.
ERRATA IN THE INDEX.
Adair of Kinhilt, rend 147; in. 111.
Anderson v. Spang, iii. 67-84.
ilaillie, Mrs., 353 ; iii. 237, 308.
Baillie, Robert, &c. add 578-584.
BeU, John, provest, Sic. add 579, 580.
Belsches of Tofts, for 367 read iii. 367.
Blackball, Andrew, 85.
Blair, Alexander, iii. 570, 580.
Blair, Hugh, minister, iii. 368.
Boyd of Trochrig, add 577-
Broghill, Lord, add 573, 574.
Bute, Sheriff of, 170.
Campbell of Lawers v. Lawers.
Carmichael, Sir James, add ii. 68.
Carstaires, John, read iii. 120, &c., 580, 584.
Charles II, for 54, read 52.
Cromwell, Oliver, &c.add 573, 576, 579-582.
Desborovv, Lord-Keeper, add 580-582.
Dickson, Dick, David, add 572, 577. 578.
Douglas, Robert, &c. add 572-574, 578.
Durham, James, add 582-584.
Fletcher, David, for 494 read 4JH .
Gillespy, Patrick, add 574-582.
Guthrie, John, Bishop, &c. insert 425.
Kinhilt v. Adair.
Lamb, Bishop of. Galloway, 367.
Lincoln, Earl of, iii. 539.
Lindsay of Belstane v. Constable.
Lockhart, John, iii. 579, 582.
Mackay, Alaster, for 382 read ii. 382.
Mayne, Magnus, read ii. 8, 14, 72 ; iii. 403.
Murray, Bishop of, for 42 read 425.
Ramsay, Andrew, provost, &c. add 570.
Sharp, James, minister of Crail, add 573,
574, 578-584.
Sharp, Patrick, iii. 577.
Sharp, William, add 579, 580.
Simpson, Mathias, add 574.
Strang, Dr. John, add 577.
Swinton of Swinton, Sir John, add 580-582.
ERRATA IN THE LETTERS.
VOL. I.
311 17
Simonds
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For
Read
345 13
dangling jangling ?
35
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feared ; and
432 4
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20th
19th
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84
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Reafons (E).
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87
19
nouft
nocht
79 29
Hotham's
Hothams
91
17
ihotts
Ihott
241 note
Ayrshire
Argyleshire
92
33
flouft
flocht
296 15
Thomas
John
93
26
bygons
bygane
344 note
Godwin
Goodwin
94
20
England
England (S)
108
3
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VOL. Ill
.
128
3
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difeafe
105 24
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friends there
130
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109 3
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cunning
140
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131
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143
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in craving
136 note
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Roberton of
171
22
their
thir
Bedlaw
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171
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24. Tuefday
179 15
founder
founded
250
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241 note
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Scottish church
250
32
meetings
meetings (B) ;
286&2S7
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253
12
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Ad (A),
297 31
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335 14,
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280
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281
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469 25
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